**The Misconception of School as the Key to Success**

I'm very focused on what you want to do, and I think that's the key to success. A lot of people don't realize that being a business owner doesn't equate to having a high school diploma or even a college degree. You can start a landscaping business, a car wash, or any other venture that doesn't require a formal education and still do very well.

I'm not saying that schooling isn't valuable, but I think it's overemphasized in our society. People often get caught up in the idea that if you're a straight-A student, they'll automatically be business owners later on. But that's just not true. There are plenty of examples of successful people who didn't follow this path. They were entrepreneurs from a young age, and their success had nothing to do with their grades.

In fact, I think focusing too much on school can actually be detrimental to one's development as a person. It creates a false sense of superiority in those who get good grades, which can lead to arrogance and entitlement. And let's not forget that social skills are just as important as any academic achievement. School does teach you how to interact with others, but it also places a lot of emphasis on memorization rather than actual learning.

I've always been skeptical of the idea that school is essential for success. I mean, what even do we get out of our education system? We learn how to recite facts and formulas, but that's about it. It doesn't teach us how to think critically or solve problems. And yet, these are exactly the skills that you need to be successful in business.

So, my advice to young people is to focus on developing your own unique skills and strengths. Figure out what you're good at and what you enjoy doing, and then find ways to monetize those skills. It's not about getting a high school or college degree; it's about being willing to take risks and try new things.

One of the most important things I've learned in life is the importance of partnership. Just because someone is talented in one area doesn't mean they're automatically good at another. That's why it's so crucial to find people who complement your skills and work together with them. It's like having a band – you don't need two drummers if one person can play both drums and guitar.

I also think that school places too much pressure on kids, which can lead to social issues and mental health problems. Kids get caught up in trying to meet certain standards or grades, rather than focusing on their own personal growth and development. And let's not forget the financial burden of going to college – it's a huge amount of money that could be spent on something else.

So, to all my fellow parents out there, I urge you to go easy on your kids. Don't put too much pressure on them to succeed academically; instead, focus on their passions and interests. And if they do decide to pursue higher education, don't assume it's the key to success. There are plenty of examples of people who have achieved great things without a college degree.

Ultimately, the path to success is unique for each individual. What matters most is that you find what works for you and go with it. Don't get caught up in the idea that school is essential for success; instead, focus on developing your own skills and strengths. With hard work and determination, I truly believe that anyone can achieve their goals and live a happy, fulfilling life.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday's video is brought to you by Skillshare comm which is actually a perfect fit for the subject matter of today's video Skillshare is an online learning community for creators with more than 25,000 classes and design business and more Premium Membership gives you unlimited access so you can join the classes and communities so they're just right for you and your new year's goal the last class that I just used that was actually very helpful was the productivity master class for somebody who has three businesses and no personal assistant at the moment it was crucial for me to organize my life and stay on top of everything that I have to do whether you want to fuel your curiosity creativity or even career skill share is the perfect place to keep you learning and thriving in 2019 join the more than 7 million creators currently learning on Skillshare click the link in the description the first 500 of my subscribers to click the link below will get a two-month trial for free so get your 2019 started off right and click the link below alright so today I want to talk about success and how to achieve it now if I just take a second and pause and let you think what you were taught you needed to do to be successful you're thinking you're thinking the story probably goes like this you get good grades in school you get a good score on your SAT go to a good college and you will get a good high paying job and you will be successful in life well it's not really the case sorry and you have to start as a parent you have to start taking a different approach and seeing like alright that was sort of a line of crap that somebody fed me and and I've got to redirect this and change the thinking for the next generation because otherwise you're gonna have a lot of people that end up unhappy because they do everything they're supposed to do and it doesn't result in the desired result that they were expecting so let's start by defining success right and and I apologize right now because right now you're gonna be like I'm gonna attempt to make this like a seven minute video and you're gonna look at the timestamp yeah that's 18 minutes long I'm sorry but I want to be thorough I want to cover everything and I want to make sure that we talk this out because some people are gonna be like don't tell people not to go to school don't tell people that's stupid you've got to get good grades you got like everybody's got this like our Cystic approach to raising a child and that they want their kid to be the smartest kid in school I don't