Dropout or stay in school?

[houstradamus]

My parents don't mind about me not going to college or university, they mind about my true success. That's rare from parents, I'm lucky to have them!

[sunnychopper]

If you're not motivated for school but you can get up for entrepreneurship and work your butt off, that might be a sign to look more into entrepreneurship. Don't ignore your energy.

[GabrielStGermain]

I watched this 2 years ago and it helped convince me to drop out... haven't looked back since.

[callenecarstens]

"Schools want to say capitalism sucks. Schools are using the capitalistic system at a whole different place." I applaud you for saying this. Very nice. It's a total double standard.

[kirko]

As a 25-year-old. I completely agree with everything you've said. I figured all of this out after a couple years in college. Since I switched from Chemistry to Business major, I wish I could of dropped out, parents wouldn't allow me to though. In my senior year finally after wasting so much time going part-time and working. Finally actually taking classes that do anything with business. They don't even let you take classes to do with your major until you're half way through your junior year because they know they're a waste, and they just want to take your money.

[fillup]

I dropped out of school shortly after reading his book regarding this subject. It's now been 3 years. I have a fully thriving company with a warehouse, employees, and company trucks. Pat, if you see this comment, thank you so much from the bottom of heart. You've changed my life and the lives of my future generations.

[justingrubbs]

I couldn't agree more. I am 21 years old with no college degree. I do however own and operate my own business, I have 1 employee, am currently studying to get my real estate license, I regularly invest in myself, and I take care of my 86 year old grandmother that raised me. I made my choice to become an entrepreneur because I had a reoccurring problem; I couldn't hold a job. This wasn't because I didn't have good work ethic, it was because there was a limit to how much I could earn every hour/week. I am the type of person that needs to be compensated based on the amount of effort I put forth. If I make nothing then it is because I am not doing something correctly. The opposite is also true; if I am successful, it is because of my effort, ambition, and ability to learn from others mistakes, not because of a college degree. I advocate education; whether that is in the form of a degree or not should be based on your personal circumstances and characteristics.

[ToxxicFlames]

I'm a college freshman... and I kinda just needed someone to tell me it is ok to find yourself.

[SB-hsyn]

"Who said you need to go to college from 18 to 22?" I am so glad that I didn't enter college right away. I had some money saved up and decided to travel since I didn't yet know what I wanted. In that year of travel, I learned a second language, met amazing new people and landed a job as a translator. I wouldn't have had those experiences had I went straight into university.

[json]

Three types of people here

1. You actually feel like dropping out and are looking for ideas due to uncertainty.

2. Randomly browsing

3. Students with a huge final coming up and watching this instead of studying.

[ibrahimmorris]

What you were saying about the peer pressure from parents is totally true. I have been going to schools which are seen as schools for generally wealthier people, and the amount of pressure most parents in these type of schools put on their kids to go to universities or colleges "that have a good name" is insane. The funny thing is most of the pressure is not even about the learning environment or the standard of education that those colleges or universities have, but the parents trying to boast about how intelligent their kids are and how prestigious the schools are that they attend.
It's almost like a competition where the parent which has their kids in the best school wins all the respect. It is really sad that most wealthier parents don't even recognize the damage this does to their kids as their kids don't even persuade careers they want, solely because of the parents sense of self-importance.  

Please reply if you can relate to this, I would really like to know your view about this problem.

[sstalks]

I think this is one of the most valuable videos on Youtube this time, I'm from India and people in my country have wrong attitude or wrong approach towards education and learning as most of them either under peer pressure or under the influence of parents end up in engineering, medical colleges without knowing the actual reason why they are really there apart from the reason of playing a role of engineer in their jobs which most of them are not capable of not because of the education system but because of their attitude towards choosing such a course . I think Mr Patrick has done a wonderful job doing this video and I really appreciate that it will help us and future generations to come .

[selfmadediaries]

FINALLY a channel with soo many helpful things to learn and a guy that knows what he is talking about, WITHOUT trying to sell me a crappy 'quick-scheme'-product.
Thank you Patrick! Keep it up!

Favorite channel on YouTube!

[omarhasan]

i dropped out, worked 3 years invested in a small business and now Im making 50 k a year at 20

[ElliotScottDating]

take it from me who has a bachelors in English AND Kinesiology: I wish I dropped out when I was 20 and did my own thing. College isn't needed for 80% of the people going there....

[DoglinsShadow]

I dropped out of college after the first semester when I was 17 years old. I had graduated high school half a year early. when I turned 18, I began investing money in businesses. Several crashed businesses, many mentors, lots of books, and even 90 hour work weeks, have finally found a model which works best for me. by March 2017 the anticipated profits on my end will be 4500 United States dollars per month. Also, I will be able to run the business anywhere in the world. I will be able to travel the world and not even work so much. After getting my fill of travel, likely sometime in November December, I will be scaling the business up and the anticipated profits will be six figures by March 2018.
I'm not saying this to brag. My point is that I knew what I wanted in life and I took a step back and realize that college was a great hindrance to what I wanted. Figure out what you want, and then go for it. More times than not, college is absolutely not the answer. my education will never end though.
What do you want?

[akbarbukhari]

I'm not even in college and i wanna drop out

[juancavel]

What if I am disciplined with the things I like but lazy with university because it's not my way of studying and it's emotionally dragging?

[isianacarrcoleman]

I'm a sophomore in high school and I'm not so sure what I want to do with my life. But I really appreciate videos because my parents work full time and I barely see them only child so don't really have much guidance. Thank you for taking out the effort to make these videos because so many people don't get the chance to surround themselves with accomplished people and they don't get the raw insight needed to reach success. I just thought it was cool how you decided to reach out.

[Logical_Motivation]

This is sooo valuable. We're conditioned to think a certain way in this world. You have to recondition your thinking. You'll find yourself in life when you don't follow behind everyone. Choose your own path!