If you had the choice to go back, would you go to college again? Or make your own path? Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) shares with us the insightful talk he had with his 18-Year-Old about not going to college, giving him different perspectives on if he chose one path or the other. He also talks about the cost of college vs. the opportunity cost of going to college, choosing the path that gives you long-term success, investing in skills and learnings, skill-stacking, and accepting that failure is part of the process.
Welcome to The Game Podcast where we talk about how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, and keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons we have learned along the way to $100M in sales. We've got roll-up-your-sleeves kind of hustle with a little bit of cleverness and a lot of heart.
Timestamps:
(5:00) - If Alex were to restructure the education system, the majors would be according to the departments of a business because those are the areas where you’ll be hired
(11:11) - Choose the path that will guarantee you long-term success. You might suck at the beginning, but that’s just part of it. The more repetitions you do, the less you will fail
(17:12) - Do what you love and hone that skill. Once you’ve perfected it, pass on your learnings to others who will benefit from you. The best people in the world are actually self-taught because they treated the world as their oyster
(21:11) - After deciding not to go to college, here’s what you can do: research and apply to as many companies as possible. You also want to let them know good reasons why you want to work despite lacking a degree. In between, invest in courses, mentors, etc. that will help you grow your experiences
(31:25) - You create your own access to these mentors because of your hunger to grow. With this, you have to understand that then you're gonna have some imperfect advice from some mentors and some might even say no to you. At the end of the day, make these mentors feel like their teachings were worth sharing
(36:25) - If you think about it, this is actually skill-stacking: there’s the skill of marketing, the skill of working the applications to get the interview, actually doing the interview, assessing the other person in the interview, onboarding and training these new hires, and manage them & continue to increase their performance
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