my kids to be the smartest kid in school I don't care about that I want them to be good people my wife just got a phone call the other day from the school nurse and it was I just had to call you and let you know that your son came in and he was he was sent to get a box of tissues from me he came in he was so polite he was pleased and thank you it just brighten my morning I never do this I never like ever call parents she deals with kids like little one year like first graders all the time and my son impressed her so much that made her day and it made her day so much better having interacted with him that is better than any report card you can ever get and she's like just bring him for ice cream later or something like that he made my day great which in turn then made my wife stay great because it's like we're doing something right in that we're raising a stand out person the problem our world has isn't that we don't have enough smart people so we have too many and there's no reflection of like oh yeah these guys are nobody's civil to each other nobody's nice to each other it's just a bunch of people screaming at each other and being unhappy in their lives because they may not be where they thought they want it to be that life ends up being tougher than theirs whatever let's let's reset so little number one raise your kids to be nice people at the end of the day don't have any expectations other than the fact that if I my success as a parent is if I raise my kids to be good people they don't have to be doctors enough to be lawyers I have to make a ton of money they just have to be good people and decent people and you've done your job like stop it there don't don't lose the the idea that they have to get straight A's in order to not let you down because that's probably not healthy for the kids I was no case student in school nothing spectacular I got B's I got A's I got D's and classes and I did I did the thing I did fairly well on my SATs I think I got like a 1310 or 1320 and I just it wasn't like I wasn't a phenomenal student I didn't enjoy the classroom learning I did not enjoy going to school then I went to college I ended up going College where I got a full scholarship because I didn't want to burden my parents with the college that I wanted to go to which was Bucknell I got in but I would have had to pay half and at half of 32 thousand was sixteen thousand a year and I'm like you know what I'll go to Gettysburg it was free cuz they gave me a full scholarship long story short I left Gettysburg after a year and a half went to Ramapo College cuz I'm like what does this matter I could there's this guys smoking weed every day and they're like seniors now why aren't they failed out of school by now these guys fraternity guys are like they're stumbling around campus yet they're graduating so what what does that degree mean and that's I guess the point of this that the degree doesn't mean much now a degree a college degree you know what let's back down one second let's define success I mean you can get into the lis like Oh a fulfilling life and like let's just do the the most basic definition of success which is the ability that generate lots of money simple as that like wherever you are globally the definition of success is to generate lots of money whether that's through political power through business through anything generate it through selling drugs so you could say El Chapo pretty successful guy right the definition of success is being able to generate a lot of money now what's the easiest way to do that start out with a lot of money be rich and unfortunately most of us aren't rich to start out with so you have to actually earn the money and build the wealth and generate the wealth so what are the limiting factors at that point in time well now you're limited by your personal time if you're gonna go to school or do anything and you're limited by your personal time then you're gonna have to make a lot of money per hour that you can work you can work so you can work 50 60 hours a week you have to make a lot of money if you want to be super successful or the other option is to then scale and how do you scale your own labor well the easiest way to scale your own labor is to have other people work underneath you and do something devise something make it that you are now in control of other people the the head of a company is usually the person making the most money and you're like well how am I gonna be the head of the company well it's very simple if you go anywhere in this country there's businesses you drive down the road business business business but they're all not owned by the same person they're all not opening by Apple owned by Apple they're owned by individuals and there's tens of millions of individual businesses in this country and they're all owned by somebody and those guys are probably doing pretty well not all of them but most of them so what do they all have in common and and I was gonna do a video about what Lamborghini owners have in common because I mean a lot of people mistakenly assume that if somebody is a nice watch they're successful if they've might be dressed nicely and they have a Mercedes in the driveway they've got a big mortgage on the house that that equates to success it doesn't really the ability to generate a lot of money equates to success and that generally doesn't have a correlation to getting good grades in school or going to certain schools or certain colleges now I'll I'll put this in perspective if you go to an Ivy League school the Yale the Harvard you have a good chance of landing a high paying job you're probably a pretty smart individual and you're the top of the crop I'm not concerning myself with those people I'm not concerning myself with the people that want to become doctors want to become lawyers or engineers or something that requires those degrees you have to do it you have to go through school that's ten percent of everybody those people have to go to school it's the other ninety