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WotD: Educated guess
Two things in life are vital to being successful: knowledge and experience.
If a person possesses both of these things in the correct amounts, they should be able to make educated guesses about the future and prepare accordingly.
An educated guess is much different than a pure guess.
An educated guess is a guess based on accumulated knowledge and experience.
When someone makes a guess, they have no idea what they are doing, so they make a choice based on nothing at all.
There is no rhyme or reason to what they decide.
When someone makes an educated guess, they are still guessing, but this time, it is based on the knowledge and experience that they have accumulated.
Due to this, their assumption is likely to be correct.
I’m not saying success is guaranteed, and I’m not defining what success is.
All I am saying is that it is crucial to be able to make an educated guess about what the future holds.
No one can predict the future with 100% accuracy, but history does tend to repeat itself.
So, to make an educated guess, a person needs 1) knowledge and 2) experience.
How do we get them?
Well, read because reading is fantastic.
If you read every day, I promise you the world will make more sense.
You will be better able to connect the dots and make educated guesses as to what will happen and how to prepare for it.
The experts knew for a long time that there was a recession around the corner.
They didn’t know where the corner was or when we would turn a corner after it, but they knew it was coming, and they built a rainy-day fund for themselves.
Now is the time for you to make an educated guess and prepare for a recession, perhaps a deep and dark one.
Reduce your expenses now, and put some money aside.
It’s going to be a rough ride.
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The higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100, the easier the passage is to read.