Kyle Winey launches Hackiversity, a podcast interviewing recent college graduates about how they used the 80/20 principle to achieve success. The show focuses on doing less to accomplish more in college and beyond.
Welcome to the hackiversity Podcast, where students learn how to achieve more by doing less in college. Learn the hacks from wildly successful recent college graduates as your host, Kyle Whine explores the colleges, majors and paths that produce the biggest results in college using less effort. It's hacking time.
Hello all you college hackers out there. This is episode zero of the hackiversity Podcast. My name is Kyle Wienie. I'm the author of the Secrets to Achieving More by Doing Less in College. As part of the hackiversity Podcast, I find recent college graduates who have become rock stars in their job and in their career. Shortly after graduation, my interviews reveal the tools, tricks and paths of those thriving both personally and professionally. I'll be interviewing graduates in science, business, liberal arts, and everything in between. It will be very wide ranging while exploring the step by step process of how they found success. As you'll see, the best part of achieving superhuman results during and after college is that you don't have to be superhuman in the first place. My approach to every interview is to embrace the 8020 principle, which states that a small amount of things matter, and those small amount of things matter a lot, while a lot of things don't matter one bit. I was first exposed to the 8020 principle after reading a book written by Richard Koch called very fittingly, the 8020 principle, which has sold over 1 million copies. Richard has also written the foreword to my book Hackiversity, which I could not be more thrilled about. Using the 8020 principle in my interviews helps students discover the things that matter most across particular majors, industries and careers. Consider this an exploration into college productivity on steroids. I stumbled across applying the 8020 principle to college, or a concept I call hacking College by comparing my college experience with that of my fraternity brother. You see, in college, I did everything right. I studied hard, I aced my exams, and as a result, I graduated at the top of my class from the College of Business at Penn State. Since I did everything I was supposed to do, I expected what everyone promised I should receive in return. That is a job. The problem was, by graduation, I had zero job offers. That's right, zero. I don't even think employers knew I existed. The great irony was, in college, I watched my fraternity brother do everything you're not supposed to do. He frequently slept in after watching movies all night, and he skipped class to perfect his FIFA skills on Xbox. The rare times my fraternity brother actually studied occurred a day or two before an exam when he would do the least amount possible just to get by. In short, my Fraternity brother was one of the biggest slackers I knew in college. From the outside, you would think that my fraternity brother would have received zero job offers at graduation, but you'd be wrong. Instead, my fraternity brother landed the job. Every ambitious business student wanted an opportunity on Wall Street. Following my graduation from Penn State, I enrolled in law school, mainly because I didn't want to be unemployed after college. I distinctly remember a telephone call with my fraternity brother during my first year of law school. How is law school going? He asked. It's pretty rough, man, I complained. I'm studying 60 to 80 hours a week just trying to stay afloat. How's Wall street going for you? In response, my fraternity brother roared with laughter. No, I didn't crack a joke. He was laughing at me. Throughout college, I had poked fun at my fraternity brother for not taking college seriously, but here he was, excelling in one of the most coveted jobs of my college class. And there I was, taking on over $100,000 in student loans with job prospects no better than a year earlier. After the laughter stopped, my fraternity brother finally said, dude, I'm helping to manage over $300 million. I. I'm killing it here. Yes, he was. But there I was, studying harder than ever and getting burned out doing it. How could such different college approaches lead to two radically different career paths? I was supposed to be the one on Wall street, not my fraternity brother. What was going on? After my phone call with my fraternity brother, a long overdue light bulb exploded in my brain. I finally realized what should have occurred to me much, much earlier. My story, along with millions of others like it, demonstrates that hard work, good grades, and a college diploma no longer guarantee a job. Period. My fraternity brother understood that better than anyone else. In fact, he was a pure genius at identifying what he needed to do at college, which was not much, and what he did not need to do, which was most things in order to achieve precisely what he wanted. That's the 8020 principle in action. In other words, the secret to unlocking college success is not simply about working hard and doing well. Turns out there's much more to it. My goal in every episode is to enable incoming or current college students to walk away with step by step action items which they can use to achieve more by doing less in college. I hope you all join me for a ride that can save you hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition, bolster your job prospects, and help you land the job of your dreams. Think that's too much to ask? The people I interview don't stick around to see what I mean. Until then, as I like to say, happy Hacking.
If you want more Hackiversity and achieving more by doing less in college, you can subscribe to the podcast on itunes or grab the book on Amazon. For the show notes and the latest on hackiversity, check out Kyle W whiny.com don't forget to follow Kyle on Twitter at Kyle Whiny and on facebook@facebook.com hackaversity Till next time, Happy hacking.
