Dan Martell - October 12, 2025


Should you go to university

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Parenting advice Do you have to go to university

Episode Stats


Length

56 seconds

Words per minute

280.11

Word count

262

Sentence count

12


Summary

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If I had 4 years, what advice would I give my younger self about going to college, what would I do, and how would I live my life if I had those 4 years back to back? We discuss it all in this episode.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I've been looking at your tips, especially the ones about university.
00:00:02.460 I'm going this fall.
00:00:03.440 I don't want to feel like I'm wasting my next four years.
00:00:06.560 So you're going to go and you want to get the most out of those four years.
00:00:09.160 Yeah.
00:00:09.460 If I had four years, man, I would go with you.
00:00:11.780 So I'll give you the answer that I wish I could have done,
00:00:14.260 but I don't have time to do now.
00:00:15.540 First off, I would care this much about my grades.
00:00:18.100 I just can't get kicked out because my parents will be upset.
00:00:20.940 Two, find the smartest people that you can meet.
00:00:23.700 Spend as much time as you can with them without being weird.
00:00:25.840 Like when you build your business and your ad account gets shut down,
00:00:28.620 you want to be able to call that guy you're working on this project and some guy says you
00:00:32.920 can't build that thing that way you want to call the material science guy and be like hey bobby
00:00:36.620 remember me this guy said we can't do this he'll be like oh no here's the science tell him to do
00:00:40.580 this you see what i'm saying yeah i would use university as a professional networking environment
00:00:45.300 i would go to class not to get kicked out and i would talk to as many smart people as i can and
00:00:49.300 if you did that for four years do you know how crazy your network would be so if you don't want
00:00:54.480 to waste it, you got to go, do that.