Quote · On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Lucy Guo: The Fastest Way to Build a Business Today (The #1 Strategy That Saves You Months of Wasted Work)
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Is College Still Worth It?
At 1:57 · chapter starts 1:11
Jay opens with the question: what advice about success is most outdated? Lucy pivots straight to college, arguing that degrees are increasingly irrelevant in an AI-driven world. But she sidesteps the anti-college camp entirely by making a more precise claim — that 1–2 years of college is 'extremely useful' precisely because it is the only moment in life when strangers are universally open to deep emotional connection [1] — Lucy Guo "College is outdated as an education system, but it remains the single best place to build deep emotional connections. It is the only time i…" 03:33 . She describes hiring her own Carnegie Mellon TA and computer science 'little' based on relationships built in class, and investing in friends she met at hackathons across the US. The throughline is practical: college is not about coursework, it is about building the emotional foundation for a lifetime of sales, retention, and recruitment.
College is outdated as an education system, but it remains the single best place to build deep emotional connections. It is the only time in life when everyone around you is simultaneously open to friendship with no agenda — and the talented people you meet will go on to multimillion-dollar careers you can tap into for decades.
Lucy Guo believes your network is your net worth, and college is the best place in life to build deep emotional connections because everyone is open to making friends.
