Trust me, may be not, most of the drop outs are really worth “drop-out”. Its the natures’ calling to do what you are not supposed to do. Is it the way nature works? I am perplexed, yet excited. Juxtaposing a dozen of famous Entrepreneurs with a whole lot of students who actually drop out every year, I am left with no choice to understand them; understand them clearly! Before I compare the nill people with people who are comparable to null. Lets see our ‘genuine-drop-outs‘, Bill Gates dropped out from Harvard and built a company unmatchable to none, Microsoft. Steve Jobs dropped out from Reed College, as a high school student. He was 21 when he started the Apple company from his garage. Einstein although he failed in exam and dropped out from high school but his scenario was different, though he did PhD and won Noble prize as well. Mark Zuckerberg another Harvard drop out. Who doesn’t know Facebook that he created while living in his dorm room; which spreaded like a wild fire in a couple of years after its launch. Michael Dell dropped out from UT Austin, a PC freak, built the multinational company ‘DELL’ purely based on his entrepreneurial instincts and interest in computers. Ted Turner Do you know the first 24-hour cable news channel, its CNN, and he was the founder. Dropped out from Brown university but it was worth it – atleast for him. William Hanna You must have heard or enjoyed the famous cartoons like ‘Scooby-Doo’, ‘The Flintstones’, or ‘The Jetsons’ and so on. William Hanna co-founded the company “Hanna-Barbara” with ‘Joseph Barbera’. He dropped out from college because of un-wanted circumstances (i.e. Great Depression of 1929) but good for him as he paved his way towards success nevertheless. Thomas Edison inventor of bulb William Shakespeare Walt Disney Abraham Lincoln … Lets take a break here as the list can grow bigger and bigger, and mentioning all the famous drop outs is not the purpose.
Why I need to be dropped out? is my question. Well, to be honest, this question might confuse people like me, who wants to follow the path to success, while getting inspiration from the people I just mentioned above. Do they (the people above) really got the substance which proper education cannot fulfill. Proper education only gives you or makes you think in a proper direction. Someone said, real success is in making new paths instead of following successful paths. The sentence is apparent in the character of the people (above) who most certainly changed our life in one way or the other. If I want to be a successful ‘entrepreneur’, I don’t need to get dropped out unless my current state lends me all the time to complete my education. If I still drop out and don’t become a famous figure, I would join the failed majority and keep asking from God for the next life so that I can think different in the time I have given and get dropped out in a positive sense!
Is it a secretive path to success or a coincidence? Does God gives this path to every one and we just have to find it! One wonders, why they didnt completed the education, became regular eligible graduates, and than started establishing what they established later on at their immature time. But things just click once, all they did was to capture that moment. Someone said, fortunate are those who got the moment and were ready and unfortunate are those who also got the moment but were not ready. Here, ‘ready‘ means ‘ready to make a difference’ or ‘do some thing’ . To be ready or not, is not out of the world. The proper discourse of education brings a person to be ready to any moment he is capable of. Even, doing beyond what you can do or learnt of is neither luck nor fortune, its fate. Sometimes it’s beneficial and sometimes it’s not.
Reaching to the few final words…
I just want that moment and capture it where I can make some difference or change – not the change that Obama speaks of – but the one that realizes in me the true hidden potential that was unseen of previously or maybe it was blanketed under the blind following of norms that restricted me to think apart.
In conclusion, it is a path to success! who really know what the path is.
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