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Radical Personal Finance

227-The Five Benefits of College and Radical Ways to Exploit Them

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Finance, Retirement, Insurance, Business, Money, Education, Self-improvement, Financial, Independence, Growth, Advice, Investing, Family, Personal, Radical, Christian, Faith

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

As we head into the back-to-school season in the United States, I've been thinking a lot about the value of college and I've come up with a framework that I think will be useful to you.

I see the 5 major benefits of college as these:

  1. Fun
  2. Personal Growth
  3. Certification
  4. Education
  5. Connections

It's helpful to identify these benefits. But it's more important to understand how to manipulate the system to maximize your opportunities with each of them.

Once you understand, you can design your own radical path to success.

Enjoy the show!

Joshua

Transcript

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0:17.0

Today on the radical personal finance we're going to celebrate the back to school season with the show on the five major benefits of college and some radical strategies for you to maximize your time and your investment. Listen carefully if you're ever going to go to college, if you're in college, or if you know anyone who's going to college, I'm going to help

0:28.0

you get your money's worth out of the price of tuition. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host.

0:51.0

Thank you so much for tuning in. This is the show where each and every day, well, not this week. This is the show where most days or many days, we work together to help clarify your path to financial independence.

1:05.0

And since college is a very important stop on many people's paths,

1:10.0

let's get some bang for our buck today.

1:15.0

My hope is that this is a show that if you know anybody in college,

1:23.6

but you'll be able to share this show with them.

1:26.0

And I'm going to give you just some ideas

1:27.4

and essentially a framework for how

1:29.2

to think about the major benefits of college.

1:32.0

This is also applicable to high school and

1:34.7

also it's applicable at every level of college. It's basically the major benefits of

1:38.7

schooling in general, but I'm specifically in my mind today focusing on the concept of an undergraduate college education.

1:47.6

And these are the five major benefits of that process that I see. Once you see these five I think you'll be able to maximize your time

1:56.2

which is the most important thing that you give up when you go to college but

2:00.3

also maximize your money and maximize this period of your life.

2:04.0

Because you see if you go through college and you think that the primary focus is to come out the other side with a diploma,

2:11.0

well that might be the primary focus, but if that's all you think about, then

2:17.8

you've missed some of the things that you could get.

2:21.1

So I'm going to share with you the five benefits of college, at least that I see, didn't read these

2:24.5

anywhere, I made these up in my head. And if you think I miss any, you just let me know. But I think I've got a pretty

2:30.4

all-encompassing list here. And then I'm going to give you some ideas for how to

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