percent of the people that are going to for-profit colleges colleges that are there to sell you on the idea that you need them to make money and be successful in life and you don't and all a lot of people end up coming out of college with is a whole bunch of debt and looking for somebody to hire them for what they want to make which is usually never gonna happen and a lot of people then overvalue themselves and end up sick and and angry and bitter at the world and looking for somebody to hand like like summarizing Millennials in like 30 seconds and looking for the world to then just drop money in their lap or do something for them or include that because it's expensive include this because it's expensive and give me opportunity that you've had the chance to earn everybody starts with the same up word most people start with the same opportunity rich people they take the elevator they do they get this and what do I mean by that it's pretty easy to make money when you have money if I gave you twenty million dollars you could probably if you had any sort of brain make some more money with it you don't have to borrow money cost of borrowing is very expensive cost of learning is very expensive and if you don't have much to learn or if you don't have much to to RHIB to lose like if you're if you're on tight money and you make a mistake you can't rebound rich people can't know yeah I made a million dollar mistake whatever I learned and now I move on so having no money or starting with no money or having loans or paying interest and and having these other costs of operation make it more difficult then rich people have rich people hey here's ten million dollars go start a business great I'll take that ten million dollars I don't have any mortgage expense of the how many rent expense I own the building and now all I have to do is live off of this it's a completely different lifestyle I'm talking about being able to forge your way through now how do you afford your way through how do you do this you and as I said it's a perfect parallel to the sponsor of today's video and that's not the reason for this video I've had this video on the table for a long time developing skills like how do you become successful you're like alright great you told me how not to be how hard everything is or what I shouldn't do now what should I do well the thing to do is to find a way to mature your skills now I if school could be so much more helpful to people teach people how to balance a checkbook people teach people how to budget teach people how to go out and like find what they're good at teach people how to do taxes teach people how to navigate through life instead of teaching how to do long-form math when you can just ask Siri how to answer the question now I mean you're teaching people nonsense that's got no no correlation to daily life and they can't even figure out their own damn taxes when they got a school they can't figure out anything as far as I go I didn't know I had the budget I didn't know how to borrow money I didn't know you're not teaching people how to live you're teaching people nonsense that goes into a textbook and then you're like well this is what you need you need Common Core math well you don't need common core math I don't need to learn how to do complex quadratic equations because you know what if I'm not gonna be an engineer I don't need that I just need to know where to find the calculator how to talk to my smartphone to figure that problem out and that's it that's that's where it stops the the skills that people should be learning in school social skills how to be civil with people how to disagree stuff not to dig in your heels not to be angry at the world but just to function in society and learn stuff like renting versus buying all this stuff that would be very helpful to people that isn't taught so how do you be successful how do you have a business that's better than the next guy and you know if you want to follow the path of school and go into a profession like law or doctors or whatever you don't have to be successful you could be a shitty doctor and still make a lot of money you can be a crappy lawyer still make a lot of money these guys that are traffic lawyers they're all the same they all suck you go in they make their money they're making ten thousand dollars a month being traffic lawyers anywhere in the country and they're doing just fine but if you want to be successful in other businesses if you want to be a restaurateur you have to have better food than the next restaurant if you want to be the guy if you want to live on the hill you want to drive your rolls-royce you wanna you want to earn that extra money you can earn plenty of money just owning a business but not enough to be to reach that level of success being able to scale being able to come up with a restaurant that then and I'll use this restaurant for example the restaurant that can then scale and open up multiple locations great you figured it out you've got something that's scalable it doesn't involve your direct labor every day and now you're off to the races now like even something on the mechanic shop if you're a mechanic shop and you're the only mechanic and you're the only one that can do the work in the shop then you know what you're limited by your labor you're limited by the $70 the hundred dollars an hour that you're charging for this six billable hours you can squeeze every day if you've got ten techs in there each generating it's a hundred dollars now or a billable work at six hours of billable work a day and you're paying them $40 an hour guess what you're making $60 an hour times ten people and you don't even have to turn a wrench at that point in time so learning how to scale learning how to do something better than the next guy learning they being able to take risks all of these things are things that business owners have in common and being able to solve problems that's probably the most important one because as a business owner you're