Peter Winick and Brad Godfrey discuss why most people stop learning after school. Godfrey notes that 60% of undergraduate material becomes irrelevant soon after graduation, and compares a doctor who hasn't learned since 1978 to professionals who don't keep up. Lifelong learners stay relevant; everyone else becomes obsolete.
So why isn't there a preparatory academy for, you know, success, like billionaire prep or something? Billionaire Prep Academy.
I think some of that ties to personalities, right? So someone like you, someone like me, we're lifelong learners, right? Like, I'm the biggest dork that's reading 2 or 3 books. I can't get enough of stuff. Why? I'm just fascinated with the world. I'm trying to take the pieces of it that I can apply to me and I can apply to my business and do something with. There are other people that the day they graduated, whatever X was, high school, college, grad school, whatever, that was it, right? They stopped learning and they know all they need to know. A recent study I read is by the time an undergrad graduates today, 60% of what they've learned in the 4 years they're there is no longer relevant. So if you don't learn how to learn, you're done. Would you wanna, if you had a headache and somebody said, hey, Brad Godfrey, you got a brain tumor, you gotta go to this doc, he's a brain doc. He graduated in 1978, hasn't learned a damn thing since. How happy are you going to be about that?
Not very.
Yeah. But how do most people treat their careers, their professions, their life? I'm all right. I got it. It's good.
Yeah. I think we're kind of programmed to be like that.
Some.
