💭 Knowledge is the one asset that can never be stolen. It grows with you, protects you, and becomes more valuable with time. Here is a story that captures this truth perfectly. At three in the morning, James and Sarah woke to the sound of breaking glass. By sunrise, burglars had taken almost everything the family owned. As they stood in the middle of their ransacked home, Sarah held James’s hand and whispered, “They didn’t take what matters most.” Two years earlier, James had been laid off at forty seven. With two teenagers heading to college and savings running low, he took a risk most people his age avoid. He invested the last of their money into retraining for an entirely different career. “Starting over at your age?” his brother had asked, half shocked, half skeptical. Yet the morning after the break-in, James sat at his computer doing work that had not even existed when he began his first career. He was solving problems for clients around the world. “Dad, aren’t you upset about all your stuff?” his daughter asked. James smiled. “Your grandpa used to say, ‘They can take your things, but they can’t take what you know.’” Socrates said something similar almost twenty five hundred years ago to a student who complained about the cost of learning. The safest vault for your most valuable assets is the one inside you. When their son later considered dropping out of college, James shared the lesson again. “What you learn multiplies. The coding language I studied opened my mind to systems, which led to consulting, which opened doors I couldn’t even have imagined.” “But college is so expensive,” his son replied. “The tuition is not only for the degree,” James said. “It’s for building a mind that survives change. Because everything will change.” Years later, when the market crashed and neighbors lost savings and homes, someone asked them, “How are you two so calm?” James pointed to his head and his heart. “Our most valuable assets are stored here and here.” At his retirement celebration, James raised his glass. “People ask how we made it through every challenge. The answer is simple. We invested in the only thing that cannot be stolen, cannot be devalued, and only grows richer with time… what we know and what we can do.” This is not only James and Sarah’s story. It is the story of anyone who chooses to invest in themselves. 📚 Every hour you learn. 🔧 Every skill you master. 🔥 Every challenge you overcome. These are deposits into the most secure investment on earth: your own mind. Unlike anything else, this investment carries no risk of loss and guarantees a lifetime of returns. 💡 So what will you invest in today #investment #knowledge #skills #hr #personalgrowth #jobs #learning #africa #careerdevelopment #mindset #IkoKaziKE