After wasting four to five years securing a public relations degree (by the way after learning about the father of public relations and nephew of Zigmund Freud I dispise Edward Bernays) it would have better to have started a busines while young. If unsuccessful, one could of bounced back on youth. Continue your efforts to become successful in the passions you desire. I respect highly respect your father and Doug Casey's information. Just one thing word of advise. Always, always remember the entities in Geneva Switzerland are mankind's enemy. Have a successful first flight in Uraguay!
I have a couple book suggestions for you. Although I’m quite sure you have more than enough from your father and Doug, but if you have time and you’ve not read them, I highly recommend:
1. Investment Biker, by Jim Rogers. It’s a fantastic book about his travels across the globe on a motorcycle. It’s both an adventure story and treatise on how political systems drive economic outcomes
2. Trust, by Francis Fukuyama. This book explains the relationship between culture and economic outcomes.
Together they explain everything you need to know about the subject If I were to teach an economic development course these would be required reading.
You’re on a great path, Max. It’s one I felt compelled to take at 18, though a little more internationally controversial than yours, which I’m sure makes your parents happy your NOT taking the extremely dangerous path I took.
If you do got back to school as I did, you’ll treat it like my dad, who went after he got back from the Korean War, and me, as returning adult students: He for engineering, me for journalism. A side benefit was that my prior 10 years as a combat photographer afforded me credits toward my graduation, getting me out in under three years, when classmates complained they couldn’t get out in five. To me uni was just another trade school, as my maturity was already defined by real-life experiences, as compared to theoretical (no extreme life-death repercussions) of the first two years of undergraduate study.
Let me know when you’re on your way up to Alaska. You might not leave if you have the same passion for bush and seaplane flying I do—Semper Fi! ✈️🦅🌎⚓️🇺🇸
Max...you are doing great; and I agree that you should put off anything of great expense (ocean race), until you are a bit more settled back home, and decide what to do with your funds. Plenty of time for that! Time to read "The Road Less Traveled" by Robert Frost. My favorite poem, even though I like Emerson. Keep us informed!
Thank you for sharing these thoughts and this path forward. As a homeschooling Mom, I have a 16 year old son who’s tired of having everything explained to him and being lectured to, he says to me mom - “I just want to DO things, I’m tired of hearing and reading about them I just want to get out there and experience it”. He’s getting to the age where people are asking - isn’t he going to go to college, and when I say no, people are quietly shocked. I’m not sure what path he’ll take but I’m hoping he’ll have the opportunity to read this book, as he starts to make his way in the world. My final class that I will be teaching him is personal finance/Austrian Economics. Which is the class I wish I’d been given before I started my own life. Thanks for posting this! I second the Jim Roger’s Book too! Great read.
After wasting four to five years securing a public relations degree (by the way after learning about the father of public relations and nephew of Zigmund Freud I dispise Edward Bernays) it would have better to have started a busines while young. If unsuccessful, one could of bounced back on youth. Continue your efforts to become successful in the passions you desire. I respect highly respect your father and Doug Casey's information. Just one thing word of advise. Always, always remember the entities in Geneva Switzerland are mankind's enemy. Have a successful first flight in Uraguay!
I have a couple book suggestions for you. Although I’m quite sure you have more than enough from your father and Doug, but if you have time and you’ve not read them, I highly recommend:
1. Investment Biker, by Jim Rogers. It’s a fantastic book about his travels across the globe on a motorcycle. It’s both an adventure story and treatise on how political systems drive economic outcomes
2. Trust, by Francis Fukuyama. This book explains the relationship between culture and economic outcomes.
Together they explain everything you need to know about the subject If I were to teach an economic development course these would be required reading.
Good luck with the rest of your preparation
You’re on a great path, Max. It’s one I felt compelled to take at 18, though a little more internationally controversial than yours, which I’m sure makes your parents happy your NOT taking the extremely dangerous path I took.
If you do got back to school as I did, you’ll treat it like my dad, who went after he got back from the Korean War, and me, as returning adult students: He for engineering, me for journalism. A side benefit was that my prior 10 years as a combat photographer afforded me credits toward my graduation, getting me out in under three years, when classmates complained they couldn’t get out in five. To me uni was just another trade school, as my maturity was already defined by real-life experiences, as compared to theoretical (no extreme life-death repercussions) of the first two years of undergraduate study.
Let me know when you’re on your way up to Alaska. You might not leave if you have the same passion for bush and seaplane flying I do—Semper Fi! ✈️🦅🌎⚓️🇺🇸
Great update, Maxim, and agree about the Hannibal course and Emerson quote. Pleased the book is almost done. Look forward to the finished product.
Max...you are doing great; and I agree that you should put off anything of great expense (ocean race), until you are a bit more settled back home, and decide what to do with your funds. Plenty of time for that! Time to read "The Road Less Traveled" by Robert Frost. My favorite poem, even though I like Emerson. Keep us informed!
Thank you for sharing these thoughts and this path forward. As a homeschooling Mom, I have a 16 year old son who’s tired of having everything explained to him and being lectured to, he says to me mom - “I just want to DO things, I’m tired of hearing and reading about them I just want to get out there and experience it”. He’s getting to the age where people are asking - isn’t he going to go to college, and when I say no, people are quietly shocked. I’m not sure what path he’ll take but I’m hoping he’ll have the opportunity to read this book, as he starts to make his way in the world. My final class that I will be teaching him is personal finance/Austrian Economics. Which is the class I wish I’d been given before I started my own life. Thanks for posting this! I second the Jim Roger’s Book too! Great read.
I can relate to your son. The best education is to get out and do things in the real world. Looking forward to see what he does!
A Pyrrhic victory, eh?