gonna face a lot of problems and being able to solve it and solve it effectively and cost efficiently will be the thing that will help you in the long run some people you know you may not be cut out to be a business owner but it's really being a business owner doesn't equate to like a you know everybody there was a straight-a student in my school they're all business owners now everybody that got a 4.0 everybody that did this on their SATs they owned businesses and everybody else works for them that's not how it works I mean you could start you could start a landscaping business you can start a car wash you could start anything that doesn't require an education or virtually any education and you could do very well at it so focus on that focus on just being a good person being an honest person and going through life that way if you want to take the path of schooling great you can do that but I wouldn't do it unless you're focused I'm very very focused on what you want to do a lot of people don't ride your kids to get the grades the grades don't mean anything I would take that call from the nurse about my kid being brightening her day any day of the week over straight A's if my kid was a terror and an like that's not what you want you don't want to raise like there's no correlation a lot of times when you get and give people good grades they get this false sense that they're better than people and then they turn out to be an you don't want that guy there's tons of ways to make money out there and and it crosses gender lines it crosses race lines it doesn't matter it's the skills that will make you money focus on what you're good at everybody's good at different things I'm not good at certain things and I work well with other people that are then they're not good at problem-solving I'm terrific at problem-solving so being able to match up with other people that are also complement your skills versus yeah we both have the same skills so what you don't need two drummers in one band you need something like I can't play the guitar but I could play the drums you could play the guitar that works so partner up with people that that have different skill sets that complement your own there's many ways to make it in this world and it is not by focusing on school a lot of times school is just gonna unfortunately pressure kids too much it's gonna cause social issues it's just gonna it's just not healthy I'm not a psychiatrist take it for what it is but that's my take on it I don't see a correlation between grades and school grades on the SATs and college GPAs or even college degrees and how successful people are in life you can be successful without it and especially with college you'll save yourself a hell of a lot of money so that's something to think about feel free to just jump in and disagree with me in the comments I know some of you will this is my PSA that says school is is people over think school hey I think it doesn't teach the right things I think you can go to college and you can go to some college I think you could take some outside of high school I think a high school degree you need it obviously you should have it but I think you could take some classes in college not get the college degree and be just as well-off I think school does teach social skills which are valuable learning to deal with the the o'doyle's of the world learning to have empathy and and not bully people or or look out for the guy who's being bullied or whatever the situation is learning to talk to people of the other sex if you're gay the people of the same sex it's whatever it is being in that social environment is healthy and not having such a focus on and the other things school does is a lot of memorization they're not teaching you anything they're just teaching you to memorize something so you can recite it 24 hours later and then forget it and you didn't learn anything and that's why I think I got a lot out of school without getting the grades that other people got because I actually learned stuff I went in and I absorbed it and whether that reflected on me the report card or not is it relevant but school go easy on you kids I feel like Marty McFly you know your kid's gonna set fire to the carpet one day just just go easy on them just focus on other things in life I thought it's I don't want it to be a parenting lesson but the point of this video is that the path the path to success looks very different but there are the commonality to success is not school the commonality is skills and focus on developing your skills figuring out what skill you actually have that you can make the most money off of and you will find your personal success level achievable simple as that thank you for watching see you tomorrowtoday's video is brought to you by Skillshare comm which is actually a perfect fit for the subject matter of today's video Skillshare is an online learning community for creators with more than 25,000 classes and design business and more Premium Membership gives you unlimited access so you can join the classes and communities so they're just right for you and your new year's goal the last class that I just used that was actually very helpful was the productivity master class for somebody who has three businesses and no personal assistant at the moment it was crucial for me to organize my life and stay on top of everything that I have to do whether you want to fuel your curiosity creativity or even career skill share is the perfect place to keep you learning and thriving in 2019 join the more than 7 million creators currently learning on Skillshare click the link in the description the first 500 of my subscribers to click the link below will get a two-month trial for free so get your 2019 started off right and click the link below alright so today I want to talk about success and how to achieve it now if I just take a second and pause and let you think what you were taught you needed to do to be successful you're thinking you're thinking the story probably