If I were to sit here and tell you that college was the key to becoming a successful entrepreneur, Id be lying. College is good, dont get me wrong, but the thing that I really, really hate about college is the get-a-job philosophy.

Think about it. Colleges prepares students to join the workforce with an entry-level position, work that job the best as you can and one day hope to become a middle-level manager, retire at the age of 65, then live off of your social security checks for the rest of your life.

Do colleges really tell you to take risks and go off and start a company? Do colleges tell you to follow your dreams no matter what happens? Do colleges tell you to jump on opportunities when you see them or youll be left behind? Hell no, I was never told or taught any of these possible life changing lessons in my college. I taught them to myself by freeing my mind from all of the play-it-safe lessons that I learned as a kid from those who knew best.

It makes me sad to see many of my fellow students becoming another sheep added to herds of play-it-safers. What herds am I speaking of? You know. The herds of students not thinking about making it big in life and only thinking about playing it safe. I cant understand why any one would want to play it safe when there is a world of endless opportunities to create something and call it your own.

Well, I guess I can understand where students get this play-it-safe mentality from apart from what they learn in college. They get it from their parents. Most parents if you havent noticed work long hours in companies that they dont own. Most dont even like their jobs. This is very honorable, indeed. Working for someone is ok, but not if you have higher hopes for yourself.

These same parents never took any chances to go off on their own and start a business; these are the lives they live. So what did they do? They taught their children to do the same things that they did: get a job and work for someone else for 40 years and try to be happy while youre at it.

Students need to breakout of that way of thinking. You cant limit yourself to a life of safety when success and greatness are in your reach for the taking. We need to follow our dreams by all means necessary.

As you know, I went to college and learned a lot from the experience. But the difference between me and so many students is that I went to college knowing that I wasnt going to become a zombie of the system. I wasnt going to be brainwashed into thinking that the only thing for me to accomplish in life was getting a job and helping to make someone richer for the rest of my life. No thank you! Not for me!

We live in a world where possibilities are endless. The sky is the limit! Students more than any one are in a position to take advantage of our youth, our energetic minds, and our curious imaginations that we possess. Too many things havent been created yet and are just waiting to be explored.

Students mustnt fall into the trap of living a life of mediocrity. Your parents and professors can be your worst enemies by trying to thwart your dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur. It will be important that your see through their blindness and continue your journey as an entrepreneur, even when you have so many detractors against you and the people you have grown to trust your whole life all of a sudden attack you from straying from the herd.

Be an individual. Think your own way. Dont be a yes man, be a why man. Never stop wondering what you are capable of doing in this lifetime. If you keep your mind open to all things, then you allow yourself to become a creator in life; you allow yourself to believe that you can amount to something greater than youve ever dreamed, and your mind will wonder into lands where success, brilliance, and greatness is commonplace.

Sheep get slaughtered, individual freethinkers get shunned by society but ultimately come out on top.

The student entrepreneur is an individual.

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