Blog #6: Letter to the author

Dear Seymour Schulich,

I recently read and thoroughly enjoyed your book Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons. You have been very successful in life and I appreciate you sharing your lessons with your readers. Reading this collection of lessons has given me some great ideas for my future endeavours in life and in the business world. I feel that this information will be quite relevant in the future even when new and improved technologies come into the working environment. I am writing to you with some questions about some of the aspects of your young life. I am currently in grade 11 attending Royal St. Georges College and I am starting to think about possible universities to attend. I am aware of the schools that you fund throughout Canada as I am very much intrigued by them. My friends and I have had much discussion on the subject of student’s primary degrees after finishing their first stint in university. Do the marks during these degrees determine what and where you will work for your life? Do you need to have phenomenal marks to get into law school or other such institutions? These are questions that many of us students have and that do not always have the clearest answer as obviously schools have different criteria when applying. In my opinion, I believe that no degree can have a bearing on what you want to do with your life. Obviously there are different companies that probably won’t hire you unless you have these diplomas but if you have the drive to become rich then you probably will be successful. I think that good people skills and great ideas go a long way. Way further than any grade on a paper will take you. This isn’t to say you don’t have to be shrewd in the business world because that is very important as well but if people enjoy working for or with you then your company will be successful. Let me know your thoughts Mr. Schulich. Your book was passed on to me from a successful uncle who once read it. I plan on doing the same thing with one of my children or nephews. I would love to discuss different aspects of your book the next time I write.

Thanks again.
Sincerely,

Matt Bunston