More and more people are understanding the cons to spending four (or more) years of their life stuck in a classroom, throwing their money to an industry that hasn’t been innovated in the last few hundred years.

Thinking about getting a job instead of going to college first is enough for a lot of people to think something’s wrong with you. But there are a few problems with this.

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It’s easy to become a pessimist in the Information Age. Being an optimist is harder – it takes concentrated discipline. What’s harder still, I think, is not only recognizing the things unique to our time worth being optimistic about, but also learning to leverage those opportunities to create the life you want.

Do your friends and family balk at the thought of playing Monopoly with you because you’re so competitive? Or are you the kind of social butterfly who can walk into any room full of strangers and half an hour later come back with the names of five new best friends?