This is episode number 461 with New York Times best selling author Adam Braugh.

Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Louis Howe's former pro athlete

turned lifestyle entrepreneur. In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message

to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.

Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.

Welcome everyone. You're in a tree today because we've got my good friend Adam Braugh

back on the show. Now he was here a couple of years ago but we brought him back because he's got

a big announcement today and I wanted to make sure that we were the ones to help announce it

and bring it to the world. Now for those that don't know who Adam is he is a New York Times best

selling author of the promise of a pencil and he is the founder and CEO of Mission U.

He was previously founder and CEO of pencils of promise the award winning organization that

has built 400 schools around the world. He has been featured as a speaker at the White House,

the United Nations and the Clinton Global Initiative. He has also been named to business

insiders 40 under 40 wired magazines 50 people who are changing the world and was selected as one

of the world economic forums original 10 global shapers. I am pumped about this because we're talking

about the new mission that Adam is on and that's Mission U. Now he has helped build schools for kids

all over the world who don't have proper education. He's helped that mission and now he realized that

higher education is actually broken in a lot of ways and what we talk about are why a traditional

four-year college education isn't a good idea anymore. How very few students actually graduate

in four years what standardized tests actually tell about someone what 91% of college freshmen say

is their number one reason for going to a university why Adam shifted his focus from supporting

education abroad to education here at home and so much more and I have found in my opinion one of

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