A Gift to Our Children - by Jim Rogers

Jim Rogers, an investor and financial commentator. He is also a co-founder, along with George Soros of the "Quantum Fund".

He has written a book - A Gift to Our Children : A father's lesson for life & investing. It is interesting to learn from him about life and investing from the book. In a format of twelve letters, he listed out his experiences to teach the children. The following is a summary of the book.

• Don't be affected by others
• Focus on what you love
• The common sense isn't that common
• Keeping your eyes open to the whole world
• To study philosophy and to learn cerebration
• To study the history
• It's a Chinese century, so to learn Chinese
• Knowing yourself indeed
• To recognise changes and to embrace them
• Facing the future
• To do something different from everybody does
• The luck is just happening to whom keeping working very hard.