Dan Martell - February 24, 2026


Does an education mean anything in 2026?


Episode Stats


Length

34 seconds

Words per minute

225.69444

Word count

130

Sentence count

11

Harmful content

Toxicity

2

sentences flagged


Summary

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When my kids come to me with a report card, I don t look at it as a test to quantify if they know how to memorize things. I look at the skill of being successful is not memorization, it's a game of character development.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 When my kids come to me with a report card, I don't look.
00:00:02.720 I don't need to see what somebody else created as a test
00:00:05.500 to quantify if you know how to memorize things.
00:00:09.000 The skill of being successful is not memorization.
00:00:12.300 It's a game of character development.
00:00:13.820 The only thing I ask my school
00:00:15.280 is to make sure my kids can read, write, and do basic math.
00:00:18.440 Everything else, it's on me.
00:00:20.040 I will take care of the character development.
00:00:21.540 I will encourage them to take risks in safe ways.
00:00:24.800 I will celebrate their failures.
00:00:27.040 You know, every night when they go to bed,
00:00:28.220 I ask them, what did you fail at today?
00:00:29.340 I'd rather teach them the principles around life. 0.98
00:00:32.220 That's worth more than straight fucking A's. 0.99