No human being anywhere on the planet
will ever need a college degree again, starting from 2025.
So Simon Sinek recently released this video,
is college really necessary?
And I wanted to share why I disagree with Simon.
Now, firstly, I love Simon Sinek, love his books,
but I strongly disagree that college is necessary.
- Yes, college still has value in our lives.
- No, Simon is confusing college with education.
What I'm going to suggest
is that there is a whole new model for education
that's emerging, Mindvalley is creating it,
that is going to make college irrelevant.
But everything that Simon says is necessary,
there's just a far better way to provide it people,
you do not have to be sending your kids to college.
- Do we need the subjects in college?
Not really, most of the stuff we'll study in college
we won't need in future, in our future,
and it won't help us be successful.
- This is actually true.
The subjects that you are learning in college
often aren't necessary.
So let me share the data for that.
The 2010 US census study showed that only 30%
of American college graduates
actually work in jobs where they are using
what they learned in college.
This means almost 70% of Americans are working in fields
where what they learned in college is utterly unnecessary.
Simon is right, those skills are important,
but the way college is bringing it out to people
is so expensive and sub optimal.
So this is where we're going.
And this is why I believe Mindvalley
is going to replace college.
The first thing is we are building a robust curriculum
of the skills that really lead to human transformation.
It's powered by an AI called EVE.
EVE, it's named after my daughter, Eve,
but EVE also stands for everyone elevates.
We look at everything that makes human beings better.
And then as people are learning on Mindvalley,
this AI analyzes
what are the qualities of the top students?
And it updates the learning, it updates the curriculum.
Everyone elevates based on everyone's behavior.
This is a self-learning system.
It is more intelligent
than any curriculum designer on the planet.
Now, Simon also speaks about
the benefits of human connection.
This is where it gets really interesting.
The problem with college is that yes,
you can get great connections on campus,
but you're only connecting with other people on that campus
who all happen to be freaking 19 years old.
What if we can connect with people across the world,
people of every age group,
this is where Mindvalley is going next.
Our digital campus employs a new technology
where we're building the world's most advanced
human to human matching engine.
No matter where in the world you are,
we are soon going to be able to predict who in your city
will be most likely to be a close best spring.
With this human matching engine,
we can literally predict who to introduce you to.
So you fall in love or so you find a best friend
or so you find a job
or so you find the co-founder for your business.
This is a really complex task,
but we've gotten some of the world's best AI specialists
involved in this.
And soon Mindvalley will be able to give you
a better network than any university out there.
- It's also the first time in a classroom
where your professors will expect you to disagree.
In high school, largely you do as you're told,
you take the test and that's it.
In college, it's about discussion
and it's about disagreement.
And sometimes there are no right answers.
So one of the things you'll learn is how to disagree,
how to form an argument.
- Phenomenal, how to disagree, how to form an argument.
Ooh, this is where it gets so exciting.
Mindvalley is building a human to human,
augmented intelligence facility.
Now what this means is this,
when you are on the Mindvalley platform
and you are learning, we are creating a new type of tool
where you take your learnings, your critical reflection,
your notes, your journals, and you put it into a system
that is best described as a brain connection device.
You're connected to different brains
and you learn from other people and they learn from you.
The algorithm that we're deploying
actually encourages disagreement.
It encourages you to connect across the political divide.
It gets every student to also be a teacher.
So I love Simon and I hate to disagree so bluntly.
Simon is saying college still has value in our life,
but he is assuming that that's the only answer.
There's a better way.
And you're about to see Mindvalley go head on
and compete with the entire idea of college globally.
I promise you this guys,
and I'm going to put my money where my mouth is.
Within five years,
any human being anywhere on the planet
can get all the same advantages in life as a Harvard degree,
without spending the ungodly school fees on Harvard.
You will be able to do it
for under $500 a year on Mindvalley.
And we're doing this by rethinking the curriculum,
rethinking the teacher, rethinking how students connect,
rethinking the campus by deploying exponential technologies.
We're not just replacing college, guys,
we're building the single best product on the planet
that any human being can spend money on,
better than an iPhone, better than a Tesla car,
because no other product relative to the
tiny amount that you invest in
gives you the transformation and quality of life cues
that a Mindvalley membership gives.
So stay tuned.
And if you're currently already a member,
know that everything is coming back to you
and know that we owe you adaptive gratitude
for believing in us when this was just a crazy idea.