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James Altucher大學不教卻必須掌握的技能： 他高中輟學，開了家公司，但是經營不善。經歷諸多之后，又開了另一家公司，還拜托我給他公司提點建議。 我并沒能給出什么好的建議，但在聊天中我們就他高中輟學這件事討論了一番。 他告訴我，當他弄明白如何“學會學習”時，就不再需要學校教育了。 我不能判斷出此話的真?zhèn)危液苄蕾p他提到的“學會學習”。 他曾開發(fā)過一個APP，但是無人問津，即便是原來支持他的朋友后來也不待見他了。但是一兩年后我再回首此事時，很慶幸當時沒有貿然給出我的建議。 他也倍受打擊，想不通為什么辛苦開發(fā)的APP不能如他所愿地火起來。當然，沒人能夠預測未來，管你是哈佛博士還是高中輟學生。 于是他挨個打電話給一些公司的高層，想知道這個APP的哪些功能是他們覺得有用的。 他約見了近50位各行各業(yè)的頂尖技術人才，傾聽他們的困惑，理清問題的癥結，研究解決的方案。 然后他重新編寫、宣傳了這個APP，改動微乎其微。這已經是四年之后的事了。 我不知道他是否已將他的公司廣而告之，所以在此我不能透露公司名。但是他剛以2億5千萬美元的市值估價完成6千萬美元的融資。在今年他將大有作為，前程似錦。 介紹給我這款經過更新的APP的友人曾評價道：“我從我未見過如此契合產品描述的產品性能。沒人不想買?！?/p> 他受教育程度低嗎？當然不，這么多年他閱歷豐富，所經歷的比我認識的任何一個人都多。 他的計算機知識完善了嗎？當然沒有，但是他開發(fā)了一套自己的程序來幫助別人解決問題。如果我沒記錯的話，谷歌就是他的頂級投資商之一。 我后悔過自己不能給出建議嗎？倒也沒有，我更適合在幕后埋頭苦干，而非在前方引導別人。 如果你不能抓住每一個實現(xiàn)自己的夢想的機會，就只能一直跟在別人后面跑，實現(xiàn)的都是他人的夢想。 有必要知己所能與所不能，因為我喜歡用自己的方式書寫人生。 世事已經大為不同，回首歷史，從凱撒大帝的第一代人起，每一代人都不可避免地比上一代人掙的更少，首當其沖的便是欠了1.2萬億美元助學貸款的我們。 這不僅僅是美國的現(xiàn)狀，全世界都受困于此。我們掙得比父輩們少，卻被灌輸“去上學，就能升職加薪，當上總經理，出任CEO，走向人生巔峰?！?/p> 我們都被謊言誤導了。 誠然，現(xiàn)如今太多可以利用的學習渠道。我可以通過網絡免費上大多數(shù)想學習的課程，可以用kindle閱讀任意一本書。 只要有一臺電腦（向大學輟學生喬布斯和比爾蓋茨致敬），就可以時刻關注朋友的上線狀態(tài)（向大學輟學生馬克.扎克伯格致敬），可以比以往任意一次都便宜地診斷病癥（向大學輟學生伊麗莎白.福爾摩斯致敬）， 只要我想（但是我不想），就能消息靈通，走在時代前沿（向大學被開除的特德.特納致敬），我的飲食還會非常健康（向大學輟學生全食超市創(chuàng)始人約翰.麥基致敬）。 你可能會說：這些都只是名人軼事。的確，我沒法反駁。但是，我也能閱讀，寫作，社交，吃飯，保持健康……我還有大把的時間和精力去學習。 其實我也屬于名人軼事的一員。我大學畢業(yè)后念研究生卻半途而廢（正是昨晚還和我共進晚餐的那個朋友告訴了我關于那個高中輟學生的近況） 于是我開始讀我想讀的書，過我想過的生活。但這些花了頗多時間，因為我實在興趣廣泛熱情太盛。但我仍清楚堅定自己要走的路。 我希望我的子女們不要浪費時間，直接學習“如何學習”。我曾看過一個研究報告，孩子上完課45分鐘后，課堂內容就會忘得一干二凈。 無論你上不上大學，你唯一能學到知識的途徑是：
這也只是“軼事”之一，我沒有研究報告可以佐證這個理論，但這的確是我學習的不二法門。 我的小孩將會在家接受教育。我清楚他們的熱情與興趣所在，所以我要他們將精力用在探索感興趣的未知上，而非將時間浪費在必遭遺忘的無聊之事上。 將畢生激情投入到未竟事業(yè)中，通過改變自己而影響世界，為他人打開通向新世界的大門。 這些技能你無法從大學得到卻必須掌握： 以下為英文原文： James AltucherThe skills we all need but college doesn’t teach: He dropped out of high school. Started a company that didn’t work. Read a lot. Then started another company. He wanted me to advise his company. I didn’t do it. But we spoke for a while about his being a high school dropout. He said, “Once I figured out how I can learn to learn then I didn’t need school anymore.” I didn’t know whether to believe him. But I liked that phrase, “l(fā)earn to learn”. He made an app that didn’t work. Nobody wanted it. Not even his friends who said they wanted it. I was thinking a year or two later: thank god I didn’t advise that company. So he backed off and asked himself why the app wasn’t as popular as he thought it would be. Nobody can predict the future. A Harvard PhD and a high school dropout have equal skills at prophecy. He called up the top people at many companies and asked them if there was any part of his app that they would want. He met with maybe 50 heads of technology at all sorts of different companies in different industries. He figured out what their problems were. He listened and studied. Then he rewrote his app. Just slightly. He also rewrote the way he described the app. Just slightly. It’s now four years later. I’m not saying the name of his company because I don’t know if news was announced yet. But he just raised $60 million at a $250 million valuation. He’s on track for great revenues this year. My friend who