Practice #78 - Do This To Escape High School

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When I was in high school, I thought I was stuck.

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I thought that that was all I could do.

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In freshman year and sophomore year, I was thinking to myself,

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I got to do this for two more years, three more years.

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And then I also have college.

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But one thing I wish that I knew earlier was

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that you can actually organize your schedule in such a way

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to where you can graduate early,

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but you can also not go to college.

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Now, there are lots of different caveats because in high school,

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you're most likely to be financially dependent on somebody.

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So that means is you basically are relying on your parents

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or someone else to actually help you survive,

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like actually provide for you.

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So that is a little tricky when it comes to not going

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to high school anymore if they want you to.

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So when you are in high school and you don't like it,

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you just got to push through and it is tempting to drop out.

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Like I genuinely want it to drop out.

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But the thing is that you got to play smart.

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I'm very grateful that I played smart

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because if I dropped out, I probably would not be

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where I'm at right now.

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I would probably be, I don't know where I'd be.

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But there's this framework that I basically followed along the way

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to actually make it through high school.

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And actually, right now, I should be in class.

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Well, it's 6.44 in the morning.

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But today, I should be going to school.

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But I'm not.

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Why?

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Because I graduated early.

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So what that means is I basically finished all of my credits,

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all my required credits, and I told my counselor,

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I'm graduating.

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I asked my counselor if I could graduate early.

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And that just means that I can not

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go to the last semester of school.

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There's a process I followed.

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I wasn't really aware of it at the time.

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But one huge advantage that I had was self-improvement.

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I showed that I was different from other people.

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And I was willing to do different things.

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And I was willing to do the work on my own time.

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Most people, they go to school.

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And then they put the work in at school.

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And then once they get home, they just watch TV.

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And I was like that in middle school.

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And even at the beginning of high school, I was like that.

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I put in the work at school, got like A's and B's.

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And then at home, I just lounged.

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I wasted all my free time.

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And I wasn't showing that I could actually put into work.

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I wasn't showing that I could put in the work for myself.

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So that's huge.

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If you want to escape high school,

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you basically have to go through and start

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working for yourself.

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Self-improvement taught me how to do that.

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I started lifting weights for myself.

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That's something that school doesn't tell you to do.

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And then I started being healthier, exercising more.

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And then eventually, I started reading books.

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And that was a huge game changer.

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Because I proved that I am willing to and I actually

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enjoy and prefer to put in the work at home

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during my leisure time.

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Instead of lounging around, watching Netflix,

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wasting the day, I'm actually reading books

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to make my future better.

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So those actionable things that I was doing every day,

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I wasn't saying it.

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I was showing that I am literally just putting in the work

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on my own so then eventually I can actually

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make it on my own and not have to rely on the school system

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and the college system to get a degree

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and get a normal job.

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So self-improvement and then reading books,

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then there's another thing.

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I was scared to even say that I didn't want to go to college.

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And then also, I was scared to even say that.

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I was a little nervous to even graduate early.

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When I had to go into the counselor's office,

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it was a little nerve-wracking.

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But I was very well prepared.

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Why?

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Because what I did just weeks before

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was comfort zone challenges.

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Literally just cold-approached girls in the mall.

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And then I cold-approached.

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Originally, I cold-called businesses, local businesses,

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and then I cold-approached local businesses.

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So I literally just walked in and asked them

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if I could help them.

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And then eventually, I got my comfort zone

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expanded a little bit more so then I cold-approached girls.

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And this helped tremendously because the things

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that I had to go through to get the early graduation was crazy

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because I had to go to the counselor's office

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and she didn't want to help me.

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So I had to go to a different counselor.

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He didn't want to help me.

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So I had to go to their boss.

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She didn't want to help me.

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But then I persuaded her somehow and then, boom,

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graduate early.

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So there's some steps that you can take.

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First, make sure you're getting all your required classes in.

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Your required classes are essential to graduate.

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And you want to get out there as soon as possible, right?

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So it makes sense.

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Get all your required classes done.

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If you're taking any classes that are not required,

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drop them right now because they're not going to help you.

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They're just wasting time.

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Every single, I don't know if this stat is true,

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but over summer, I heard someone say to me

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that every single period you spend at school for a semester

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is 250 hours of your life over the course of the semester.

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250 hours.

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So I have a background in video games.

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So I understand how good someone would

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be at a specific video game depending on how much hours they

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get.

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10 hours, they're bad.

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50 hours, they're all right.

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100 hours, they're pretty good.

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And then 250 hours, you're pretty good.

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So and then I also read books.

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So I know how to kind of, I'm familiar with how long it

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may take to read a book.

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10 hours, 5 hours, 15 hours.

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You can read 10 books instead of that,

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instead of go to one class period.

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So that means every single period you save yourself

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from going to is 250 hours saved in your life.

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And then if you save an entire semester,

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I don't remember the actual math,

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but it's something like a couple thousand, like 2,000

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or something like that.

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Like eight periods in a day, 250 each.

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That's 1,000.

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That's like 4,000 hours.

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Each semester you save is 4,000 hours.

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So I save 4,000 hours.

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Plus my first semester of senior year,

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I only had like four classes.

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So I probably saved like 6,000 hours or something like that.

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6,000 hours.

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Put that into perspective for a moment.

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There is a common belief that you need 10,000 hours

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to become an expert at something.

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Now, whether or not that's true, it's debatable.

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There's varying beliefs on that.

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But just think about that.

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If you are an expert, that means you're like the top person

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in your field.

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Most people are not experts the moment they leave college.

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And that's college.

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That's four extra years of your life.

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So that's literally like 30,000 hours more.

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I don't know.

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So if you just drop one semester like I did,

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that's 4,000 hours.

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You're basically halfway to expert status.

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Oh my goodness.

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That's crazy.

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So take that into account.

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Actual steps.

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Drop all of your non-required classes.

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And then only take required classes and have a full schedule.

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So if you're a freshman year, full schedule.

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And me personally, if I went back in time,

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I would do summer school.

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Because the time, like the return on investment

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is way quicker.

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Because summer school is only a few months.

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And you can get an entire semester done.

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Whereas a normal class, like a normal semester,

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is like way more months, like three or four months.

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So the return on investment of time for reward in summer

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school is way better.

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I would, like me personally, if I was restarting,

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I was in eighth grade right now, I

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would schedule my high school career

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to literally get an entire schedule of required classes.

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And then I would have summer school.

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So I would do summer school going into high school

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and every single year until I get to graduate.

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And if you follow that, you'll probably

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be able to graduate like junior years, maybe sophomore year.

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I don't know.

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So, man.

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But there is one caveat.

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Parents may not like that.

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Because in my experience with where I grew up,

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or where I am, like where I'm growing up,

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is normal society does not like it when you stray off

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the well-beaten path.

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So the well-beaten path is go to high school, go to college,

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get a crappy job, work a crappy job for the rest of your life,

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and you have a miserable existence.

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That's the well-trotted path.

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But if you try and stray off and leave during high school,

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well, people shun that.

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They don't like that.

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Because it kind of makes them nervous.

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But what you got to do is prove yourself.

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Self-improvement was my greatest asset

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for getting the leverage or the influence that I needed

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in order to build the life that I wanted,

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like actually graduate early and not go to college.

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Because if you're taking the normal path,

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you're probably like a normal person.

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And normal people don't really work on themselves

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outside of the main career.

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They work hard on school.

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But then at home, they're just like kind of wasting

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a lot of the day.

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But if you can show that you are working hard during school

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and you're working on yourself, then you'll actually

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build it, like steer off course, and build the life

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that you actually want.