What To Do If You Don't Want To Go To College
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Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
If you’re 25, you could literally die and live an entirely new life up to this point, and you’d still barely be at “halftime.”
That’s why I tell so many 18, 22, 25, and 30 year olds to just put their head down and grind for a decade - if they have the ambition to build something for the rest of their lives.
In this podcast with Pencils of Promise founder Adam Braun, I talk more about what to do if you don’t want to go to college, what to do after high school, and more.
1:49 - advice on what to do after high school if you don't want to go to college
4:25 - understanding comes with doing
8:15 - when you're 18 you just have to put your head down for 15 years
Check it out and tweet me what you think @GaryVee with #GVReplay
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Podcasts is one of my favorite all-time-askarvy questions because it's led to two incredible |
| 0:10.3 | trips from the amazing school down in Philly. Listen very carefully to this answer. There's |
| 0:17.9 | a lot of youngsters and a lot of parents and youngsters that are going to need to hear |
| 0:22.1 | this answer and this debate. And obviously not every shoe fits every foot and there's |
| 0:28.1 | a million different variables in the world. But in a 2019 internet world with college |
| 0:33.2 | debt on the rise and the lack of practical jobs from even top 20% universities is a conversation |
| 0:40.4 | we need to have and sometimes we have things on an ideology that people blindly believe |
| 0:45.4 | in that don't become practical in the world. And I think there's a lot of social issues |
| 0:50.0 | that I'm sure a lot of you don't think the same thing that your grandparents thought |
| 0:53.9 | or don't or heck you don't think what you thought even 20 years ago right? I just think |
| 0:59.0 | college needs to be debated in a totally different way. I really really really really really |
| 1:02.7 | really do. I just do. Listen very carefully to these 10 minutes of fire. |
| 1:11.2 | I have students that I teach a much slower and teach a whole boys school and we're talking |
| 1:17.0 | like intercity school about here and I'm going to show them this speed and what I would |
| 1:21.9 | love to show them is you giving them some advice and to what to do after high school if |
| 1:27.5 | they don't want to go to college because coming for me it's like you're the teacher. |
| 1:33.0 | You're the teacher. I teach 9th grade literature. I actually I think you up on Twitter a |
| 1:40.4 | while ago when you were looking for school to come I actually yeah yep we have. |
| 1:45.4 | I'll go back to work without. Go ahead. Okay. So what could you speak to my students to |
| 1:50.7 | kind of give them something to you know that they're not just here and me but they know who |
| 1:56.0 | you are. We watch your videos in class. They keep asking me like they're like you know like so |
| 2:03.7 | like I'm always giving them your information and telling them what I think you would say but |
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