![]() She got mad at me, and threw me out of the classroom!īy this point, I was researching search engine algorithms. In English class, I corrected my teacher’s equation (not sure why she was trying to do math in the first place). My professors probably thought I was a bit of an arrogant prick. ![]() I expected to get some programming skills, but instead, we learned very basic computer skills and how to write a research paper in Microsoft Word! I took a computer science class, which was mostly a computer lab. The other 30 percent was either wrong or outdated. Unfortunately, 70 percent of the things my professors taught, I already knew. I expected to gain more marketing knowledge that would advance my business. It seemed logical to major in marketing when I got to college. I started a marketing consulting agency in high school. My advice to aspiring entrepreneurs is to avoid college if at all possible, and develop your critical thinking skills as much as possible. The system drilled into me a method of thinking that went against critical thinking. Shaking your mind with crazy ideas can lead you closer to the one or two right ideas that could solve your problem.Ĭritical thinking is all about an insane level of determination, scary amounts of creativity, and a persistent drive to solve the problem.Įventually, you’ll get closer to a solution, and achieve a breakthrough.Ĭollege, for me, was detrimental to my critical thinking skills. Gradually, I get closer to solving the problem.I try 1-3 of best ideas from this list.After I’ve tried a few, I write another 5-10 solutions.I write down 5-10 possible solutions, no matter how crazy they might seem.When I face a difficult problem in business, life, or whatever, I think to myself, there is a solution.Here’s the process I came up with for teaching myself critical thinking: Maybe some colleges are good at this, and I just lucked out. Maybe college wasn’t designed to do that. I understand that It’s difficult to tell someone how to think critically. What college didn’t teach me, I had to learn on my own. ![]() Instead they take risks, devise creative solutions, think outside the box, and choose what rules to break. That kind of approach destroys critical thinking.įundamentally, entrepreneurs do not follow instructions. Instead, college consisted of classes where I was told to obey the rules, follow the instructions, memorize this information, and regurgitate it on a test. I had a mistaken notion that I would learn more critical thinking skills in college. ![]() All my life, my parents had pushed the idea of critical thinking and taught me critical thinking skills. I went into college expecting to sharpen my critical thinking skills. If you possess the skill of critical thinking, you can solve any problem, build any business, and change the world. I believe that an entrepreneur's greatest asset is critical thinking. ![]()
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