Obviously we here at the Daily Hustle have repeatedly revisited the two things my Dad said he and my Mom could give me that nobody would ever be able to take away…
Education & Experience.
Most of us go through formal education that takes us through high school and then some form of college usually seems to be the next step…
That said, there is an iconic scene in Good Will Hunting when Matt Damon’s character Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, runs into an MIT grad student in a bar… The student went into some BS monologue in which he began to plagiarize Gordon Wood’s thoughts on pre-revolutionary utopia…
Will immediately calls him on it, then this was his response:
“See the sad thing about a guy like you, is in about 50 years you’re gonna start doin’ some thinkin’ on your own and you’re gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One, don’t do that. And two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin’ education you coulda’ got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library.”
That is the most brilliant, beautiful thing about reading… whether you go to a top university or just about any public library, access to books and the knowledge & wisdom that comes with them is available to each and every one of us…
The difference is that Universities’ give us guidance and often with a politically skewed angle, whereas when we read on our own we are left to analyze and think for ourselves… As much as we need books in our lives, we also need to be sure to create our own book as well. Knowledge only becomes wisdom when we are able to articulate it in our own words…
As the famed Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson once said:
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
-EB
P.S. Have you hopped on a Team GoHard Foot Reflexology Board yet?
