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65. 
Increase Your Value  
In the new economy you now find yourself in, you will be compensated not by how hard you work but by how 
much value you add to the world around you. Think about it. If you are currently being paid twenty dollars an 
hour, this money is being given to you not simply because you showed up at your desk for those sixty minutes 
but because you have added twenty dollars’ worth of perceived value during those sixty minutes. So, the 
monetary reward you receive is determined not by how long you work but by how much value you add. 
This is why a brain surgeon is paid so much more than a McDonald’s employee. Is the brain surgeon a 
better person? Not necessarily. Is the brain surgeon smarter? Who knows? But one thing is certain: the brain 
surgeon has accumulated far more specialized knowledge and specific know – how than the McDonald’s 
employee. There are far fewer people who can do what the brain surgeon does and, as a result, the brain surgeon 
is perceived as far more valuable to the marketplace. This is why the brain surgeon is paid over ten times more 
than the person who flips burgers. Money simply becomes a symbol for how much value each person has added 
to the world at large. 
So to be paid more money in your work, you must add more value to the world. And the best way to 
begin adding value to the world is to start becoming a more valuable person. Acquire skills no one else has. 
Read books no one else is reading. Think thoughts no one else is thinking. Or, to put it another way, you cannot 
have all that you want if you remain the person you are. To get more from life, you need to be more in life. 

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66. 
Be a Better Parent  
The way you raise your children is the way you raise your future generations. Since few of us have had formal 
training in the fine art of parenting, most of us simply treat our children the way your parents treated us. We 
know of no other way to do it. 
Although being a parent is a great joy, it is also a privilege that involves tremendous responsibility. 
While I would do anything for my two children, that willingness is not enough. We need to develop the skills of 
excellent parents. We cannot just hope that the way we are raising our kids is the right way and pray that we 
will be lucky enough that they become thoughtful, caring and wise adults. We must take the initiative to 
improve our parenting abilities by attending seminars, reading books and listening to audiocassettes by the 
leading thinkers in this field. Then we must have the courage to keep trying to refine the ideas we learn in the 
laboratory of our own lives in order to find the parenting strategies that best suit our families. 
I know your life is busy and there is too much to do in too little time. But those miraculous years of your 
sons’ and daughter’s childhoods will never come again. And if you do not devote the time and effort to 
becoming the best parent you know you can be, one day you will deeply regret the lost opportunity. As one 
father who attended a seminar I gave in Toronto said, “When my son was growing up, he constantly asked me 
to give him piggyback rides. Though I knew how much he loved them, I was always too busy to play with him. 
I had reports to read or meetings to attend or calls to make. Now that he has grown up and left our home, I 
realized one thing: I would give anything in the world to give that little boy a piggyback ride.” 

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