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Discussion on: Does College Limit Our Success?

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Avalander

I doubt it. Survivor bias is a thing and for every super rich entrepreneur that dropped out of university there is a myriad of university drop out entrepreneurs who didn't get that rich.

I do think that most current school systems numb people's creativity and divergent thinking with their evaluating students by how good they are at writing down the answers that the teachers want to read. However, that issue begins already in the first years of schooling. And I suspect that "successful" entrepreneurs (successful is such a relative term I have issues categorizing people as successful and not successful) somehow survive the damage from the schooling system better than others, but I doubt a few extra years in university make a difference in this regard.

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hussein cheayto

I agree. I believe that everyone has his/her own definition of success.

For me, I am successful when I have my own company, married and happy.