The Greatest Education: Flipping for Profit

12/12/19 • 23 min

The greatest foundation for learning sales, marketing, and business principles were the items I sold growing up. From spitball guns to sports cards to gum and eventually sneakers, textbooks, and golf clubs: I learned far more from selling those items than any financial lessons through school.

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The Greatest Education: Sports

What forms of education stand out apart from the normal education system?

Part 1 in this current Greatest Education series dives into how sports create a foundational form of education for kids.

Topics include:

How sports and specific skills aren't the ultimate goal of sports.

The social and mental aspects of sports: including teamwork, friendship, confidence, work ethic, practice, leadership, and more.

Lessons taught from playing sports.

The value of learning through something you enjoy, rather than something you have to do.

Seeing the results of the work you put in.

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Achieving a Lifelong Goal: Hiking the Appalachian Trail with Andrew Haverstick

As we head into the time of year where most people are reflecting on the past year and setting goals for the next year, Andrew Haverstick drops in to talk about achieving a goal he's dreamed of reaching since 5th grade!

Our conversation covers topics and adventures specific to the 2200 mile hike as well as life lessons learned along the way. Some of the topics that stand out:

The important influence of 5th grade teacher.

The greatest form of fitness that contributed to hiking (definitely not what I would have thought).

How overthinking has the potential to hold us back and how important it is to keep moving forward consistently whether on the trail or in our day to day life.

Sleeping on top of 8 inches of snow and fording creeks in Maine.

Hiking through the different seasons.

The benefits provided by hiking when dealing with the loss of a loved one.

The biggest thing he learned about himself along the way.

What it's like to be in rhythm with nature.

31 miles in a day!!!

Appreciating the small things... like showering!

Making friends with other hikers from all over the world.

WHO should hike the Appalachian trail?

Putting smaller inconveniences in perspective.

The BEST part of the trail!

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