Tynan offers the Hustler's MBA. Rather than investing four years and $50,000-$200,000 to get a college degree, he suggests spending the four years, and a much lower sum of money, pursuing the following:
1. Learn poker. To an outsider, poker seems like a form of degenerate gambling. It can be, but that's not its nature. One of the most valuable skills I've learned in life is how to assess hundreds of factors, choose the important ones, evaluate them to make a decision quickly, and then execute that decision. Poker teaches this extremely well. .
2. Travel a lot.
3. Read every single day for at least an hour.
4. Write every single day.
5. Learn to program, even if you don't want to be a programmer.
6. Do something social.
7. Eat healthy.
8. Follow curiosity and spend money on it when necessary.
9. Start a business after two years.
This is a modern curriculum that, on average, will produce people better prepared for real life than college.
His full essay, with each of these ideas fleshed out, is here. It is well worth the time.
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