When you were growing up you probably had your parents or family tell you that
if you wanted to be successful you had to make sure you got good grades in
school those good grades would be the key to getting into a top school which
would offer you the best education and ultimately a high paying job while this
advice may have been relevant years ago more and more we see that those who
stray from this traditional path are the ones who become rich while the educated
live their whole lives in financial mediocrity and in this video I will
share with you why good grades won't make you rich and if you're new to the
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reality is that school isn't what it used to be back in the day getting a
college degree meant acquiring an affordable education that would offer
you a very reasonable salary upon entering the workforce that would only
grow Over time however times have changed now students are taking on tens
of thousands of dollars worth of debt with no assurance that their efforts
will yield them a lucrative job or a job in general where what's worse though is
the mindset that is adopted to the process of attending college in fact
this indoctrination is the Catalyst of why going to school and striving for
good grades leaves people in worse Financial positions than they ever
intended to be in and I think these detriments can be summarized by the
following seven aspects number one linear thinking if you study many of the
most successful people you will come to realize that they weren't the ones who
scored the best grades or got the most prestigious degrees they made a name for
themselves by thinking differently they use this unique way of thinking to bring
new ideas to life and it's why those who we will refer to as C students are more
successful than high academic Achievers or a students in essence they're more
Innovative thinkers sure they may not Excel writing essays taking notes during
lectures or memorizing information from a textbook but that absolutely does not
mean that this will deter them from being successful in fact we tend to see
that though those who are not as academically inclined are more creative
and inventive they learn to be clever in a way that school could never teach you
that's why Innovative thinking is such an incredibly common trait amongst the
top one percent of successful people you see most jobs aren't set up for creative
thinking you are given a task and are expected to complete it you perform the
cycle day in and day out year after year until you retire and while not only does
this cause disengagement in your work but it also won't make you rich those
who become rich generate ideas then use every waking day to bring that idea into
reality and like Bill Gates in a personal computer or Steve Jobs with the
iPhone actualizing these dreams can make you extremely rich number two risk
aversion when it comes to high academic Achievers keeping risks low is often a
priority it's why they subject themselves to the standardized path of
going to school getting a job and writing out 40 years of work until they
retire unfortunately this path makes very few people Rich cease students as
we've defined them are not afraid to take risks they're not intimidated by
failure or worry about looking bad because they don't expect everything to
go perfectly because of this willingness to fail they are perfectly positioned to
build businesses that will not only change the world but will make them Rich
take Richard Branson for example he wasn't afraid to try his hand at a
variety of businesses that many people would think were crazy like starting his
own Airline or private Aerospace company and this is one critical mistake that
straight A students make they attach their future earning potential to
whatever job they can acquire because they are too afraid of the risk that
entrepreneurship presents now of course not everyone needs to run their own
business but even as an employee you often need to take risks to progress
whether that's interviewing for a better position or starting a new career some
degree of risk must be taken and when done right the outcome can be quite
favorable however when going through the traditional education system this
appetite for risk can be dulled which is just another reason why good grades
won't make you rich number three qualification dependency when you've
adopted the mindset of the high achieving student your grades and
accolades start to make up the basis of your personal self-worth every a on your
report card and every award you win is how you assure yourself that you are
progressing in life unfortunately these grades really don't mean anything after
college but one thing that certainly does is your passion however these a
students become too wrapped up in getting the best grades that they fail
to make time to really ask themselves what subjects they are truly passionate
about and how they can make a career out of it well you would think that this
qualification dependency would only impact these students education and
career the issue goes much deeper this mindset affects their friends family and
even their health is a majority of their thoughts revolve around how other people
see them in school these people were rewarded for being as impressive as
possible and just because you graduate doesn't mean that this mindset will go
away on the other hand C students don't care as much about pressing the rest of
the world they're not worried about what other people's expectations are of them
because no one was expecting as many amazing things from them in the first
