Fan Mail Friday #69 | Are Schools for Fools?

The Art of Charm

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🗓️ 1 July 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Time for Fan Mail Friday, where we'll be answering your questions and dropping some knowledge and feedback to help you kick the weekend off right. Let's cut to it! In this episode: In the thick of it, high school seems like a waste of time when you've got bigger dreams for your future. But how bright is that future for a high school dropout? A listener offers additional sage advice to an answer we gave in Fan Mail Friday 67 regarding the balance of self-improvement and family drama. Why isn't Jordan on Snapchat? While convalescing from an illness that induces chronic fatigue, how do you deal with the FOMO (fear of missing out) and frustration caused by not being able to operate at the high level to which you're accustomed? Let's be honest: isn't brushing up on social dynamics skills really just a way to manipulate others? Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at [email protected]! Show notes at http://theartofcharm.com/podcast-episodes/fan-mail-friday-69-are-schools-for-fools/ HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming!

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0:00.0	All right, time for fan mail Friday. I'm your host Jordan Harbinger, and I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.
0:05.8	We'll be answering your questions and dropping some knowledge and feedback to help you kick the weekend off right.
0:10.5	If you're new to the Art of Charm podcast, this isn't the best place to start because most of our content is much more in-depth and longer format.
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0:23.3	At the Art of Charm.com slash toolbox, that's where we've got fundamentals of body language and nonverbal communication, attraction, negotiation, networking, and everything else we teach here at the Art of Charm.
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0:43.9	All right, let's cut to it.
0:45.2	Hey guys, I don't know who else to ask. I'm currently writing this message in my third period class because all we do is waste time.
0:53.2	Hours upon hours, days, weeks, months, all we do waste time.
0:58.8	I'm in high school right now quote unquote learning how to operate Microsoft Access, which is relatively more useful than anything else in school.
1:06.7	All I'm doing is wasting time. Time I could be using to pursue my passion, my dream, because my parents decided that the quote unquote backup plan is more important than the original plan.
1:17.9	It's like being on a battlefield with a general who keeps signifying your importance, but uses all his time asking for reinforcements.
1:25.3	And that is a quote from Suley Breaks as he points out, what do I do?
1:29.4	I go to school from 7 in the morning to 2.30 in the afternoon. I work from 3.30 in the afternoon to 6 at night.
1:35.1	I work out from 6 to 7, then I get ready for bed from 7 to 8.
1:39.1	Then and only then can I work on my passion until 3am.
1:43.3	I'm constantly tired and I feel like I'm doing nothing but wasting my life away from 7 in the morning to 6pm every day.
1:50.4	I don't do homework well. I skip classes to go to the library to finish what I couldn't at 3am.
1:56.2	When I'm in class, I'm writing outlines for my passion.
1:58.4	What do I do? My parents want me to focus on school, being I'm only 16.
2:03.0	I've had brutal arguments with them, even ran away to continue to work on my quote unquote passion.
2:09.7	After my little runaway, they've agreed to emancipate me.
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