As Nelson Mandela said, education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.

Wherever you are right now listening to this, I want you to burn that into your mind.

The most powerful weapon that you're going to have at your disposal isn't a gun, it isn't a sword,

it isn't a bomb. The most powerful weapon you will ever have at your disposal if you really

want to make change, is knowledge. It doesn't mean going to school, it can be school, it can be books,

it can be a mentor, it can be somebody else's failure, it can be your own failure.

But whatever it is to always be learning, to be learning something today, knowing that that's

an investment and is Robert Lewis-Deevinson said, don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,

but rather by the seeds you plant. And that's what knowledge is, that's what the learning process

is, is you're learning something today that you may not even understand how it's going to be valuable.

But one day, that piece of knowledge is going to come to your end one day, that thing that you

learned is going to be something that you're going to lean on one day, that thing that you've worked

your ass off to understand better than anybody else in the world. It's going to help you change

the world. But you have to be doing it now, you have to be learning with an obsession, you have to

understand that ideas in equal ideas out and that you have to chase that knowledge down, that it is

a relentless pursuit and that like you would build an armada, like you would create a stock

pile of weapons, you must create a stock pile of knowledge, you must learn and learn and learn,

and you must hold yourself accountable every day to planning those seeds to getting better,

to learning more, to understanding things more broadly. When you do that, there will be nothing

that won't be unlocked to you. That's what I want you guys to understand, it doesn't matter where

you are now, it doesn't matter where you started, your circumstances, the money, the people that you

know, none of it matters. What matters is how much you're willing to learn, how good are you willing

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