A critique of the prescribed path: good grades, college, credentialed job. The speaker argues you can't truly win a game whose rules you didn't choose, and asks whether the boldest move is refusing to play at all.
The safe thing is to play a game that you didn't sign up for by somebody else's— I mean, that's the way society programs and conditions us, right? Like, get the good grades, you'll be rewarded by getting into a good college. Get more good grades, you'll be rewarded with a piece of paper that helps you get a good job doing things. Again, a lot of the time you're doing things that you don't want to do. You're playing a game that you didn't sign up for by rules that you don't agree with, and the The question is, can you win a game that you don't want to play? And if you wake up to that, the riskiest thing in the world is to say, I'm going to not play the game that I inherited.
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