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Why You Need to Unlearn Almost Everything You Learned in School
Here’s the difference between creating your own path or following in the footsteps of someone else’s
“If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It’s always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error.” -Ryan Holiday
I spent 16 years of my life in the formal education system. I went to elementary school, middle school, high school, and then more recently, went to university where I finished an accounting degree.
And ever since then, everyone’s been trying to put me into a box. They’ve expected me to work a corporate job, collect a paycheck and take 3 weeks of paid vacation a year.
However, I’ve gone against the grain and become a full-time writer.
And what I’ve realized, is that I’m able to do what I do not because of what I learned in school, but because I didn't let what I learned in school hold me back.
Or as Mark Twain has famously put it,
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
