Brain Food: Apprenticeship

3. Learn to think independently

Entrepreneurship is very difficult to teach because original thinking is very difficult to teach. School is not set up to teach this—in fact, it generally rewards the opposite. So you have to cultivate it on your own.

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At some point in their teenage years—and sometimes earlier—the future geniuses would apprentice themselves intellectually to someone with exceptional capacity in their field.

Football never taught me a thing, but the men who coached me helped me to learn life.

This is where we mess up in sports and other extra-curricular activities. We believe the activity is the teacher.

The activity is the medium through which teaching takes place.

Football didn’t teach me anything, but football coaches helped me to learn to be a man. Co

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