This is interesting because on one hand, I think a lot of people ask themselves “could I have done all that I’ve done without a degree?”

Most definitely you can succeed without a degree (without a high school diploma for that matter). For me, I think the “System” of College is in need a 21st Century overhaul in that (at many schools),you are not being taught real time career  information in the classrooms. The people teaching you haven’t been in the field in years, the books are obsolete by the time they are printed, and most times you are not being taught that  success is more than the “good job.” You’ll have to find that out on your your own. In some respects, people who skip college have a 4-year jump in this department.

On the other hand I think college was a good thing. I take that back..I know college was a great thing [for me]. Yeah, it slowed me up from pursuing certain entrepreneurial ventures, but it opened up new ones for me. I started my first businesses in college, I met my wife at college and a lot of people that I ended up making money with, I met on that campus.

Its all about time and space. During those college years you are basically buying time to explore options. This is the only time you have to focus on who you are and what you believe without interference.  Its something about being able to capture those  experiences, that you would not have time to experience otherwise, bottling them up and utilizing them throughout your life that makes it worthwhile.   These are the times you experience your first taste of “contained” adulthood . These are the times where I woke up learning and went to sleep learning. Even if the lesson for today was that people from different places did different things (ie: Black people from Chicago said their city like it was three separate words. *Chi-Caaa-Go*)

And over the course of my college career I met so many people from so many different places  that I learned to go into each situation like: “What can I learn from this person? What makes this person unique?” Its these little nuances that makes all the difference as I do business around the globe.

School is Cool-But learning continues through eternity!