The bold title is meant for the westerners - especially Americans.

Americans, say thank you to the chinaman.

Can you imagine how complicated is our financial system nowadays? people from accross the globe are not unrelated strangers. they can, and already made a lot of differences in your life. and guess what, this include your home mortgage! chinese was used to recognized as villain in the west as made-in-china products are always ridiculous cheap and it destroy westerners local market balance.

Well, not now anymore. you should in fact thanks chinese for paying your mortgage nowadays!

Want to know…

• Why you should thank the Chinaman?
• Why Chinese is paying your mortgage?
• How Chinese is paying your mortgage>
• What People’s Bank of China has to do with your mortgage from J.P. Morgan?

Then you should kill your office hours with some readings here at Fool.com: Some Chinese Guy Is Paying Your Mortgage.

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You wouldn’t be listening to your favourite author if there’s no Internet connection and cheap VoIP calls.

However, fact is, there’s is plenty of cheap VoIP call services around and Internet connection wasn’t much of a problem nowadays. live call conferences nowadays are MUCH cheaper than you think - chances are it might cost $0 with little condition.

One of my favourite author/web marketer - Seth Godin - is setting up a live call conference on this coming April 9th. Join this conference call on and learn directly from Seth Godin himself.

Anyone who bought the book and is interested are free to join in; but the calls are specially designated for entrepreneurs, small business owners and marketing professionals in all industries.

More details here about Meatball Sundae Live Call.

Just about every life concept we learned in schools are wrong. from exam strategy (scan and answer the easiest question first) to classroom behaviour (sit and keep quiet like everybody else); from student evaluations (6B is better than 2A and 4E) to teaching method (follows what teacher said is always right); from attitude shaping (mistakes are bad and quiting is worse) to financial senses (study hard get a good job and you’ll be rich).

Everything just seems not so right at school.

Don’t believe me? try to look around. do you care if American Idol Carrie Underwood got an ‘E’ for her history? do you care much if NBA stars Kevin Garnett cant do piano? what if I Capital Biz icon Tan Teng Boo failed Biology in his SPM, will you stop buying ICAP stocks? guess the answers are of course ‘NO’. now, who face more failure thru out his life - Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein or you? who currently makes more money - a Harvard fall-out Bill Gates or a PHD title holder from Harvard?

While the school train us to be average (do as what others doing), our community rewards those who’re willing to be different. you gotta be the ‘best’ in something, you gotta stand out from the rest in certain field - as Seth said ‘taste like chicken’ wasn’t a compliments and being average is just too risky to be.

Reading ‘The Dip’ gave me the quite same feeling when i first read ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’. while ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ talks about money, Seth Godin’s ‘The Dip’ talks about being the best of the world and quiting. the book’s kind of easy to be read - it’s short, it’s printed in large font size (unlike The World is Flat!) and it’s languauge is easy to be understood. however, the book’s not for those who can’t accept new ideas. as said, it’s against every little thing we learned about life in school. a book talks about quitting - if this’s not revolutional, what is?

So hey, if you wanna find out why being the best of the world matters so much; why quitting sometime is the best strategy? when should we quit; what makes quiting a smart choice; what’s a dip and what’s a cua da sac; go read Seth Godin’s The Dip.

P/S: Seth Godin do runs a little blog about the book here but it’s rather quiet over there as he rarely update it now.