Uncle Eric Talks About Personal, Career, Financial Security

Description Product Details Reviews (0) Uncle Eric Talks About Personal, Career, and Financial Security In this extensively revised and expanded second edition of Uncle Eric Talks About Personal, Career, and Financial Security, Uncle Eric introduces the concept of models. Models (or paradigms) are how people think; they are how we understand our world. Models help us recognize and use the information that is important and bypass that which is not. To achieve success in our careers, investments, and every other part of our lives, we need sound models. In this book, Mr. Maybury introduces the models he has found most useful (Economics and Higher Law). Using the epistolary style of writing (using letters to tell a story), Mr. Maybury plays the part of an economist (Uncle Eric) writing a series of letters to his niece or nephew (Chris). Using stories and examples, Mr. Maybury gives interesting and clear explanations of topics that are generally thought to be too difficult for anyone but experts. Mr. Maybury warns, “beware of anyone who tells you a topic is above you or better left to experts. Many people are twice as smart as they think they are, but they’ve been intimidated into believing some topics are above them. You can understand almost anything if it is explained well.” This is the first book in the Uncle Eric series and, while designed to stand alone, it also provides an excellent foundation for Maybury’s other books. Table of Contents Uncle Eric’s Model of How the World WorksStudy Guide AvailbleAuthor’s Disclosure Part One: How the Mind Works1. How We Understand Our World2. Building Mental Pictures3. Sorting Data4. Where is the Evidence?5. How to Learn or Teach Models6. Two Highly Important Models7. History Without Models8. A Model for Selecting Models9. Does it Predict?10. A Way to Test a Model You Are Not Qualified to Test11. Beware of Tautology12. How to Control People13. Cognitive Dissonance14. How to Stop Learning15. Automatic Evil16. Models Tend to Merge17. How to Get Started Learning Models Part Two: The Best Model for Success18. What is Success?19. A Short History of Models for Success20. Another Mouth to Feed21. A Model Born of Desperation22. Making Your Model Work23. How to Acquire a Business24. What Kind of Millionaire Do You Want to Be?25. Savings and Investments26. Social Security27. Real Estate and Debt28. Investment Advisors29. Negative Real Interest Rates30. How to Keep What You Have Earned31. Summary AppendixBibliography and Suggested ReadingGlossaryAbout Richard J. MayburyIndex Reviews “Uncle Eric Talks About Personal, Career, and Financial Security by Richard J. Maybury, and all of Maybury’s Uncle Eric series of books on economics, geopolitics, justice, and history…are excellent educational experiences for both children and adults. Just the discussion of the role of ‘models’ in the functioning of the human mind [in] the first book is worth the whole set. While this discussion is not about science, it describes perfectly the functioning of the minds of good scientists. They do not memorize facts against their models – revising the models and checking the facts as they proceed.”  —Dr. Arthur B. Robinson, President and Research Professor, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, commenting on the previous edition of Uncle Eric Talks About Personal, Career, and Financial Security “Homeschooling parents and children can gain much from the wisdom of Mr. Maybury. Uncle Eric Talks About Personal, Career, and Financial Security will help young people get started on a more prosperous life, and it will help their parents see where improvements can be made in their own lives. This outstanding book is just a starting point for study with its many recommended additional resources. Begin with it and move through the Uncle Eric series for a complete four year, high school study of economics, government, business, ‘life skills,’ and current events.”  —Martha Robinson, Reviewer for HomeschoolChristian.com