place their parents and teachers probably weren't telling them to go to
Ivy League schools or that they're destined for lifelong success so they
learned how to satisfy themselves before anyone else and this mindset allows them
to work on projects that are outside the norm aka the ones that have the
potential to make them Rich number four educational outcome in a traditional
life path of going to college completing a career and then retiring education is
perceived as a stepping stone towards future success and this view is mainly
adopted by those who strive to achieve the best of grades each test is a small
effort towards the bigger goal of trading in that degree for a secure high
paying job but if you are a 9-5 worker then you've probably come to the
realization that while your job offers to you things like a reliable paycheck
and benefits it is not likely to make you rich in fact it is typically those
who bypass this educate education stepping stone that are the ones who
become rich take the example of people like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg who
dropped out of college they recognized that this traditional path was not for
them and as a result left school to pursue their personal Ventures sure
these two intelligent men could have easily toughed it out and completed
their degrees but this would have meant giving up time that they could have used
to help build their dream businesses which as we now know would have been a
huge mistake in essence they took that leap and left their education behind
they bet everything on themselves and for many of them it actually worked out
number five strictly following the rules school is full of rules Bells tell you
when to eat schedules tell you which classes to attend and teachers tell you
what to learn so it's no surprise that straight A students are great at
following the rules because doing so means getting top marks and getting into
the best schools these same students are the ones who never question authority
and confine their thinking to whatever their professor they're teaching sure
this will probably lead to getting top marks in a solid education but it
definitely doesn't mean that you will become rich you see this is the path
that just about everyone takes and when something is common its value begins to
decline take the example of a college degree back 50 years ago if you had a
college degree you would be guaranteed a job for life with amazing pay and
benefits but now that everyone has a degree it's not uncommon to see these
graduates unemployed or working minimum wage jobs because their degrees no
longer offer a competitive advantage in their field the reality is that those
who break away from the pack are the ones who truly excel in the accumulation
of wealth take Elon Musk as an example he broke the Norms of both the Aerospace
and electric car industries by creating his own private company and has now seen
tremendous success as a result sure not everyone will be Elon Musk but it's a
testament to the fact that sometimes rules are meant to be broken number six
the right to success let me put this button no one is entitled to success it
doesn't matter how long you work how smart you are or how much money you've
invested success is something that you have to fight for and earn for yourself
the problem is many above average students think success is just another
part of their lives sure they had great marks in high school and did well in
college but this absolutely doesn't mean that they will achieve significant
wealth in their lifetime sadly I had to learn this lesson the hard way when I
completed my Master's Degree I figured that a lucrative salary and comfortable
lifestyle was right around the corner well I was wrong in fact even with this
extensive education I was making about as much as all my peers this parody and
pay led me to becoming very frustrated and confused and that's why I learned
that there's much more to achieving financial success than just getting a
fancy degree in fact this is another reason why less successful students end
up achieving more in their careers or business ventures than those who have
always gotten good grades they don't expect anything to come to them and as a
result often work twice as hard to prove themselves and to others that you can be
successful in life without getting good grades number seven leveraging hardship
the majority people see failure as something negative they work hard to
avoid it at all costs and generally those who get good grades are spared the
pain and disappointment that comes with failing but if you're a mediocre student
you know how it feels to fail and what it's like to watch others pass you by
you're no stranger to the pain of failing and having those around you
start to expect less from you maybe somebody told you that without good
grades you won't be successful or that because you're not a top student that
you're not that intelligent but going through this adversity is actually a
critical component to being successful in life you see facing hardship builds
character and when you were spared this adversity as many great students are you
lack the opportunity to overcome these emotional events but no one goes through
life without some hardship and the sooner you can face failure the sooner
you can use it to propel you forward which is why ceased students often
achieve more success because after facing enough failures in their lives
they aren't afraid to try new things and deviate from the standard path which
I've already said is often a way that you become rich hey it looks like
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