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Learning Through Hands-On Experience

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The speaker shares a personal story about his early career. Despite struggling in college and eventually dropping out, he gained extensive experience in construction, excavating, and landscaping from a young age (18 years old, now 48). He recounts how he managed his business while attending college, occasionally stepping out of class to take business calls, with the understanding of his professors.

Goal: Understand that practical experience and hard work are crucial for business growth.

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  • Business operations Unspecified — Gaining practical experience in managing a company

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can bounce ideas off from so I have I've got a little bit of experience in construction excavating landscaping I've been doing this since I was 18 years old and I'm 48 years old so I've been literally boots in the field for 30-plus years okay it took me about six years to get a two-year college degree schooling was not what my strength was okay now let's fast-forward I'm in Augsburg I'm in st. Thomas College private school I'm paying my way through college and I go to my professor and I say look I'm actually running a business while I'm paying for school and going to school and occasionally I have to take a phone call I have to step out of the classroom so I I kind of let them know ahead of time so that they're not like hey why is this kid walking out of my class all the time so they were all very cool with that very helpful right so my phone goes off and I'm like excuse me professor I'm gonna go out as I'm walking out the professor says well now there goes a real businessman and it stopped me dead in my tracks because I never considered myself to be a real businessman I just considered myself to be somebody that was hardworking driven and willing to go a little bit further than the other person so I ended up dropping out of college because why wouldn't what a great thought I'm so awesome I can just do this without college right smart move no but I did it doesn't make a difference now let's just talk about what happened right after I did that I started to do landscaping jobs I started

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