I have a good friend who is in her mid 40’s who is a professor. She has found that the more educated she is, the more successful she is in her career. She is now the President of a large university. She is also a highly successful author of 5 books, and her second best seller is just out.
When I was in college I was a really bad student, and I remember feeling like I was so out of my depth I couldn’t figure out how to pay my way through school. I remember thinking, “I hate school and I hate math and I feel like I don’t understand anything. I just want to go home and go to bed.
I’m not saying that everyone in college should be college students, or that everyone who is successful should be successful, but I know that a number of successful people come from humble beginnings. I also know that success is often the result of hard work.
This is something that can be difficult to understand. The simple truth is that successful people like most people who are successful are very similar to everyone else. They are all products of hard work. Success is not a measure of whether or not you achieved it – it is a measure of whether you worked hard at achieving it.
The problem most people have when it comes to success is that the definition of success is so nebulous. It can mean anything from being the “best” or “most successful” person you know or something that looks great on a resume, but that is not how people define success. For example, in high school I was the captain of the football team, but there are many other things I could have done to earn that trophy that I didn’t do.
One of the most common questions I get is, “How much can you learn in a day?” This is a great question. Many people don’t realize that you need to dedicate a period of time to learn something before you can apply it to your life. You don’t learn anything new by reading a book in a class. You learn something new by doing things that are new and different for you than how you learned them in the first place.
What I mean is there are some people who read a book to get a basic understanding of something. But if they don’t apply it to their life, they can’t really apply it and they should be ashamed of themselves. For example, I knew right from wrong, which might be considered bad etiquette. But I was so busy with my writing, I never applied that to my life.
That’s why I really like the movie “The Help”. It was such a great movie, in which a father gets a little bit more of a head start on his daughter, which in turn lets him start doing great things in his life.
I think you might be interested to know that in today’s society, “doing great things” seems to be synonymous with “not doing anything.” You can’t really do anything unless you have a degree or a college degree. The reason that people need a college degree to really get ahead is that their education (especially their college education) is so important. It affects everything they do and every decision they make.
If you think the whole “college education is the key to success” thing is a bit much just look at the whole “I’m going to be a millionaire someday” thing.