Why You Should Consider Quitting College | Ep 450
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Alex Hormozi
4.9 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
If you had the choice to go back, would you go to college again? Or make your own path? Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) shares with us the insightful talk he had with his 18-Year-Old about not going to college, giving him different perspectives on if he chose one path or the other. He also talks about the cost of college vs. the opportunity cost of going to college, choosing the path that gives you long-term success, investing in skills and learnings, skill-stacking, and accepting that failure is part of the process.
Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.
Timestamps:
(4:47) - Restructure education: Majors based on business departments for job relevance.
(11:08) - Choose paths for long-term success; embrace initial challenges for growth.
(17:09) - Master your passion, self-teach, share learnings, build valuable skills.
(21:12) - Alternatives to college: Apply to companies, invest in courses, seek mentors.
(31:27) - Create access to mentors, appreciate imperfect advice, skill-stacking importance.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Moisturization real quick, if you are a business owner that has a big old business and wants to get to a much bigger business, |
| 0:06.1 | going to $50, $100,000 plus we would love to talk to you. |
| 0:09.5 | And if you like that or would like to hear more about it, go to acquisition.com and you can plan anywhere on the page |
| 0:14.4 | and talk to one of our team and see if we can help you get there. |
| 0:17.7 | Which of these two paths will lead me closer to where I want to go? |
| 0:20.9 | And if the goal is to make income, then you have to look at that $200,000. |
| 0:25.2 | And all the things you could buy with that $200,000 in four years of time and think is there another way that I could reverse engineer four years to get me to where I want to go? |
| 0:36.6 | The wealthiest people in the world see business as a game. |
| 0:38.6 | This podcast, the game is my attempt at documenting the lessons I've learned on my way to building acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio. |
| 0:44.6 | My hope is that you use the lessons to grow your business and maybe someday soon partner with us to get $200,000 from beyond. |
| 0:49.1 | I hope you share and enjoy. |
| 0:51.6 | This is for every 17 year old, 16 year old, 18 year old, 19 year old who's considering going to college or quitting college right now. |
| 0:57.6 | Either they're going to do it, they're thinking about doing their in it and they want to leave or you're somebody who knows somebody who's in that situation or you're the parent of somebody who's facing that decision. |
| 1:07.1 | I want to give you context for the decision so that you can make one that's less emotional and less for the wrong reasons and ideally for the right reasons. |
| 1:15.1 | The reason I wanted to make this is because there is an 18 year old neighbor of mine who after going through his first semester of college and I had some rapport with him came back home was like, I don't know if I like this. |
| 1:24.1 | I don't know if this is for me. |
| 1:25.1 | We went on a one hour walk that I think changed his life. |
| 1:27.1 | He went from going to Pepperdown which is really expensive school in San Diego to dropping out. |
| 1:33.1 | His friends, his family, his friends parents started looking at him different. |
| 1:36.1 | He was like the trouble child. |
| 1:37.1 | He was like the I don't know about him. |
| 1:39.1 | Two years later he now has 250,000 dollars saved up as a 20 year old. |
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