Richard Krohn

October 7, 2020

Time Budget.

There are 168 hours in a week. How do you use them? First. You need to do a budget. Be honest. I am not saying […]
September 15, 2020

Survival.

It is inbuilt in all humans to Survive, Procreate and Believe. In the beginning of the 21st Century the need to survive was being sorely […]
September 15, 2020

Unearned sustainable income.

LIC’s. I thought it appropriate to go over my investment strategy. I am happy to have another look in 12 months and see whether it […]
September 10, 2020

Is there a continuum from Capitalism to Socialism?

Capitalism is an economic and political system in which a society’s means of production are held by private individuals or organisations and where products, prices, […]
September 10, 2020

Add Socialisation to the list.

The Parallel University teaches us that humans are constantly speaking to themselves inside their heads. The vast majority of those thoughts are negative, and it […]
September 10, 2020

Risk management and Liquidity.

September 10, 2020

Self-reliance + Resilience = Inequality.

We have established that only about 40% of the population, after taking out the young, 80% of retirees on a pension, the disabled, the unemployed […]
September 10, 2020

Transition from Income to Capital.

For most of history, capital has been king and income hard to come by. Since the industrial revolution, the world has been through a period […]
September 10, 2020

Resilience.

We have been talking about self-reliance; reliance on one’s own powers and resources rather than those of others, and I have come to the conclusion […]
September 10, 2020

List the Causes.

In a normal exercise, we would list all the causes of people not becoming self-reliant. We would then categorise those causes. My guess is that […]
September 10, 2020

Quantify the Problem.

Before deciding to solve a problem after you have defined it you need to quantify the problem. I started the video with the “only one […]
September 9, 2020

Self-reliance.

Self-reliance.   Self-support, self-sufficiency, self-sustenance, self-standing, independence, autarky. The starting point for the Centre of Self-reliance is the meaning of Self-reliance. It is more than […]
March 14, 2020

50 Things I have Learned

1 TeamWork To achieve really great things, it needs a team. In sport you need a coach, attacking players, defensive players and someone to organise […]
March 13, 2020

Committing to the Plan.

We are all great at making plans, not so great at following through on them. What about all the New year’s resolutions broken, the diets […]
March 13, 2020

Why a 90-year life needs a plan.

Up until now, it hasn’t been normal for humans to live to 90 years of age. It wasn’t that long ago that 50 was the […]
March 13, 2020

Welcome to The Parallel University

We live in a time like never before.  We have been isolated from the world as it was for thousands of years. We no longer […]