In this episode, we discuss how we don’t need the approval to do a lot of things in life.
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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons that you can reflect on in your journal so you can grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and have a better career, better relationships, and better personal finances while you enjoy your morning cup of coffee.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
In today’s episode, we are going to talk about how the Wright brothers didn’t need pilot licenses to fly airplanes. When it came to flying a plane for the Wright brothers, they were the first ones to do it. There were no college institutions, government agencies, certification programs, or other experts that could tell the Wright brothers on how to fly a plane.
They had to learn on their own through studying first and through trial and error. I’m sharing this story with you today to tell you to know that you don’t need someone else to give you permission to do something. You don’t need to spend four years getting a college degree, or you have to wait your turn to get that promotion. You can do stuff today that can allow you to skip the line.
College is getting very expensive and it’s basically an HR department for businesses. People go to college so that this institution says they are competent at finishing college. Now back four years ago when that many people didn’t have college educations, that could separate you from the pack. Now with education inflation, you might need to get a master’s education for a job that pays $60,000.
Employers don’t have a way to separate candidates from each other, so they just look at education and past job experience. After living in DC for six and a half years, I realized that it’s not what you know, it’s who you know that is going to give you the opportunities that you desire.
So to save yourself two years and a $100,000 in tuition, I recommend that people do the following. Start networking and work on your portfolio of skills that you can show other people. You can work on your networking skills by taking Jordan Haribinger’s Networking course. You can just google this. And then while you’re building up your network, work on your portfolio of skills.
If you’re into cybersecurity, start writing papers and recording videos, so that you can publishing them. The idea is that if someone needs someone in cybersecurity, they can see all the videos and articles that you wrote and you will stand out more than the person that doesn’t.
You don’t need to go to college to tell you that you can do something. Colleges teach their students at the lowest common denominator, which is the slowest student and the standard pace is for chumps. You can read all the books ahead of time and do the other stuff to make you stand out as a cybersecurity expert in a year before you ever finish your four-year degree.
And since you’ve been working on your network for the past year with people in the cybersecurity field, then you will have more opportunities than the person who just went at the standard pace. Plus if you know your stuff, then someone will gladly hire you. Now not all institutions are like this, but the ones that will survive just care is the person can get the job done.
There are many ways you can show expertise, and you do something like the Wright Brothers where you’re the first one to fly without a degree, then people won’t care if you got the degree or not, they can see that you know how to fly.
And that’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, remember that the Wright Brothers didn’t have pilot licenses to help them reach their goals. Those need to get certifications and everything might just slow you down and cost you money. Somethings in college is very valuable to learn, but you have to ask yourself if there is a faster way. And I believe networking and working in your portfolio, will be the key to getting to your goals faster. So don’t have imposter syndrome and self-limiting beliefs hold you back from pursuing your goals and learn how to fly like the Wright brothers.
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