You want to know the best advice I ever got? It was very counterintuitive…
It was my first week of being at Stanford, and we each had an advisor who took us out to coffee and would share some advice. And my advisor told me something I’ll never forget.
She said, “You can take up to 20 units.” And look, everybody who comes to Stanford — a lot people — they want to be academic studs. They want to take 20 units because it’s “so cool, so hard.”
She told me, “Take 12. Literally take the minimum.” And I looked at her, like, “...WHAT?!” I was used to overachieving and I saw 12 as UNDERachieving.
She said, “You’re not here simply to take classes. Especially your first year, you’re here to make friends. You’re here to join clubs. You’re here to meet professors. So don’t worry about taking MORE classes right now. Just focus on meeting a bunch of people.”
That was some of the best advice I ever got. If you want to meet like-minded people and get more counterintuitive advice, join my Money Coaching program to get LIVE, monthly help straight from me ➡️ iwt.com/moneycoaching-ct
I Will Teach You To Be Rich
You want to know the best advice I ever got? It was very counterintuitive…
It was my first week of being at Stanford, and we each had an advisor who took us out to coffee and would share some advice. And my advisor told me something I’ll never forget.
She said, “You can take up to 20 units.” And look, everybody who comes to Stanford — a lot people — they want to be academic studs. They want to take 20 units because it’s “so cool, so hard.”
She told me, “Take 12. Literally take the minimum.” And I looked at her, like, “...WHAT?!” I was used to overachieving and I saw 12 as UNDERachieving.
She said, “You’re not here simply to take classes. Especially your first year, you’re here to make friends. You’re here to join clubs. You’re here to meet professors. So don’t worry about taking MORE classes right now. Just focus on meeting a bunch of people.”
That was some of the best advice I ever got. If you want to meet like-minded people and get more counterintuitive advice, join my Money Coaching program to get LIVE, monthly help straight from me
➡️ iwt.com/moneycoaching-ct
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