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This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1218 Qualifications by Chris Gillibow of ChrisGillibow.com and I'm Justin Malik.

Welcome to the podcast where it simply re-blocks to you for free, like a gigantic ongoing audio book with many different authors with their permission.

Today's post being from Chris Gillibow, a popular author and traveler. I'll keep this intro nice and short for the Friday episode.

So let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.

Qualifications by Chris Gillibow of ChrisGillibow.com

Sometimes people ask about my qualifications. It's a fair question with a simple answer. I have none. There's absolutely no reason I should be doing pretty much anything I'm doing these days.

I was a high school dropout and a juvenile delinquent. I learned to drive by stealing cars, but since I was a slow learner, I kept crashing them into mailboxes.

A long, true story. I wasn't especially dedicated to my first part-time job as a 14-year-old dishwasher. Whenever I received a pot that was especially difficult to clean, my walked outside and threw it in the dumpster.

This strategy worked well until the restaurant ran out of pots. The owner and I had a discussion and it was agreed I should find another means of employment.

I banded a series of other part-time jobs by not showing up to work. No notice, no phone call, no request for the check to be sent in the mail.

I did make it to college where I performed fairly well once I learned to work the system. My degree was in sociology, a fun and interesting subject that led to exactly zero job opportunities.

By the time I graduated, I didn't want a job anyway, so I bought and sold coffee instead. I never learned higher math, not any kind, and not at all.

No algebra, geometry, calculus, or anything else you're told is essential for adulthood. I snuck into grad school without taking the GRE, which is a good thing because when I took a practice test later, I placed in the 15th percentile for quantitative.

To which I wondered, wow, who are all the people less than the 15th?

My first quarter in grad school, I had approved competency and statistics by passing a course. This was a disaster from start to finish.

Imagine being thrown into a classroom where every word is foreign to you. Sink or swim, right?

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