Hi, this Julian from DoingEnglish.com.
This is kind of a continuation from yesterday's video.
Kind of a continuation from this week's Doing English Plus session which I just finished
about ten minutes ago.
The idea of entrepreneurship, business skills ... It's funny, but I studied painting at
university.
It wasn't until long after I gave up on painting ... Pretty much gave up on arts.
Well, I gave up on art because I discovered other things that I wanted to do more.
I realized that if I wanted to be an artist, what I should have done is studied marketing
skills first.
I don't necessarily mean I should have taken business at university, because from what
I can tell business and advertising courses at university are pretty crap.
If I wanted to be an artist, I should have spent maybe as much if not more time learning
marketing skills than painting skills.
It doesn't actually matter how good of an artist you are, if you can't market your art
well, you're not going to get very far with it.
Of course, you have to have a certain level of artistic skill.
Still, it's certainly not everything.
This got me to thinking.
I mean, in yesterday's video and in today's Doing English Plus session, I talked about
the idea of people who have found themselves in a situation that they want to change.
They have thought outside of the box as it were, for a way to do that.
Kathy Hayes, I forget the name of the person who I talked about yesterday.
She did that by using eBay, selling the rubbish that she had around her house and eventually
turned that into a business.
There's another example.
A kid, fourteen, fifteen year old kid in the UK wanted to go to university.
His parents couldn't afford it, couldn't afford to send him to university.
He started a small business at school selling sweets to other students.
He actually got in quite a lot of trouble for doing it from the school, but he made
a lot of money: fourteen thousand pounds.
Enough to go to university.
It's this idea of thinking about the things we want in life and thinking of those things
from the point of view of an entrepreneur, as a businessman.
Thinking about what we need to do.
Thinking creatively about what we need to do to get those things.
Very, very interesting.
I believe that everybody is this day and age should be thinking this way.
In terms of their business or entrepreneurial goals.
Even if you're something like say, a teacher, you're still in business.
You're in the business of selling yourself, selling your services to the school.
No matter what it is that you do, you are in business.
Everybody, I believe now, needs some kind of business goal.
I use the word "business" in a very loose sense.
I think it's an essential part of living in the modern world.
Of course, for most people watching this channel ... In fact, for everybody watching this channel
... If not, I don't understand why you're watching it.
For everybody watching this channel, English is going to be a huge part of that.
I said we talked about this in today's Doing English Plus session, but the session was
much more than that.
In Doing English Plus we learn English skills and we support each other and we help each
other.
English is going to be a huge part of your business entrepreneurial goals, I think, because
English, I think it's safe to say that it can bring a lot of things to your life that
will never come if you don't have English.
I guess, in a way, that's not fair.
It isn't fair that people who don't speak English as a first language should have to
learn English if they want to, let's be honest, get ahead in the world.
It's not fair, but life isn't fair.
There we have it.
Which is why people like me, of course, are doing their best to help people like you to
achieve their dreams via English.
The first step for that is to go ahead and join the Doing English daily newsletter.
You can do that just by going down below this video, clicking on the link, and then putting
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You will also get the chance to join Doing English courses once you have joined the newsletter.
If you feel like you want to do some, please do.
I'll look forward to seeing you there.
Anyway, that's it from me today.
Just my little insight of the day.
Cheers.