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James Altucher大学不教却必须掌握的技能： 他高中辍学，开了家公司，但是经营不善。经历诸多之后，又开了另一家公司，还拜托我给他公司提点建议。 我并没能给出什么好的建议，但在聊天中我们就他高中辍学这件事讨论了一番。 他告诉我，当他弄明白如何“学会学习”时，就不再需要学校教育了。 我不能判断出此话的真伪，但我很欣赏他提到的“学会学习”。 他曾开发过一个APP，但是无人问津，即便是原来支持他的朋友后来也不待见他了。但是一两年后我再回首此事时，很庆幸当时没有贸然给出我的建议。 他也倍受打击，想不通为什么辛苦开发的APP不能如他所愿地火起来。当然，没人能够预测未来，管你是哈佛博士还是高中辍学生。 于是他挨个打电话给一些公司的高层，想知道这个APP的哪些功能是他们觉得有用的。 他约见了近50位各行各业的顶尖技术人才，倾听他们的困惑，理清问题的症结，研究解决的方案。 然后他重新编写、宣传了这个APP，改动微乎其微。这已经是四年之后的事了。 我不知道他是否已将他的公司广而告之，所以在此我不能透露公司名。但是他刚以2亿5千万美元的市值估价完成6千万美元的融资。在今年他将大有作为，前程似锦。 介绍给我这款经过更新的APP的友人曾评价道：“我从我未见过如此契合产品描述的产品性能。没人不想买。” 他受教育程度低吗？当然不，这么多年他阅历丰富，所经历的比我认识的任何一个人都多。 他的计算机知识完善了吗？当然没有，但是他开发了一套自己的程序来帮助别人解决问题。如果我没记错的话，谷歌就是他的顶级投资商之一。 我后悔过自己不能给出建议吗？倒也没有，我更适合在幕后埋头苦干，而非在前方引导别人。 如果你不能抓住每一个实现自己的梦想的机会，就只能一直跟在别人后面跑，实现的都是他人的梦想。 有必要知己所能与所不能，因为我喜欢用自己的方式书写人生。 世事已经大为不同，回首历史，从凯撒大帝的第一代人起，每一代人都不可避免地比上一代人挣的更少，首当其冲的便是欠了1.2万亿美元助学贷款的我们。 这不仅仅是美国的现状，全世界都受困于此。我们挣得比父辈们少，却被灌输“去上学，就能升职加薪，当上总经理，出任CEO，走向人生巅峰。” 我们都被谎言误导了。 诚然，现如今太多可以利用的学习渠道。我可以通过网络免费上大多数想学习的课程，可以用kindle阅读任意一本书。 只要有一台电脑（向大学辍学生乔布斯和比尔盖茨致敬），就可以时刻关注朋友的上线状态（向大学辍学生马克.扎克伯格致敬），可以比以往任意一次都便宜地诊断病症（向大学辍学生伊丽莎白.福尔摩斯致敬）， 只要我想（但是我不想），就能消息灵通，走在时代前沿（向大学被开除的特德.特纳致敬），我的饮食还会非常健康（向大学辍学生全食超市创始人约翰.麦基致敬）。 你可能会说：这些都只是名人轶事。的确，我没法反驳。但是，我也能阅读，写作，社交，吃饭，保持健康……我还有大把的时间和精力去学习。 其实我也属于名人轶事的一员。我大学毕业后念研究生却半途而废（正是昨晚还和我共进晚餐的那个朋友告诉了我关于那个高中辍学生的近况） 于是我开始读我想读的书，过我想过的生活。但这些花了颇多时间，因为我实在兴趣广泛热情太盛。但我仍清楚坚定自己要走的路。 我希望我的子女们不要浪费时间，直接学习“如何学习”。我曾看过一个研究报告，孩子上完课45分钟后，课堂内容就会忘得一干二净。 无论你上不上大学，你唯一能学到知识的途径是：
这也只是“轶事”之一，我没有研究报告可以佐证这个理论，但这的确是我学习的不二法门。 我的小孩将会在家接受教育。我清楚他们的热情与兴趣所在，所以我要他们将精力用在探索感兴趣的未知上，而非将时间浪费在必遭遗忘的无聊之事上。 将毕生激情投入到未竟事业中，通过改变自己而影响世界，为他人打开通向新世界的大门。 这些技能你无法从大学得到却必须掌握： 以下为英文原文： 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, “learn 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: 近期热门两个人结婚最不可思议的理由是什么？
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