A Mashup: 5 Thoughts On College Alternatives & Whether Or Not You Should Go

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

If you're a big fan of my content, you know right off the bat that my views on college are mainly skewed towards life skills & personal skills, rather than actually gaining important knowledge, ESPECIALLY if you're working towards being an entrepreneur. Here, I'm joined by a few friends to help answer the really important question of "should I go to college", and what kinds of alternatives there are to attending higher education. There's some really good stuff in here if you're stuck in that spot - hope you enjoy <3

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0:00.0	This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.
0:04.1	Because we're gonna be legends!
0:07.0	I wanna get their attention!
0:10.4	Joe asks, what advice would you give a high school senior in America trying to decide
0:15.1	whether to go to college and if so, which one?
0:18.7	I'm going to let Casey answer this first just because I think it'd be fun to have you
0:22.2	start off the show.
0:23.2	Yeah, no, I've got a strong feeling about further education, which is that I think in
0:27.6	life you should only be doing two things ever.
0:30.7	And one is like discovering what your passion is and then two is realizing it.
0:34.8	So Joe, if you know what you wanna do and you're convicted that's where you wanna be in
0:39.0	life and that trajectory does not necessitate a college education, then skip it.
0:44.7	Chances are you don't know what you wanna do, otherwise you wouldn't be asking us this
0:47.8	question.
0:48.8	And if you don't know what you wanna do, your responsibility is to figure that out.
0:52.8	And college is one of the best places, one of the best atmospheres and environments you
0:56.4	can be in to figure out what your calling is in life, to figure out what your passion is,
1:00.9	what your purpose is.
1:02.7	Joe, I'm gonna jump in here as the cars are racing outside and say this, I agree with
1:07.2	a ton of what Casey said.
1:08.6	I'll also add that if you're taking $200,000 in debt to find your passion, that might be
1:14.3	a practical kind of, by the way, debt that you can't even declare bankruptcy against,
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