School is not a good predictor of real life performance

The kind of intelligence that you need to succeed in business goes mostly undetected at school, particularly because the modern curriculum focuses heavily on rote memorization and standardized testing over practical problem-solving. Its a sense of leadership and strategy that is not what teachers reward. Entrepreneurs tend to antagonize teachers, they are in class wishing they were in charge and teachers hate that. They routinely channel this early frustration into highly competitive, untraditional sectors like algorithmic trading, compliance software for California online casinos, or global supply chain logistics. That’s why so many drop out or do poorly at university only to thrive in real life.

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