I did. Despite loving to learn, and spending a lot of time self learning, I never excelled in school. I skated by in High school, but my parents weren't pumped

I did. Despite loving to learn, and spending a lot of time self learning, I never excelled in school. I skated by in High school, but my parents weren't pumped about paying for me to fail through college. I dropped out Junior year to teach English in Brazil. After I got back I realized I'm a college dropout, with a work experience in manual labor & restaurants, and I knew no one would hire me to do the things I wanted to learn. So I started a company on an idea I was passionate about. I told myself from day 1, whether the venture was successful or not, I was going to learn the skills and meet the people to do whatever I wanted to do next. The venture was not successful, and I did meet the people and learn the skills to do whatever I wanted to do after, and it lead great places.