How To Become Dangerously Self-Educated (with AI)
Dan Martell · 4,281 words · 21 min read · EN-ORIG

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What do these great minds have in common? Henry Ford left school at 15 and taught himself mechanics on a farm, and he later became the world's second billionaire. Walt Disney, the guy who reinvented the whole animation industry, dropped out of high school at 16. Even Elon Musk taught himself how to program at 12. He's now on a mission to colonize
Mars. Did you see the pattern? While everyone else memorized what they were told, they took it upon themselves to learn and grow. The system called them dropouts. History calls them legends. I got put on ADHD medication at 11. Taken out of my home at 12, and in my late teens I'd been in and out of jail. And
it was in rehab where I saw it, a yellow book on Java programming sitting on a desk. And I taught myself to code from that book. That one book put me on a path that led to me building and exiting three tech companies before I was 35. And every bit of the life I have today.
Here's the problem. The school system doesn't reward education, it rewards memorization. And that's created a generation of people addicted to what I call shelf-help. Reading books, binging podcasts, buying freaking courses, and doing nothing with any of it. Trust me, I have my own graveyard of courses. You're not the problem, the method you
inherited is. Today, the tools to self-educate are better than any classroom. So, in this video, I'm going to teach you my self system. Seven steps to teach you anything with AI as your unfair advantage. Your education in your own hands. Starting with select it. What should I actually learn? There's a gap between what most people learn and what
people actually need to learn. Growing up, your parents picked for you. Schools picked for you. Today, the algorithm is picking for you. It feels like learning, but it's so much wasted learning because it's just for learning's sake. So, for once in your life, let's take that power back. And to do that, the first thing
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