A short motivational monologue by Chase Fisher arguing that traditional college paths often don't lead to wealth for most people and that entrepreneurship and attention-driven problem-solving are a better route for building time, location, and financial freedom. Fisher contrasts costly degrees and unemployment with young internet entrepreneurs earning large incomes, cites his own monthly profit (about $20–40k) and a friend making $500k/month, and urges betting on oneself and taking risks.
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I worked my ass off in high school, got a 4.6 GPA and still decided not to go to college. Look at the statistics. Look at people around you. There's people getting master's degrees, eight years of college, hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and cannot find a job at Starbucks. Then you see 17 year olds on the Internet making hundreds of thousands of dollars from their phones. Yes, I am cherry picking both sides, but the fact that that is even possible should show you something. What's gonna make you more money is looking where a problem is and solving. Simply put, for 99% of people outside of doctors, lawyers and engineers, college is not gonna get you to your goals. And this sounds like a whole anti college campaign, but I'm never gonna just understand that. If you want to build wealth, you have to gather attention and then solve a problem. Right now it is the easiest time to be distracted, but it is also the easiest time to be wildly successful. Now, I pull about 20 to 40k from this desk every month in profit and I'm very grateful to be here. But my buddy's making 500k a month, so there really is levels to this. But 99% of people will never even get to play this type of game. But all the people who chose the different path went the way that most people don't want to go, get to live a life that is different. They get to travel, they get to buy cool things, they get to help the people around them and they have time, location and financial freedom. All because they took the other path. But without taking that risk and betting on themselves, they would not have got any of that.