Dropping out of school to do Youtube full time! 🤗❤️🤗

I like to be really open and honest and
share my life with you guys and I felt like this was a dramatic life change that I needed to make a video about and the whole professional hockey player thing didn't really seem like something that was gonna happen so as I got older I was starting to realize okay probably not gonna make any real money playing professional sports so I just wanted to sit down and make a whole video on my experience with education and why I dropped out of school and didn't go to university and why I don't plan to go to university and that's when I realized a nine-to-five kind of job just really isn't for me I hate doing things on other people's terms I hate just having to get up in the morning and do things at a certain time in a certain way so I was thinking okay if I'm gonna go to university for something [Music] I can't believe I've been sitting so long fooling with the clouds that's done these days before see I met this girl and she was so fun I've been thinking about this and meditating and praying about it for a while and like I said whenever I pushed it off I would be okay and everything would be fine as long as I wasn't thinking about like what am I gonna do with my life am I really happy but every time like at the end of my yoga practice or we're not just really thinking about it and trying to listen to myself all these emotions would come up and I would feel like I just wasn't really following the right path [Music] [Music] the warning I'm about to share with you applies to both YouTube and Western academia it applies to both although it applies to them in different ways no matter what career path you're looking on it's dangerous and misleading to only consider success stories don't look at the greatest luminaries don't look at the most successful people in the field and think oh if I go into that field I can be like them give a moment's thought to the range of mediocre outcomes that are possible really think through the worst case scenario not just the best case scenario and needless to say it's not just the case that here on YouTube for every one person who's as successful as tests beg or Caitlin shoemaker there's a surrounding halo should we say that there's a surrounding crater of thousands on thousands of people who tried very hard and never about the outcome and never got the success even more invisibly if you go to university and you take a look at the most successful professors academics researchers the most successful graduates from that program the University you may be able to find a few examples of successful luminaries but then there are thousands there's a huge crater there's a huge surrounding halo of failure that's much much harder to see it's much harder to find a trace of its it's a strange fact that about one year ago my mother was really positive about the idea that I would drop out of university my second university degree I already have a bachelor's degree whatever that I would drop out of university and just do youtube full-time she has a lifetime of experience with university and when she looks at my youtube channel when she looks at the fact that I can upload a video talking about Aristotle like politics and history and ancient Greece I can upload a video about Aristotle and 500 people watch that video within just a few days she's sensitive the fact that that is not a small number compared to friends and colleagues and friends of hers who may have worked very very hard their whole lives to get academic credentials and present papers at conferences and publish a book and the book is never read by 500 people in many cases the book will not even sell 200 copies I used to work in academic nonfiction in a publishing house as an editor I've seen that story from many different sides and angles from the side of the author from the start of the publisher from start of the industry from the side of the audience to some extent to oh so you know it wasn't completely ridiculous that my mother would have this attitude that what I should do is develop myself as an author and creative artist building on what had already started here on YouTube it's not completely ridiculous but it's wrong something I said to my mother something I said to one of our professors University of Victoria - is that a similar conversation with one of my professors one of my professors who was encouraging me to drop out of the program even though I have grades that are eight plus plus use the example of dr. Jordan Peterson why is dr. Peterson successful on YouTube because before he was successful on YouTube he appeared in a long series of appear on mainstream television first he appeared on TV Ontario and then he appeared on CBC the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation okay so his YouTube success was a result of conventional television success why did he appear on conventional television because he has a PhD why did a book publisher offer to gather together his casual Q&A commentary from websites he did some Q&A and publish it as a book why did he get a book publishing deal because he had a PhD because he was a professor so even with these bizarre examples of people being successful as public intellectuals here on YouTube look you can want to look at you know dr. jordan peterson or any of the other you know peculiar characters who've done that the role of formal education and getting a formal credential it's it's not that it helps them it's just that it's a requirement all right there's a difference between studying in university and actually being useful for you in some way and the diploma the degree that credential simply being a requirement for doing what you want to do now my mother has seen you know failures in academia and around academia of many constants I've seen it too I've seen people with PhDs whose lives have really been utterly destroyed by those PhDs I've seen people with PhDs who after they finished their degree were left lurking in the hallways of Cambridge University struggling to pay rent somewhere within a bus ride distance of the university and you know they'd finish their studies they're still hanging around they're applying for internships they're applying for fellowships they're applying for research opportunities that pay next to nothing they don't know what to do with their lives of course back when I was at the publisher I had all these people with PhDs trying to publish books with us hoping for some way to take a step forward in their lives and I met those people with PhDs who were living in Beijing China as humble English teachers who were living in Bangkok Thailand who were living in vientiane laos people with PhDs who were doing jobs that you could have done right after completing high school i remember one guy who got a job as a selling bottles of wine standing there doing retail remember another guy got a job as a line cook with his with his PhD in anthropology great i've seen people you know across its kind of this tremendous range of shades of gray of you know living in a state of self-hating depression and devastation that they got their PhD and then were not able to do with it anything that wanted to do many times there's also a regret and a resentment that they got this education but they never learned what it is they wanted to learn in the same way that for everyone youtube channel as successful as test bag there are thousands and thousands and thousands of young women who you know wear the same revealing attire and jump up and down and bounce around and put their recipes on the internet and who are never gonna make you know 500 bucks out of out of doing this okay but of course the mistake test bag made was to drop out of high school to do this full-time whether we're talking about university education or talking about youtube or talking about the strange way in which the two sometimes overlapped someone like jordan peterson who used his PhD to manage to himself social media fame bizarre bizarre but true and who knows there was talk just a couple of years ago people were talking about him running for prime minister of canada he may go on to have a political career now if he ever gets out of drug addiction rehab and gets over his health problems but you know uh stranger things have happened in the history of canada i here right now in america you elected a reality TV star reality TV game show host as oppose became president the United States of America so a youtuber could definitely become Prime Minister of Canada there's no there's still talk about that however the ultimate question you have to ask yourself is about the one outcome that matters most the one outcome you can control okay you don't get to decide whether your career is going to be successful or unsuccessful what you get to decide is what kind of person you want to be all right dropping out of high school changes who you are completing a bachelor's degree in political science leads to no employment of any kind whatsoever right you don't get to choose that every day when I went to University of Victoria and asked for help from a guidance counsellor from the careers office or from the professor who's head of department the only advice that ever gave me was join the army join the CIA do military intelligence it was the only job they ever recommended for me on the basis of my having a university degree in politics and another one in Asian Studies Asian language all right ultimately you have to look at these decisions whether about education or entertainment in terms of being the person you want to be becoming the person you want to become and to that end for that purpose you can't rely on anyone else you have to regard your enrollment at the University as absolutely nothing but a library card space on your desk and space on the calendar to do the research to do the work on to your own motivation under your own guidance that's gonna let you become the person you aspire to be you can plan your life around possible outcomes but there's one outcome that's inevitable you've got to be somebody now choose who is it who is it you really want to be I mean really people like to disrespect my truth but the fact is that you know my name is I don't know