Hardly any investment or financial bloggers seriously talk about Human Asset as part of financial education. But, here. Uncle8888 keeps mentioning it. He realized it should be part of financial education. We can become rich and achieve financial independence through our human asset and NOT necessary through financial assets. When we are younger, our human asset is the most important asset that keeps producing sustainable and growing cash flow in the form of salaries, commissions, fees, bonuses, etc. Younger folks in their 20s; don't get overly excited over financial asset as your road to financial independence. Who knows you have been identified as the talent to be developed for your company's future leadership position. When we reach our late 30s or early 40s, most of us should already know deep in our heart that option of our human asset to achieve financial independence has expired as we cannot see ......