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Believe it, it's possible to not succeed yet want to succeed more than anyone else on the planet. Go to college. Take 4 years to earn a qualification as somet
by coherentpony 13y ago
Believe it, it's possible to not succeed yet want to succeed more than anyone else on the planet. Go to college. Take 4 years to earn a qualification as something to lean back on just in case anything goes wrong.
You'll still be 18 in college. You can still do things on the side. You are 17 years old, and have no experience dealing with other people. The fact you are willing to let anyone invest in you without knowing them speaks volumes about how little you know how hard it is to succeed. Despite wanting to.
Edit: s/no\ /very\ little\ /g
- wittedhaddock 13y agoThank you for the feedback. I am not willing to let anyone invest in me; that was not made clear.
- carterschonwald 13y agoAgreed. To effectively grow or run a business, fluency in risk and payoff distributions of your decisions is important. Taking the time to up your education a bit decreases the downside risk of failure, forces you to learn a wider range of material than you (realistically) will teach yourself, and it doesn't hurt that brain cognitive development doesn't really end till 22-24 age range in most people. These all improve the payoff distribution of any decisions subsequently made. As someone working on/in entrepreneurial tech myself: 1) the vast majority of interesting engineering challenges are within larger organizations (and thats awesome) 2) Nothing is worth sacrificing your health, nothing. Your health is the best predictor of how productive you can be intellectually. Any willingness to forgo health indicates a deep failure of understanding how to be productive 3) go to school and force yourself to take hard classes. The coolest tech opportunities lie in having DEEP understanding of topics. There are amazing engineers out there who never finished college and they're great people, but they all really regret not having finished their undergraduate. Every single one of them, if they could got back in time, would force themselves to finish undergraduate degrees 4) dropping out is ok come graduate school though :)
- wittedhaddock 13y agoI think Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates would disagree.
- asenna 13y agoAll of them had things taking off before they decided to drop school.
- fallinghawks 13y agoYou reject reasonable, considered arguments from smart people who have been through what you've been through and advise you to go in a specific direction. So it looks like you've already made up your mind about what you want to do.
- wittedhaddock 13y agoI made up my mind when I bypassed the DNS restriction.
- coherentpony 13y agoI know they would disagree. That said, you've listed 5 people out of, probably, millions that did the same and didn't make it.
- wittedhaddock 13y agoIf you drop out to do what you love, you've already made it.
- homakov 13y ago>Believe it, it's possible to not succeed yet want to succeed more than anyone else on the planet absolutely
- wittedhaddock 13y agoI wholeheartedly disagree.
- nwmcsween 13y agoWhat separates success from failure is the ability to learn from your failures and to try again. You failed at both so far.
- wittedhaddock 13y agoWould you please be more specific?
- nwmcsween 13y agoI don't know the conditions of why you left but assuming it's relevant to the letter then you failed to focus on things that matter like school, family, etc. This is a life lesson that cannot be learned with words alone, family and friends are much more important than money or success, it takes many a lifetime to learn this.
- homakov 13y agoread the black swan
- kyle4211 13y agoIt is possible, absolutely. However, in effectively all my personal relationships, success correlates strongly with magnitude of desire.