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Dropout University
by Josh Krivanek
You want the truth? I'm not an expert in anything. I'm just a guy who looked up at twenty years old in college and realized I was learning how to be useful - not happy. So I'm not speaking as an expert, but a conversation starter. A conversation about what life would look like if we lived by what makes us happy, not useful.
Episodes
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S1E10: Why Morals Can't be Taught
Over the years, school systems have taken on more and more responsibility for life education: ya know the stuff they don't put in textbooks. But no matter how hard they try, there's one thing schools will never be able to teach: morals. In this episode, I want to explain why there are not enough...
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S1E9: Frequent Failure Miles
In school, there are no positive failures. Especially if you're like me and you're used to hyper-competitive academic environments. At some point, the avoidance of failure morphs into a fear of failure. Through many failures of my own, I've started to learn that failure itself hardly bothers me....
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S1E8: The Power of One
Which is greater, 1 or 1oo? By the simple principles of numbers taught to us in school, we naturally come to value larger as better. The same can be said for the audience we have. The more followers, the more subscribers, the more eyes we have watching us makes us more of a success. In this...
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S1E7: You Have to Go to Know
I would be lying if I told you school alone caused my anxiety, but there's no question that it gave my anxiety a place to thrive. Running deadlines, applications, standardized tests, and all the other things that I was told all "good students" were constantly preparing for. Check out this week's...
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S1E6: Improbable Over Practical
School teaches us to think within the bounds of practicality. From a young age, we're taught imagining and dreaming larger-than-life scenarios is okay, but has no use in the "real world." This week I draw from one of my favorite Disney movies, Up, to explain why sometimes we have to prioritize…
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S1E5: You Already Made It
One thing I learned in school for sure was: it's not good unless someone else says so. That's right, I'm talking about grades. Internally, I began to transfer this feeling to everything I put effort to in life - it only mattered if someone else says so. This mantra left me feeling like success...
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S1E4: Count the Cost
Short-term costs, long-term costs, fixed costs, and variable costs. All topics that will not be covered in this episode. The single greatest cost we experience on our day to day is not related to money at all, actually. It's our energy. Check out this episode as I discuss how to evaluate where…
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S1E3: The Center
What happens if you just work out your arms and legs a bunch and never make your core stronger? This episode has a first hand account from 15-year old me. But the bigger point is, what happens when you constantly focus on the outside, and forget about your center? Check out this episode for some...
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S1E2: Do the Hard Things First
When I was in school, teachers always told me to do the easy problems first. This way I would get some momentum and that "easiness" would carry me through the hard problems. Check out this episode to find out why that approach didn't help me make progress on anything other than homework.
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S1E1: Be Honest with Yourself
It's easy to tell ourselves we're happy. In fact, other people seem to like us more when we always seem happy. I'm here to say it's okay not to be...but if you want to change that, you're going to have to be brutally honest with yourself.
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Season One Trailer
In the first season, I'll be sharing what I learned over the last year that completely changed how I saw myself and thought about my future. In just over a year, these life lessons took me from some of my lowest of lows to a life now where most nights I'm too excited to fall asleep. This season…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
You want the truth? I'm not an expert in anything. I'm just a guy who looked up at twenty years old in college and realized I was learning how to be useful - not happy. So I'm not speaking as an expert, but a conversation starter. A conversation about what life would look like if we lived by what makes us happy, not useful.
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Josh Krivanek
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You want the truth? I'm not an expert in anything. I'm just a guy who looked up at twenty years old in college and realized I was learning how to be useful - not happy. So I'm not speaking as an expert, but a conversation starter. A conversation about what life would look like if we lived by what...
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