Dropouts

You can drop out of college.
PROVIDED, you can.
PROVIDED, you have what it takes.
PROVIDED, you have something nobody else has and you know how to sell it.

Most of them are college dropouts.
Gates. Zuckerberg. Dell. Jobs. Assange.
Ellison. Williams. Koum.
We all know the big long list.
But which colleges did they drop out from?
Have a check.
You’ll see institute names as big and significant as the names of these celebrated dropouts.
Take a moment to absorb that these people had the potential to get in there first; before they also displayed that their potential extended upto dropping out of there as well.

It isn’t the dropping out that counts.
What counts is what they did after they dropped out and what they had in them that they used.
It’s the skill that counts.
It’s the ability to evolve that skill on one’s own that counts.
It’s believing in it all that counts.
And belief must be based on real terms; so knowing that it’s all there, in the first place, to be developed further, counts the most.
They had it.
It all could’ve been a huge disaster as well, if it hadn’t planned out; if they had miscalculated – which they must’ve done sometime, but they went back at it and got their actions rectified. Repeatedly. Doggedly. Relentless.

Sure, our education system has failed us on many fronts.
It failed to help us tap into our potential and get the best out of the uniqueness of our individual personalities.
At best, it only discouraged that uniqueness and turned us into mindless drones loaded with field-specific, limited data; to be deployed as robots for corporates till it’s profitable to them, and not a minute more when it turns unprofitable.
It’s silly and degrading.

If it suffocates you, know that this corporate system you hate is only an inevitable result of rise in the volume of people with insufficient skills to lead individual businesses; many would tell you that the corporate system is preferable to Nature’s laws; for one can stay alive in that system whereas Nature would’ve eliminated you for your inabilities long ago.
If you disagree with such a compromise, then you should also take up the responsibility to build a better system that suits you in your own space.

Know that it all boils down to your resolve to stay true to what you have in you; your commitment to keep progressing on it; your dedication to be new each day and be so fit for an individualized survival that it’ll turn out to be flourishing for you, the way it did to all those big names.

© Apoorv Vikas
Counselor and Life Empowerment Coach
Nigdi Pune India

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