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Business-Based Learning For Teenagers Take responsibility for your own education. In most schools, most of your work for all those years went right into the trash can. Yes, you may have learned something, and if you did, what you learned had value. But think about this: would a stranger, walking in off the street, have paid you for the work you did because they wanted it for themselves? Thing about this as well: if you got a 95% on that paper you threw in the trash can, you imagined you did pretty well. And so did everyone else. But what if you got a hair cut and the barber did 95% of it correctly, but messed up badly on the other 5%? What would you do? You would be angry and embarrassed; you would demand your money back or insist the hair cutter do it again at his or her own expense. You would certainly not go back. That's the real world! In reality, a 95 or even a 98% job is a terrible failure, one that no customer would accept. Would you buy a new car that was 99% perfect, with just one deep scratch down the center of the hood? On the other hand, let's say you got a 60% on your paper. "Man, I failed," you thought. You were embarrassed and tried to forget all about it. But in the business world, failure is your ally and teacher. In fact, as you build a micro-business, you will expect to fail, and you learn to do it quickly, and then keep changing what you are doing until it works. Thomas Edison failed hundreds of times as he tried to invent a useful light bulb. But he still tried again, finally got it right, and changed the world. In other words, both high and low grades at school fail to give you real information. The worst possible thing you learned from all those years of work that went into the trash can is that work done for "learning" has little value; no one will pay you a dime for it. Business-based learning is different. Business is, first of all, a service. You are seeking to add value to the lives of others. Profit is the increase that you bring to the world as you serve. The more you serve and add value to people's lives, the greater return you will see. Providing value for others becomes a fantastic reason to learn. You see an immediate return from what you do. When your work is valuable, it makes you feel that you are valuable. Micro-business is a wonderful way to learn. You don't have to make a lot of money, because your primary purpose is to learn. But then, who knows, if you learn your stuff, you just might make more money than you imagine! Some teenagers will bring benefit to the lives of many people and will make a whole lot of money as they do. You could easily be one of them. Build your own business with Micro-Business for HighSchoolers, a nine month course that guides step-by-step in the creation of a real-world business, while learning a whole lot. This course could easily become a central part of your high school education. Check it out at http://www.YguideAcademy.com/MicroBusiness.html. Copyright 2009 by YGuide Publishing. Freely use without changes, including links. http://www.yguide.org Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Daniel_Yordy
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