The hosts argue that followers, likes, and grades distort how we measure success. They propose a ratio of accomplishment to hours invested: a B+ earned in 3 hours beats an A that took 50. The real value lies in unmeasured work on relationships and growth that no metric captures.
It's almost like everyone should be doing an audit of themselves. Yeah. Are you investing too much of your time into things that are too easy to measure? And if you are, you might be missing out on some of the best things that life has to offer.
I firmly believe that grades should be given as a ratio. Okay. So it should be the level of accomplishment, A, B, C, D, over the number of hours you studied. My friends in college, one friend I'm thinking of, he was an A over 50. Right? He's a straight-A student. He worked his brains out. I was a B+ over 3. Now let's leave college alone and let's come into the real world. I was always very stressed out with people who were my peers. Yes, they're making bigger deals, they're making more money, their social media following is bigger than mine, and I beat myself up. I'm not good enough, I'm not smart enough, I don't have the work ethic they have. And that's when it occurred to me, hold on, that they're A's over 50 and I'm a B+ over 3. I'm very happy with my B+ in the world. Yeah, I really like my life. We compare how much money we make, how many followers we've got, all of the very simple to measure metrics.
Easier to measure.
The easier to measure. People either work extremely hard to chase those metrics— followers, clicks, likes, revenue— or worse, they're comparing their actual worth, their own self-worth, to somebody whose numbers are higher.
Yeah.
Until you add the ratio.
Yes. The things that are harder to measure seem to matter more.
Yes.
Everything that goes into the grade is easy to measure. B+ over 3. The thing that's not explicitly stated is what's happening with the other 47. And that's time that's being invested into things that are harder to measure. But if we actually look through what is on that list, those are the things that matter the most. Yes.
