C students are more successful

24 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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This is a short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video ("C students are more successful") where the speaker argues that academic grades do not predict real-world success. The speaker claims the most successful people are "C students," emphasizing risk-taking, confidence, and character over memorization. They state schools should teach basic literacy and numeracy while parents are responsible for character development—celebrating failures and prompting children nightly with the question, “What did you fail at today?” to build resilience.

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The richest people you know are probably C students. The skill of being successful is not memorization. It's risk taking. It's confidence. It's believing in yourself. The only thing I ask my school is to make sure my kids can read, write, and do basic math. Everything else, it's on me. I truly believe every kid is homeschooled. It's whether the parents know it or not. I will take care of the character development. I will take care of the risk taking. I will celebrate their failures. You know, every night when they go to bed, I ask them, what did you fail at today? I want to know something you actually really wanted. You tried for. You were worried about yet anxiety route and you did it anyway. You were scared and you did it anyway. I want to celebrate that because if I can instill that muscle that's worth more than straight A's.