You have heard of the professional student haven’t you? He is the guy, or gal, who can’t seem to graduate because he/she keeps changing majors which require more education therefore a reason not to finish school. The problem with this type of indecisiveness is that the perpetual student is not capable of believing in themselves. A low self-image is a major factor in holding back a creative mind. Anyone encumbered by a low self-image may think it is not unimaginable that a job as a speed bump would be a step up from where they are now.
I am a believer in higher education and it has a particular allure to it. Learning is exciting. It is also true that a person does not need a college degree to be successful. Look at Vice President Dick Chaney who dropped out of college and who is among some of the richest men in the country. Bill Gates and Larry Ellison are two more hugely successful and rich people who did not finish college before they became successful in life.
The Success Principles by Jack Canfield states that 20% of America’s millionaires never set foot in college and 21 of the 222 Americans listed as billionaires in 2003 never got their college diplomas; 2 never even finished high school.
What people need is to believe in themselves.
I am a believer in higher education and it has a particular allure to it. Learning is exciting. It is also true that a person does not need a college degree to be successful. Look at Vice President Dick Chaney who dropped out of college and who is among some of the richest men in the country. Bill Gates and Larry Ellison are two more hugely successful and rich people who did not finish college before they became successful in life.
The Success Principles by Jack Canfield states that 20% of America’s millionaires never set foot in college and 21 of the 222 Americans listed as billionaires in 2003 never got their college diplomas; 2 never even finished high school.
What people need is to believe in themselves.
Quit waiting for: that perfect time to act; the right person to come along; someone to change; the kids to leave home; absence of risk; someone to discover you; permission; the pain to go away.
Years ago I belonged to a multi-level marketing group. They were highly motivational and able to transmit that motivation to others. One of the ideas I took from the many seminars was to repeat this mantra many times a day. It was and is… “Do it Now”. When you are inspired…take action…Do It Now.
Years ago I belonged to a multi-level marketing group. They were highly motivational and able to transmit that motivation to others. One of the ideas I took from the many seminars was to repeat this mantra many times a day. It was and is… “Do it Now”. When you are inspired…take action…Do It Now.
Write it down,
Carma
Learning is not worth what it once was. I've seen people with degrees pushing filing trolleys around because they couldn't find a better job. I had a friend once who got a degree in electrical and electronic engineering and he told me that he never used anything he learned in those years at uni. "A degree, Jimmy," he said to me, "simply proves you have the capacity to learn. It's like an IQ. Having an IQ doesn't mean you're automatically clever, you simply have the potential to be clever." Tom was a member of MENSA so he was clever and the last I saw of him he was living in a house with three dirty great pine trees in his back yard.
ReplyDeleteI, on the other hand, didn't go to university and I now find myself at forty-eight with four novels most of which haven't been read by anyone bar my wife and daughter. This is not because I didn't think they're any good. It's not because I didn't believe in myself. Belief is not enough. It needs to be followed by an act of faith. As the bible puts it: faith without works is dead.
I allowed so many other things to get in the road of trying to do anything with them that I got used to writing a novel and sticking in the drawer afterward.
The nice thing about novels, well these ones anyway, is that they don't go off. Most writers trying to make a name for themselves have one book to their name and the big question is, can they pull it off again? At least I have no doubts on that score.
You're right Jim, Belief is Not Enough. Without faith, what we believe does not have a chance.
ReplyDeleteI also heard that some employers don't care what kind of degree you have. They only care that you finished what you started and know that you can learn.
I enjoy your comments.