Dan Martell - Why Grades Don’t Matter As Much As You Think

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52 seconds

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211.76

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In this episode, I talk about how important it is to have emotional intelligence and character in your kids and how to be a good human being. School is designed to make you think that your biggest strength is your biggest weakness. It does not get you ready for success, it teaches you how to stay stuck. It teaches you to be ready to be controlled by other people in the future.

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00:00:00.000 If you're 15, 16, 17 years old, f**k your grades. 1.00

00:00:04.300 School literally is designed to make you think 1.00

00:00:07.020 that your biggest strength is your biggest weakness.

00:00:09.840 It does not get you ready for success.

00:00:12.240 It teaches you how to stay stuck. 0.92

00:00:14.520 It teaches you how to sit there and f**king listen 0.96

00:00:16.920 and memorize things and repeat yourself like a parrot. 0.98

00:00:20.340 It literally teaches you to be ready to be controlled

00:00:22.840 by other people in the future.

00:00:24.180 It keeps you thinking inside the box

00:00:26.460 instead of going way outside of it

00:00:28.360 to create new s**t in the world.

00:00:30.000 because they don't want you to think what i care about for my kids is that they have emotional

00:00:34.400 intelligence that they're good human beings that they have character that when they meet somebody

00:00:38.960 new they look them in the eyes they ask them their name then they can read the room nobody's going to

00:00:43.680 tell you this but the biggest opportunities are going to come those that other people like not

00:00:47.920 Not those that can memorize some f***ing fact from the 1800s about some king that's dead.

Dan Martell - December 12, 2025

Why Grades Don’t Matter As Much As You Think

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