How important to you is the topic of education, your own education?

How possible is it to achieve great success in life without a great education.

My mind, education is huge, hugely important.

And so today we're going to explore that subject with Scott Young. He's most well known for essentially

hacking an MIT computer science degree. This is known as the MIT Challenge in which he put four years of MIT level learning into one year for $0 out of his pocket. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets, and today is Tuesday, December 16, 2014.

Today on the show, we're going to talk about education, not schooling, education.

And we're going to explore some ways for you to become more highly educated

so that you can move your success forward more effectively.

My guest today is Scott Young and he's most well known I think for his

TED Talk was where he achieved some wider internet fame but I know that as I found

out in the course of this interview he's been around for a while

He's been doing things for a while I think you really enjoy today's show because we bring together

Many themes both education and financial independence,

bought through entrepreneurship.

Scott has been earning his living through online writing

for a very long time.

And even just the topic of education, however, is very pertinent to your own personal financial

planning. If you're going to set out to improve anything in life, you're going to need to become educated about it.

And so one of the most important skills that I believe that we can focus on and develop, which

can help us in every area of life is the ability to learn. Here's Scott. So Scott, welcome to the

Radical Personal Finance Podcast. I appreciate you being with me today.

Yeah, thanks for having me. So I've brought you on, I've mentioned your story a couple of times on the show myself, but then

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