goes like this you get good grades in school you get a good score on your SAT go to a good college and you will get a good high paying job and you will be successful in life well it's not really the case sorry and you have to start as a parent you have to start taking a different approach and seeing like alright that was sort of a line of crap that somebody fed me and and I've got to redirect this and change the thinking for the next generation because otherwise you're gonna have a lot of people that end up unhappy because they do everything they're supposed to do and it doesn't result in the desired result that they were expecting so let's start by defining success right and and I apologize right now because right now you're gonna be like I'm gonna attempt to make this like a seven minute video and you're gonna look at the timestamp yeah that's 18 minutes long I'm sorry but I want to be thorough I want to cover everything and I want to make sure that we talk this out because some people are gonna be like don't tell people not to go to school don't tell people that's stupid you've got to get good grades you got like everybody's got this like our Cystic approach to raising a child and that they want their kid to be the smartest kid in school I don't my kids to be the smartest kid in school I don't care about that I want them to be good people my wife just got a phone call the other day from the school nurse and it was I just had to call you and let you know that your son came in and he was he was sent to get a box of tissues from me he came in he was so polite he was pleased and thank you it just brighten my morning I never do this I never like ever call parents she deals with kids like little one year like first graders all the time and my son impressed her so much that made her day and it made her day so much better having interacted with him that is better than any report card you can ever get and she's like just bring him for ice cream later or something like that he made my day great which in turn then made my wife stay great because it's like we're doing something right in that we're raising a stand out person the problem our world has isn't that we don't have enough smart people so we have too many and there's no reflection of like oh yeah these guys are nobody's civil to each other nobody's nice to each other it's just a bunch of people screaming at each other and being unhappy in their lives because they may not be where they thought they want it to be that life ends up being tougher than theirs whatever let's let's reset so little number one raise your kids to be nice people at the end of the day don't have any expectations other than the fact that if I my success as a parent is if I raise my kids to be good people they don't have to be doctors enough to be lawyers I have to make a ton of money they just have to be good people and decent people and you've done your job like stop it there don't don't lose the the idea that they have to get straight A's in order to not let you down because that's probably not healthy for the kids I was no case student in school nothing spectacular I got B's I got A's I got D's and classes and I did I did the thing I did fairly well on my SATs I think I got like a 1310 or 1320 and I just it wasn't like I wasn't a phenomenal student I didn't enjoy the classroom learning I did not enjoy going to school then I went to college I ended up going College where I got a full scholarship because I didn't want to burden my parents with the college that I wanted to go to which was Bucknell I got in but I would have had to pay half and at half of 32 thousand was sixteen thousand a year and I'm like you know what I'll go to Gettysburg it was free cuz they gave me a full scholarship long story short I left Gettysburg after a year and a half went to Ramapo College cuz I'm like what does this matter I could there's this guys smoking weed every day and they're like seniors now why aren't they failed out of school by now these guys fraternity guys are like they're stumbling around campus yet they're graduating so what what does that degree mean and that's I guess the point of this that the degree doesn't mean much now a degree a college degree you know what let's back down one second let's define success I mean you can get into the lis like Oh a fulfilling life and like let's just do the the most basic definition of success which is the ability that generate lots of money simple as that like wherever you are globally the definition of success is to generate lots of money whether that's through political power through business through anything generate it through selling drugs so you could say El Chapo pretty successful guy right the definition of success is being able to generate a lot of money now what's the easiest way to do that start out with a lot of money be rich and unfortunately most of us aren't rich to start out with so you have to actually earn the money and build the wealth and generate the wealth so what are the limiting factors at that point in time well now you're limited by your personal time if you're gonna go to school or do anything and you're limited by your personal time then you're gonna have to make a lot of money per hour that you can work you can work so you can work 50 60 hours a week you have to make a lot of money if you want to be super successful or the other option is to then scale and how do you scale your own labor well the easiest way to scale your own labor is to have other people work underneath you and do something devise something make it that you are now in control of other people the the head of a company is usually the person making the most money and you're like well how am I gonna be the head of the company well it's very simple if you go anywhere in this country there's businesses you drive down the road business business business but they're all not owned by the same person they're all not opening by Apple owned by Apple they're owned by individuals and there's