School isn’t the vehicle that will help you achieve entrepreneurial success. There are numerous things you learn while in school that aren’t related to academia that will benefit your entrepreneurial aspirations. Far more than anything assessed by a teacher, school is merely a setting to help individuals grow, develop people skills, and to share ideas. The other elements that people cherish about school is pretty much just BS. An “A” in a subject, a high score on the SAT or other standardized test, even gaining admission to the University of your choice has little to no correlation to your future success, entrepreneurial or otherwise. Aside from having a piece of paper that cost 5 or more figures, higher education is merely a place to build your network for future endeavors. The are a few exceptions to this notion, for example people who aspire to become Medical Doctors, Scientist, and the other occupations that impose academic barriers to entry.
Success as an entrepreneur heavily relies on access to capital. Most of the stories you hear that relate to the sentiment of the “A students work[ing] for C students” disregard the class of the said C student. Society has propagandized the narrative of the mega successful drop-out while disregarding all of the things that underpin that success. What I’m not saying, is that they didn’t create something life changing. However, what I am saying is that these stories seldomly mention the small (6 figure) loans from family members, family ties to key stakeholders or other intangibles that provided a foundation for success. School has its place but to get the most out of schooling one needs to use it as a springboard to something greater… Grades mean nothing! Point in case, the next time you go to the doctor office or stop by to see you attorney and see their degree on the wall, that little piece of paper says nothing about how good of a student they were… Summa cum laude or straight “C’s” it just designates they graduated…
School isn’t the vehicle that will help you achieve entrepreneurial success. There are numerous things you learn while in school that aren’t related to academia that will benefit your entrepreneurial aspirations. Far more than anything assessed by a teacher, school is merely a setting to help individuals grow, develop people skills, and to share ideas. The other elements that people cherish about school is pretty much just BS. An “A” in a subject, a high score on the SAT or other standardized test, even gaining admission to the University of your choice has little to no correlation to your future success, entrepreneurial or otherwise. Aside from having a piece of paper that cost 5 or more figures, higher education is merely a place to build your network for future endeavors. The are a few exceptions to this notion, for example people who aspire to become Medical Doctors, Scientist, and the other occupations that impose academic barriers to entry.
Success as an entrepreneur heavily relies on access to capital. Most of the stories you hear that relate to the sentiment of the “A students work[ing] for C students” disregard the class of the said C student. Society has propagandized the narrative of the mega successful drop-out while disregarding all of the things that underpin that success. What I’m not saying, is that they didn’t create something life changing. However, what I am saying is that these stories seldomly mention the small (6 figure) loans from family members, family ties to key stakeholders or other intangibles that provided a foundation for success. School has its place but to get the most out of schooling one needs to use it as a springboard to something greater… Grades mean nothing! Point in case, the next time you go to the doctor office or stop by to see you attorney and see their degree on the wall, that little piece of paper says nothing about how good of a student they were… Summa cum laude or straight “C’s” it just designates they graduated…