Great answer especially the last sentence. Thank you!Depends.
Before I dropped out of college, I had many things to "unlearn."
Most importantly, I had to "unlearn" most of what my parents taught me.
@Ubermensch relates to @Mattie because the teenage version of @Ubermensch years ago locked himself in his room and turned the Eminem knockin' in his headphones all the way the F*ck up.
Eventually, this "unlearning" resulted in a F*ck this, F*ck this, F*ck this directed at the notion of getting a degree, just so I could make $80,000 a year for the rest of my life.
Nowadays, $80,000 is just one payday for me.
More important than "unlearning," I think, is learning.
What to learn?
Learn to give up immediate gratification (the chocolate chip cookie, ice cream, apple pie and cake) in pursuit of a higher goal: a chick-magnet body.
Learn to set small goals, instead of setting lofty, mountainous goals.
Learn sales.
Learn how to close deals.
Learn to focus on each, individual step of the process - with the same degree of attention and focus that champions (Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan, Sir Richard Branson, Usain Bolt, Elon Musk, Muhammed Ali, Bruce Lee) apply to assure victory.
Learn to recognize the difference between genuine criticism and good, old-fashioned hate. Absorb the former, even if it stings when you do (it will only make you better). Disregard the latter, because most of them are just jealous and secretly love you.
Learn to recognize the difference between practical advice... and wishy-washy, new age, politically correct bullshit.
Learn to accept the fact that truth and reality are what they are; you cannot change them. The extent to which you change the world is related to the degree to which you study reality, accept for what it is - and then therefore understand how to manipulate it.
Learn to accept the fact that the truth will often most people, because the truth hurts.
Learn to recognize logical fallacies, and how to use critical thinking to analyze empirical data. Most humans do not think correctly. This merely offers opportunity for would-be shepherds of sheeple... or wolves.
Lean the facts about where you live. Do you have any idea how old the Universe is? How about the globe... any idea how old it is? Any idea how long life has existed on this planet? Human life?
Are you okay with being stupifyingly ignorant?
If not then learn, and never stop.
Learn that success truly is the best revenge, because it makes them all look so stupid, because their words are frozen in history, because they know that you know that they know that you won, and they lost.
Learn to not bet against the wrong person. Learn to bet on the right people, to find the positive allies in life that will help you grow.
Learn to find people that you can win with, who you can feel excited about their success in the same way you are excited about your own.
Learn that their words won't hurt you once you start hittin' your account with deposit after deposit, over and over - like Mike Tyson hittin' the bag, over and over.
Learn that there are some people that you should ally with, and some that you should never start a war with, because they'll remember.
There is nothing worse than a patient enemy with a long memory.
Lol. And learn to not take life too seriously.
Learn that true life means being free and untouchable.
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