tens of millions of individual businesses in this country and they're all owned by somebody and those guys are probably doing pretty well not all of them but most of them so what do they all have in common and and I was gonna do a video about what Lamborghini owners have in common because I mean a lot of people mistakenly assume that if somebody is a nice watch they're successful if they've might be dressed nicely and they have a Mercedes in the driveway they've got a big mortgage on the house that that equates to success it doesn't really the ability to generate a lot of money equates to success and that generally doesn't have a correlation to getting good grades in school or going to certain schools or certain colleges now I'll I'll put this in perspective if you go to an Ivy League school the Yale the Harvard you have a good chance of landing a high paying job you're probably a pretty smart individual and you're the top of the crop I'm not concerning myself with those people I'm not concerning myself with the people that want to become doctors want to become lawyers or engineers or something that requires those degrees you have to do it you have to go through school that's ten percent of everybody those people have to go to school it's the other ninety percent of the people that are going to for-profit colleges colleges that are there to sell you on the idea that you need them to make money and be successful in life and you don't and all a lot of people end up coming out of college with is a whole bunch of debt and looking for somebody to hire them for what they want to make which is usually never gonna happen and a lot of people then overvalue themselves and end up sick and and angry and bitter at the world and looking for somebody to hand like like summarizing Millennials in like 30 seconds and looking for the world to then just drop money in their lap or do something for them or include that because it's expensive include this because it's expensive and give me opportunity that you've had the chance to earn everybody starts with the same up word most people start with the same opportunity rich people they take the elevator they do they get this and what do I mean by that it's pretty easy to make money when you have money if I gave you twenty million dollars you could probably if you had any sort of brain make some more money with it you don't have to borrow money cost of borrowing is very expensive cost of learning is very expensive and if you don't have much to learn or if you don't have much to to RHIB to lose like if you're if you're on tight money and you make a mistake you can't rebound rich people can't know yeah I made a million dollar mistake whatever I learned and now I move on so having no money or starting with no money or having loans or paying interest and and having these other costs of operation make it more difficult then rich people have rich people hey here's ten million dollars go start a business great I'll take that ten million dollars I don't have any mortgage expense of the how many rent expense I own the building and now all I have to do is live off of this it's a completely different lifestyle I'm talking about being able to forge your way through now how do you afford your way through how do you do this you and as I said it's a perfect parallel to the sponsor of today's video and that's not the reason for this video I've had this video on the table for a long time developing skills like how do you become successful you're like alright great you told me how not to be how hard everything is or what I shouldn't do now what should I do well the thing to do is to find a way to mature your skills now I if school could be so much more helpful to people teach people how to balance a checkbook people teach people how to budget teach people how to go out and like find what they're good at teach people how to do taxes teach people how to navigate through life instead of teaching how to do long-form math when you can just ask Siri how to answer the question now I mean you're teaching people nonsense that's got no no correlation to daily life and they can't even figure out their own damn taxes when they got a school they can't figure out anything as far as I go I didn't know I had the budget I didn't know how to borrow money I didn't know you're not teaching people how to live you're teaching people nonsense that goes into a textbook and then you're like well this is what you need you need Common Core math well you don't need common core math I don't need to learn how to do complex quadratic equations because you know what if I'm not gonna be an engineer I don't need that I just need to know where to find the calculator how to talk to my smartphone to figure that problem out and that's it that's that's where it stops the the skills that people should be learning in school social skills how to be civil with people how to disagree stuff not to dig in your heels not to be angry at the world but just to function in society and learn stuff like renting versus buying all this stuff that would be very helpful to people that isn't taught so how do you be successful how do you have a business that's better than the next guy and you know if you want to follow the path of school and go into a profession like law or doctors or whatever you don't have to be successful you could be a shitty doctor and still make a lot of money you can be a crappy lawyer still make a lot of money these guys that are traffic lawyers they're all the same they all suck you go in they make their money they're making ten thousand dollars a month being traffic lawyers anywhere in the country and they're doing just fine but if you want to be successful in other businesses if you want to be a restaurateur you have to have better food than the next restaurant if you want to be the guy if you want to live on the hill you want to drive your rolls-royce you wanna you want to earn that extra money you can earn plenty of money just owning a business but not