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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This video is for every 17 year old, 16 year old, 18 year old, 19 year old who's considering going to college or quitting college right now.
What should I consider before deciding to go to college?
Should I spend the next four years going to college, hopefully I can equip the parents and the kids to make a call with as little societal pressure as possible. When I lived in Austin, my next door neighbor was 18 years old. He was at this important decision in his life where he was deciding whether he was gonna go to college. And I knew his parents, and it's kind of interesting because I sit halfway between his parents and him, so I kind of have both sides. He decided to enroll at Pepperdine. After a semester, he didn't really like it. And I think a lot of it was because it was just kind of expected that he go to college there. I had developed a rapport with him and he used to work out with me at my home gym after school and whatnot.
How can I evaluate the opportunity cost of attending college?
And so I was like, hey man, let's go for a walk. And I think we walked for about an hour and we just walked around the neighborhood. And I'm pretty sure that that conversation significantly shifted the trajectory of his life. we go all right the reason most people to go to college is because that is what's expected they don't think about the decision they just do it because it feels like the next natural path it's the same thing for having kids and getting married and buying a house but let's not get into that he went from going to pepperdine to dropping out his friends his family his friends parents started looking at him different he was like the troubled child he's like i don't know about him two years later he now has 250 000 saved up as a 20 year old makes 200 000 a year right now as a sales guy
What I want to do is break down the split in the road of two different lives that he could have lived or that you could live or that somebody that you know who's facing the decision could go through. And I'll tell you how the conversation I had with him went. What's up, man? So I said, listen, you're at a crossroads right now. We have crossroads every day in our lives. I was like, but some crossroads are bigger than others. And when you're trying to make a decision, you have to think, how reversible is this decision? And how much long-term impact does it have?
What practical skills should I focus on instead of a college degree?
If I'm choosing between Chinese and Mexican for lunch, it's a split in the road and it's really not gonna affect much for me down the road. Choosing to go and commit four years of my life between 50 and $200,000 of money and the lost income that I would have made during that period of time, those are very big, irreversible decisions and they need to be treated with the same amount of respect. And a lot of people don't because they make that decision because their parents are telling them to, which seems like the overused one. But realistically, because they don't want to be the kid who did it wrong, who didn't do what they were supposed to do and didn't do the next natural step. That's a terrible reason to go to college.
I would like you to approach it with a decision making framework that makes sense. So it starts with and this is me telling him this. I was like, what problem are you solving? He's like, well, I want to make money. So the question is, four years from now, if you have a degree and you lost the money and you lost the earning potential you had during those four years, is that you more able to generate income than an alternative you? Because what we have to analyze is not the cost of college, but the opportunity cost of going to college. is the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen. So when we choose to go to college, there's an opportunity cost that exists and it is the single greatest cost that people do not take into consideration.
It's the cost of not doing, of what you could have done in the meantime.
What decision-making framework can help me choose my career path?
One is it's gonna cost you money because you actually gotta spend money to do it. The second way it costs you money is that you're not gonna earn what you probably could earn full-time working if that's what you wanted to do.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:06
2
What should I consider before deciding to go to college?
0:06–0:40
3
How can I evaluate the opportunity cost of attending college?
0:40–1:45
4
What practical skills should I focus on instead of a college degree?
1:45–2:53
5
What decision-making framework can help me choose my career path?
2:53–3:25
6
How do I assess the long-term impact of my educational choices?
3:25–3:59
7
What alternatives to college can lead to financial success?
3:59–4:30
8
How important is continuous learning and personal development?
4:30–13:50
Speakers
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