Will I Go To Hell If I Don't Go To College?

Maybe, but it won't be because you didn't go to college.

The argument against getting a college degree is not whether doing so will make you more successful or not. You don't need a degree before beginning great work that you are highly compensated for.

Both options work, but the advanced degree is now prohibitively expensive and the college curriculum has become dreadfully theoretical and impractical while the price continues to balloon upward. Ergo, the value of a college degree is approaching "worthless".

What about the opportunity to grow, mature, socialize and "experience" college?

Have fun with that.

College campuses are no longer primarily educational institutions that provide meaningful and practical knowledge and wisdom. They no longer promote intellectual discourse without regard to position. They encourage and influence one side of an argument under the guise of fairness and progressivism.

Disagreement is not encouraged and investigated, it is discouraged and discriminated against.

What they are, with few exceptions, are expensive places to delay maturity and reality. The "safer" college campuses become, the more dangerous they become to the students seeking true wisdom and fact-based knowledge.

And yet, somehow you should continue to pay more for this?

I have stated for years that I think college is a complete and total waste of time. If you want more about this, check out “Do You Really Need A College Degree?”

Unless you have a very specific passion in a profession where a degree is an absolute requirement, you don't need a degree. Medical and Law School are obvious examples. Without a degree, you cannot legally practice.

Otherwise, you need to take a hard look and really question a tradition that was once both a dream fulfilled and confirmation of having “made it”. Tough stuff...

Even if you can get scholarship money or grant money to pay for your tuition, I suggest that you are still putting off your life for 4 years to learn things that won’t necessarily serve you or help you succeed in life.

Many fortune 500 companies have already dropped college degrees from their job requirements and the list is getting longer every day - https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/no-degree-required/

Other factors include;

• Scientific and technical advances outpace curriculum updates rendering content almost irrelevant
• Online free education and access to knowledge and information have become mainstream. You can learn almost anything online for free from anywhere you want, any time you want
• Innovation feeds capitalism and capitalism feeds innovation. Many top corporate leaders either never went to college or dropped out to “get to work”
• To an earlier point, starting your career with $200,000 in debt that you can’t even rid yourself of in bankruptcy court is hardly your most practical option
• Colleges and Universities have become political lightning rods for progressivism. Regardless of your political leanings, this trend moves the college experience further from actual education and more toward indoctrination to an ideology that may not suit you and certainly won’t help you become successful

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Success is defined in the dictionary as

A favorable or desired outcome

also: the attainment of wealth, favor, or eminence

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I promise you that you can both achieve “a favorable or desired outcome” and/or “attain wealth, favor or eminence” without a college degree

How you do that will require the same commitments of hard work, discipline and a burning desire to help other people in some way. You just need to let go of the false assumption that college somehow makes you more valuable to the world…it doesn’t.

It used to, but it doesn’t anymore

Once you overcome the pressure from society, parents, teachers and others who love you but don’t necessarily embrace this new reality, you can decide objectively whether you need to wait 4 more years to begin your journey to success (aka grow up).

I find that, overwhelmingly, the biggest obstacle for people to professional success is not education. It's a total lack of understanding and insight into what they should actually be doing to become successful

For this reason, I don’t coach anyone professionally until they download and finish my workbook “Find Your True Purpose”

Because what’s the sense of learning how to find and secure meaningful work if you don’t yet know what truly brings you meaning?

I have family and friends that I speak with every day about this and I marvel at how deeply ingrained this idea of college is in their parental lobes (those are located deeply inside the cerebral guilt cortex that materializes in adults upon the birth of their first child).

We are still driven so deeply by the need to provide, protect and make available everything we can to our kids, that we cannot yet see the reality that is before us. It's not coming...it's here. Even people who agree with my logic feel so compelled to "get their kids into a good college" that they are blinded to what college has become.

I get it!

Snap out of it!

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Mark