Dan Martell - October 13, 2025


Do you have to go to university

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Episode Stats


Length

40 seconds

Words per minute

268.79

Word count

180

Sentence count

11

Harmful content

Toxicity

6

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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If you want to be a software programmer, you don't have to go to university. If you don t need to be an editor, a photographer, or a writer, then go live in hostels and travel the world. The ROI of that is way bigger than going to University.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 What do you think about university?
00:00:01.340 I'm not anti-university.
00:00:03.200 I'm anti-wasting your money and your time
00:00:05.460 on things that aren't going to get you what you want.
00:00:07.140 If your goal is to be in a certain profession
00:00:09.460 that doesn't need university, 1.00
00:00:11.040 then wasting your time at university is fucking dumb. 1.00
00:00:13.200 If you want to be a doctor, you have to go to university. 1.00
00:00:14.760 If you want to be a software programmer,
00:00:16.000 you 100% don't have to go to university. 0.99
00:00:17.660 If you want to be a fucking editor or photographer, 0.99
00:00:19.240 you don't have to go to university. 0.99
00:00:20.300 I'm not a fan of saddling people down with so much debt.
00:00:23.760 That's my problem at university is that
00:00:25.500 you need to figure out what is the problem
00:00:27.460 you're trying to solve.
00:00:28.180 And for most people, the problem they're trying to solve,
00:00:30.220 university's not the best move.
00:00:31.480 Take a year off, take 10 grand, go live in hostels
00:00:34.540 and travel the world and make it a concerted effort
00:00:37.000 to meet people.
00:00:37.840 The ROI of that's gonna be way bigger than go to university.