Traditional thinking is to college like water is to the ocean; they go hand in hand and this is why college will never be for entrepreneurs. College is where we are bred to conform and it prepares us for careers where we will always be under the authority of someone elses rules until we make the decision to break free of them.

Some people figured it out early, some figured it out later, and some will be too dumb to realize that they are a useless pawn in the grand scheme of a company.

This blog post will be an aimless rant of why I have a huge problem with college. There will be very little flow in this post, very little direction, and it will more or less be the sum of my thoughts.

What Is College For?

College is for

1. People who lack leadership skills
2. People who prefer to be average
3. People who would rather be led than lead
4. People who truly just want a normal job
5. People who want to end up teaching rather than doing
6. People who are either oblivious or refuse to believe that there are other options
7. People that are book smart rather than life smart
8. People who want to become doctors, lawyers, engineers, professional athletes, or anything in the medical field (in this case college is a must because it is the only place hwere you can really learn such things and succeed). This represents less than 8% of college students.

92% of people who attend college will end up having an average life at best; average meaning very little personal time, not much money saved up, lots of debt, and complete slaves to the system. Some people are completely oblivious to this fact and therefor perfectly happy in which case there is nothing wrong with that. Yet the vast majority of people will admit that they feel depressed, useless, and extremely stuck.

How Is The World Shaped?

The world is shaped by entrepreneurs. Everything you own, have ever owned, currently, use, or will use in the future was created by an entrepreneur. You will either work for these entrepreneurs or you will be one. If you want to work for one, go to college, if you want to be one start learning to think for yourself, question everything, and dedicate time to learning REAL LIFE SKILLS rather than the kind used to pass a Math or English final.

The Measure Of Success

We seem to have this idea of measuring success by how much money you have and how many things that you own. I would argue to say that this is a big part of it but it’s not everything.

If you truly want to be a master of your own life then you must master 4 things

1. Health: Being healthy enough to enjoy your wealth. Being healthy in mind, body, and spirit. This means watching what you eat, improving your mental state by staying positive and choosing not to worry or be stressed, and staying in shape by working out.
2. Wealth: Putting yourself in the position to earn the income that you desire to earn; $10K per month, $20K per month, $50K per month, $500K per month and so on. Real prosperity.
3. Love: Love in relationships, love in friendships, etc. Respecting people, understanding them, listening to their opinions, collaborating with them, and building solid foundations that turn into the most valuable of relationships in life.
4. Happiness: This ties into the above 3 virtues of success. If you are healthy, if you are wealthy, if you love and are loved back, you will be happy.

All 4 of these virtues are not taught in grade school, high school, or college. Instead we learn irrational roots and imaginary numbers in math (WHAT THE FUCK), we take tests on things that can’t actually be applied in real life, we learn cursive (not taught any longer), common core math (working harder, not smarter), and we are molded to do normal things. How can we be great when we are taught our whole lives up to the ages of 18-24 by normal people, by people who have not achieved extraordinary things? How can we actually believe that we are to be successful when we are taught average things by average people who have done nothing above average in the grand scheme of things?

This is a real problem fam. Mark Zuckerburg; college drop out, Bill Gates; college drop out, Ellen DeGeneres; didn’t go to college, Steve Jobs; didn’t go to college, Rockefeller; no college, Kim Kardashian; no college.

If you want to be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, or athlete, please, go to college, do it, and achieve your dreams.

But in all other areas, I am saying to you; if you want financial freedom, if you want freedom from debt, freedom from bosses, freedom to live, freedom to become the master of your own life, be an entrepreneur.

College debt in the United States alone is a $1.5T industry. Did you hear me? It’s an actual industry. The U.S. Gov has made it an actual business to earn interest off the backs of over 44M college students….

The average graduate will make $49,785 per year. They will graduate with $37,172 of debt. Their rent will be $1,100, their average car payment will be $515/mo, they will pay 22% federal income tax, they will pay state income tax (unless they are in one of 7 states without it), they will pay 7.65% to social security, and be left with $17,000 at the end of the year.

We still need to deduct their monthly student loan payments, any food they want to eat, gas they need to put in their car, health insurance, car insurance, phone bill, utilities, and anything else that pops up in life.

So please, tell me what part of this sounds successful? What part of this system sounds like it works?

…And the saddest thing is this; most people literally do not understand the mindset of what it takes to be an entrepreneur because they have already been traditionally conformed.