Frankly, the more I reflect on my University and High School education, the more I think it was poorly thought out. I've spent an enormous amount of time learni

Frankly, the more I reflect on my University and High School education, the more I think it was poorly thought out. I've spent an enormous amount of time learning advanced Math, Sciences, or other such topics that are utterly irrelevant to my practical career. And I'm saying this as someone who's successful enough to be making mid-6-figures. The only useful skill I've picked up from all those classes, is grit and hard work. I've learnt how to put my head down, and grind my way to success. Useful skills to be sure, but I could have learnt that by doing literally anything. "Build a Facebook clone" would have taught me grit just as well, while also teaching me practical skills relevant to my career. I see a lot of posturing about how college education isn't meant to be "vocational" and should teach you how to think, but I don't buy it. The free time I've spent volunteering at my college newspaper, and reading/writing philosophy, taught me far more critical thinking skills than the majority of college classes that I've taken. Looking back, 80% of the value that I got from my college classes, came from the 20% of courses that are "vocational" and relevant to my career. If not for the resume-padding benefits of going to college, I would have been better off going to a elite bootcamp and then spending another 6 months self-teaching myself anything that the bootcamp didn't.