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>>Dropping out of high school to go be a "doer" is a great way to become a high school dropout, not a prodigy.

The adult equivalent of this to quit your comfortable paying jobs to do a start-up. Fail bad, and realise you are landed way behind people with 9-5 jobs.

Most of the times- "Do this scary thing and win" requires lots of luck going for you. In fact it can be attributed luck alone in nearly all cases.

The problem is people think if they work hard enough that chances will be in their favor. That's rarely, if ever the case.

By and large. Study well, get a job, save, invest, tend to your health and relationships. Just do the well set formula. You can't go wrong here.



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