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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

280: Danny Iny - Why You Shouldn't Go To College

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk

Business, Careers, Management

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Episode #280: Danny Iny - Why You Shouldn't Go To College

"The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed." 

Show Notes:

  • Commonalities of sustaining excellence:
    • An attitude of curiosity - interested. "I wonder why that happens?"
    • Sense of things being "figureoutable." They will get it done. Fortitude.
  • Danny and I discuss a partnership -- Working together on building a course
  • Being "catalytically curious"
  • Why start Mirasee?
    • Built after previous failure. "On an emotional level, a startup falling apart is like a really rough breakup."
  • "Mirasee was the rebound business."  It has a value driven ethos.  "At the end of an interaction with you, people should like you more regardless of what happens."
    • "Mira" = To see, wonder
  • Why build online courses?
    • The convenience and practicality. It's "Just In Time" Learning
  • Should graduating high schoolers go to college?
    • "Probably not. There is an expectation that smart kids should go to college. That it's the ticket to the good life.  This used to be true, but it's not anymore. The facts don't back that up."
    • "The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed."
    • "Those non-specific degrees are functionally worthless."
    • "It's not about where we are, it's about where will we be?"
  • What should a smart high school graduate do instead?
    • Find people you respect and trust in the working world.  Offer to work for them for free.  Shadow them. Learn from them.  Figure out if you want to do that full time.
    • This requires people to take initiative and ownership
  • Why I started the podcast? -- "To create my own leadership PhD."
    • "Pace of education is changing."
    • "At the pace of change currently the curriculum being taught will be completely different in 5-10 years."
  • You must have:
    • Literacy
    • Fluency
    • You need a deep understanding of your topic
  • How to know which online courses to take?
    • Think: What am I trying to accomplish?
    • Does the course offer this?
    • What do I need to learn? To know?
    • Does the teacher have a track record of success?
  • A course must have a support mechanism... The teacher must stand behind promises made
  • The "pilot" program
    • Survey audience - data analysis
    • Map out curriculum
    • Adapt on the fly - take insight to create something great
  • Peer to peer feedback system in place
    • We learn more from giving feedback to others
    • Accountability measures
  • Read Leveraged Learning
  • Why joining The Learning Leader Circle is a good idea
  • Use the "Get To Know You Document"

"It's not about where we are.  It's about where we will be."

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0:00.0

Fundamentally I think there are two kinds of people in the world.

0:03.4

They're the people who hit an obstacle on their journey and they say this is the

0:06.8

universe telling me not to go there. And there are people who hit an obstacle and

0:10.9

say this is the universe inviting me to find a creative way to get there.

0:15.1

And people who are successful in the long haul, they have that curiosity and they have that just

0:19.2

conviction that things are solvable.

0:22.2

This episode is brought to you by Leverage Learning.

0:25.8

Leverage Learning is a great new book by best-selling author Danny Ennie.

0:30.0

It's no secret that universities and colleges are struggling to keep pace.

0:34.1

It's sad but true, these institutions are leaving many of our individual and collective needs

0:38.7

for learning and growth sorely unmet.

0:41.5

This crisis is an opportunity for the experts and professionals

0:44.8

who possess the knowledge and skills that are so sorely needed by so many.

0:49.7

The solution is to package their expertise and to leverage learning programs that creates

0:54.6

transformation for the lifelong learners who need them and profit for the experts who create them.

1:00.8

Danny Any, a successful educator entrepreneur, has been leading the

1:04.3

charge on this growing movement. In leverage learning, he lays out the guidebook

1:08.9

for navigating and thriving in this new world, both as a lifelong learner and as an expert with something to teach.

1:16.0

Go to Amazon.com and buy Leverage learning

1:20.0

the age of opportunity for lifelong learners and experts with something to teach and buy it today.

1:27.0

Welcome to the Learning Leader Show. I am Ryan Hawk. Thanks so much for being here.

1:36.0

It is Mindful Monday. Text learners to 442-2-2 in order to join thousands of other fellow learning leaders from all over the world,

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