so you’re going to college for the either back ecology or been the military okay the number one out of the gate crush it that’s what you should do in college you should crush it you should study hard and you should crush it now in order to do that you got to get a mindset because guess what you’re gonna be thinking you get out of the military may be like oh this is no big deal and all this does this doesn’t matter like hey I was in I was in Iraq eight months ago I was in Afghanistan six months ago and now you’re sitting here tell me to read a book and write down words on a piece of paper this doesn’t matter mm-hmm that’s an easy that’s an easy path to go down mmm it’s pretty easy said you know why because it’s actually true and what you did in combat has more gravity and more consequence than anything you’re going to do in college and if you want to go down that path and be this stuff doesn’t matter this isn’t important compared to what I’ve done so I’m gonna blow it off that’s a path you can go down if you want to I don’t recommend it what I recommend you doing is straight up crushing college that’s what I meant recommend you doing how do you do that because it everybody if you make that decision that you want to crush it if you want to make the decision that you’re gonna prove to people that you know what yeah I was overseas I was in combat now I’m coming back and your little games that you’re playing I’m going to beat you in your own games so how do you do that number one do the reading that you get assigned do the assignments that you get tasked with do everything let that be your new job these silly little games that they’re Plett them be your job like I’m talking about OCS we’re on to OCS I made that like a game for me that I was going to win so do that with college and then on top of that make it a game yes but then on top of that as a deeper commander’s intent make it that you’re going to not just do well there as a game but you’re going to do well so you can get smarter you can really actually learn information that’s gonna make you a better person and give you better ability to dominate in the world that’s what you should be doing in college now these kids that you’re gonna be going to college with they’re not going to have this attitude they’re gonna be you know hey what do I need to do to get by what’s sali doing tonight I’m more concerned about that than I am about going out dominating this course so that I can get an A so that I have knowledge so I can go and crush some some vocation later on in life so don’t just do it as a game you got to play the game a little bit I mean you got a gap for me I get the game mentality going but I’m the game mentality is rooted in something deeper and what it’s rooted in is gaining knowledge to be smarter and better as a human now a couple things about college and the actual tactics techniques and procedures to dominate because when I went to college I did dominate and when I went to high school I did not dominate when out of high school I didn’t care about high school I was like whatever god when can I go in the military right kick it when can I go now so but when I went to college I had a new attitude which was I’m gonna dominate I mean I’m in a battle against these people here I’m gonna meet them so this is some of the things that are important number one college is all about time management getting ahead of the curve because it’s so easy that’s what happens with kids in college that’s why they don’t do well because for the first time there’s no one tracking them no one’s imposing discipline on them you have to have in order to do well in college you have to have self-discipline because no one’s going to tell you to start that paper that’s due in six weeks no one’s gonna tell you to start it tomorrow you know you know you can just blow it off you can blow it off for five and a half weeks and then you’ve got to write a 30-page paper in two days and it’s gonna it’s not going to be quality yep no one can ask you have you done your homework before dinner that’s right so you need to get the time management going you need to get a discipline time management schedule you need to get ahead of the curve as early as possible right you know when you want to know papers do a 30 page paper do you need to write in chunks and it makes it so easy I mean it was a joke when I was going to college I would have my papers completely done like a week out like a week out I would be done with a 30-page paper and then I would just be reviewing it and getting it all completely dialed and I’d turn it in two days early and then but move on to the next one same thing with studying you don’t want to study you do want to study hard right before the day of the test but you want to have knowledge already absorbed in there so you want to we want to study leading up to that when you do reading that I talked about highlight break out the highlighters that’s what I do in all these books that were hammering through right now you know I always send out pictures um they’re all highlighted and marked up and that’s how I’m getting the good information out of them so highlight and then another little trick is to make the flashcards I used to highlight and then I would make flashcards about what I highlighted yeah turn everything into a question and then you go through the flashcards and you’re gonna you’re gonna memorize stuff hmm oh here’s the big one this is really obvious but guess what people don’t ask questions ask questions I used to raise my hand stir I would sit in the front row first of all in college i sat in the front row I was 20 I was a 20 I think I was 27 or 28 years old going to college I would sit in the front row in a little desk and I look like Arnold Schwarzenegger and like a little kids day ID then I’d raised my hand all the way up like all the way up over my head and they’d be looking at me you know cuz in college they kind of stopped raising their hand but I did it anyways just to be be you just be yeah just just to do it so I’d raise my and but you ask questions because guess what the college kids they don’t ask questions and and guess what adults don’t ask questions why don’t they ask questions they had an ego they don’t want to look stupid it you know I don’t care no I mean I want I’m here to win exactly oh I owe you don’t think I’m smart let’s check out the GPA homeboy you know I’m zan so ask questions if I didn’t ask questions as soon as that assumed is the knowledge as soon as the understanding train starts to derailed a little bit ask the question right then maybe give it maybe give it a minute to see if you can get it back on track by yourself but the minute you realize you’re not understanding raise your hand and say hey you know what teacher I don’t understand that can you relay that because I’m not understanding yeah you don’t wanna miss the train I don’t want to miss the train you don’t want to go too far off course and then you’re just lost you know so when you feel it coming off try and catch up real quick you can take a look and then just raise your hand put your hand all the way up in the air sit in the front row put your hand all the way up in the air and look at the teacher with with a dead serious face and they’re gonna look at you all nervous and be like yes yeah yeah that’s the only one I went to college they called me John because because that’s what the attendance sheet said because my real name is John and that’s a key attendance sheet said and so they’d be sitting there and they’d say yes John and I’d say yeah I don’t understand that could you reexpose hey when they called you John did that fuel the fire no not at all it’s it doesn’t matter to me but it’s the only time because like I didn’t know these people because normally if I’m gonna work with someone when I introduce myself I’d be like hey my name is Jacque because that’s what everyone always calls me but these people would call my name in attendance and I didn’t want to have this you know adversarial release yes I saw yes John that’s me the other thing is you know do some psychological warfare you know I would line up my pencils I do it on the podcast you Bowl right here I line up pencils it’s a it’s a it’s also getting into character right you’re priming yes I’m priming myself I’m looking at the teacher like I am so ready to take notes that if I have a downed pencil it will not cost me a single letter I’ll be back in the game are your contingency yeah I continue to festas are standing by and then so I sit in the front row line up your pencils have your notebooks ready personally challenge the teacher you wanted to you want your personal challenge to be to pull every piece of knowledge out of them and then go beyond what they know I was I was I was competing with the teachers I was trying to learn more than they actually do it and then they bring their little test rule exams you and you just crush them and smash now the thing you gotta be careful of here is this can get political this can get political and if you start being offensive with the way you act if you start rubbing it in their face then guess what that can affect your grade and part of the game here is to get a good grade so you actually it’s a time for you to start building your relationship building skills time to start building your leadership skills because you’re gonna start manipulating the teacher right you want to make them think that you’re actually super interested in those stupid crap class that they’re teaching I want them to think that not out now some classes you’re gonna love they’re going to you’re gonna learn a lot from like if you’re into English and you get to take advanced grammar and syntax you’re going to be sitting there like yes this is rocks but there’s me some classes you don’t want to take but you got to get in there and make your teacher think that you’re super interested in super fired up to learn that thing and that you’re not just interested in the grade but at the same time they got to know that grade is important do you do so you want to get along with them and again go into college and if you’re a veteran you representing all of us out there so you should be going in there and just smashing college
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