enough to be to reach that level of success being able to scale being able to come up with a restaurant that then and I'll use this restaurant for example the restaurant that can then scale and open up multiple locations great you figured it out you've got something that's scalable it doesn't involve your direct labor every day and now you're off to the races now like even something on the mechanic shop if you're a mechanic shop and you're the only mechanic and you're the only one that can do the work in the shop then you know what you're limited by your labor you're limited by the $70 the hundred dollars an hour that you're charging for this six billable hours you can squeeze every day if you've got ten techs in there each generating it's a hundred dollars now or a billable work at six hours of billable work a day and you're paying them $40 an hour guess what you're making $60 an hour times ten people and you don't even have to turn a wrench at that point in time so learning how to scale learning how to do something better than the next guy learning they being able to take risks all of these things are things that business owners have in common and being able to solve problems that's probably the most important one because as a business owner you're gonna face a lot of problems and being able to solve it and solve it effectively and cost efficiently will be the thing that will help you in the long run some people you know you may not be cut out to be a business owner but it's really being a business owner doesn't equate to like a you know everybody there was a straight-a student in my school they're all business owners now everybody that got a 4.0 everybody that did this on their SATs they owned businesses and everybody else works for them that's not how it works I mean you could start you could start a landscaping business you can start a car wash you could start anything that doesn't require an education or virtually any education and you could do very well at it so focus on that focus on just being a good person being an honest person and going through life that way if you want to take the path of schooling great you can do that but I wouldn't do it unless you're focused I'm very very focused on what you want to do a lot of people don't ride your kids to get the grades the grades don't mean anything I would take that call from the nurse about my kid being brightening her day any day of the week over straight A's if my kid was a terror and an like that's not what you want you don't want to raise like there's no correlation a lot of times when you get and give people good grades they get this false sense that they're better than people and then they turn out to be an you don't want that guy there's tons of ways to make money out there and and it crosses gender lines it crosses race lines it doesn't matter it's the skills that will make you money focus on what you're good at everybody's good at different things I'm not good at certain things and I work well with other people that are then they're not good at problem-solving I'm terrific at problem-solving so being able to match up with other people that are also complement your skills versus yeah we both have the same skills so what you don't need two drummers in one band you need something like I can't play the guitar but I could play the drums you could play the guitar that works so partner up with people that that have different skill sets that complement your own there's many ways to make it in this world and it is not by focusing on school a lot of times school is just gonna unfortunately pressure kids too much it's gonna cause social issues it's just gonna it's just not healthy I'm not a psychiatrist take it for what it is but that's my take on it I don't see a correlation between grades and school grades on the SATs and college GPAs or even college degrees and how successful people are in life you can be successful without it and especially with college you'll save yourself a hell of a lot of money so that's something to think about feel free to just jump in and disagree with me in the comments I know some of you will this is my PSA that says school is is people over think school hey I think it doesn't teach the right things I think you can go to college and you can go to some college I think you could take some outside of high school I think a high school degree you need it obviously you should have it but I think you could take some classes in college not get the college degree and be just as well-off I think school does teach social skills which are valuable learning to deal with the the o'doyle's of the world learning to have empathy and and not bully people or or look out for the guy who's being bullied or whatever the situation is learning to talk to people of the other sex if you're gay the people of the same sex it's whatever it is being in that social environment is healthy and not having such a focus on and the other things school does is a lot of memorization they're not teaching you anything they're just teaching you to memorize something so you can recite it 24 hours later and then forget it and you didn't learn anything and that's why I think I got a lot out of school without getting the grades that other people got because I actually learned stuff I went in and I absorbed it and whether that reflected on me the report card or not is it relevant but school go easy on you kids I feel like Marty McFly you know your kid's gonna set fire to the carpet one day just just go easy on them just focus on other things in life I thought it's I don't want it to be a parenting lesson but the point of this video is that the path the path to success looks very different but there are the commonality to success is not school the commonality is skills and focus on developing your skills figuring out what skill you actually have that you can make the most money off of and you will find your personal success level achievable simple as that thank you for watching see you tomorrow\n"