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The facts are there, but, I believe, if you're a hustler, a self-starter, an entrepreneur - You're going to make it work for yourself, one way or another, with
by stevencorona 14y ago
The facts are there, but, I believe, if you're a hustler, a self-starter, an entrepreneur - You're going to make it work for yourself, one way or another, with or without a college degree. Because it's all you know.
Likewise, if you don't have passion, you're going to have a much harder time competing with other degree-holding passionless people. You know, the kind of people that spend 8 hours/day blindly applying to shit on Monster.com instead of doing something different and standing out.
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoThat's the biggest false dichotomy, piled on top of a whopping huge tautology, that I've ever seen. EDIT: Ok, you deserve more explanation than that. Claiming that "true hustlers" will always succeed is the tautology, because after all, it means someone who doesn't succeed mustn't have been a true hustler. It also sounds like something a drug-dealer says to satisfy their success. "Hustle" is a positively-connoted abstraction that doesn't actually mean much, rather like "work ethic" or "education". The false dichotomy is the one between "entrepreneurs" on the one hand and mindless 9-5 drones who produce little and deserve nothing on the other. This one is, like "hustle", a very small phrase that wraps up a very large Just So Story people tell themselves to justify their own position in life while dealing with the cognitive dissonance of knowing deserving-seeming people who don't have what they have.
- nutjob123 14y agoI can't tell if your're serious with the first point. Either way I reject the idea that a person can be successful simply by possessing a positive attitude. Or that facts should be dismissed for anecdote.
- randomdata 14y agoHaving the right attitude doesn't always lead to success, but having the wrong attitude always leads to failure. There is a positive correlation between those who are strong willed and determined and those who complete college, which most likely explains why college graduates tend to fare better in the workforce – graduates generally all share that same attitude, whereas non-graduates are a mixed bag.
- pessimizer 14y agoI succeed a lot with a terrible attitude. Go figure.
- stevewilhelm 14y agothe hustler, self-starter, and entrepreneur is the last person who should forego college. college is one of the most efficient places to learn the lessons of millennia of hustle, starting, entrepreneurship that proceeded you. it is also an invaluable place to make important personal and professional connections with professors and fellow students.