was giving me this update said, “I’ve never seen anything like this. He has a 100% close rate on his sales calls. Everyone buys.” Is he uneducated? Of course not. He reads constantly. Maybe more than anyone I know. Did he not get networked enough? Of course not. He created his network by helping them solve their problems. If I’m not mistaken, Google is one of his top investors. Do I regret not advising his company? No. I’m not a very good advisor I think. I like to sit in my room with the shades closed. If you go for every opportunity you end up chasing everyone else’s dreams except your own. It’s good to know what you are good at and what you are not so good at. I like to deliver value my own way. Everything has turned upside down. FOR THE FIRST GENERATION IN HISTORY, since Julius Caesar, we are on track to make less money than the generation before us. And with $1.2 trillion in college debt to pay back on top of it. This is not just in America. The entire world is having this problem. This generation will make less than the generation before. We were all told to go to school and get a job and incomes would rise. We were all told a lie. Admittedly, we have some good things going for us. I can take any course I want for almost free. I can read books on my kindle. I have a computer (courtesy of college dropouts like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates) and I can always see what my friends are up to (courtesy of college dropout Mark Zuckerberg) and I can even diagnose any diseases I have cheaper than ever (courtesy of college dropout Elizabeth Holmes). I can stay informed if I want (but I don’t) courtesy of an expelled college student (Ted Turner) and I can eat healthy (courtesy of college dropout Whole Foods founder John Mackay). You can say, these are all anecdotes. That’s true! I have no defense. And yet, I can read, write, connect, eat, stay healthy, etc so I have time and energy to learn. I’m an anecdote also. I went to college and then graduate school. Was thrown out of graduate school (coincidentally by the friend I had dinner with last night who told me the update about the high school dropout). I then started to read everything I wanted. I then started to live the life I wanted to live. But it took a long time. I had many passions. I’m still working my way through them. I hope it doesn’t take so long for my own daughters. I hope they learn how to learn. I read one study that shows that 45 minutes after kids leave a lecture they can’t remember anything said in the lecture. Here are the only ways you can learn something. College or no college:
I have no study to quote on this. This just an anecdote also. This is the only way I learn. I want to home-college my kids. I know they have passions and interests. I want them to explore those instead of wasting time on useless things they will forget. Then they need to put those passions to work. You change the world by changing yourself. That’s how you unwrap the unique gift you can give everyone else. Here are the skills they need to learn that are specifically NOT taught in college: 近期熱門兩個人結婚最不可思議的理由是什么？
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