How do you know you're not wasting time? How did you convince yourself?
once you have laid out the arguments you use on yourself - can you figure out why they don't work on your parents? For instance - are you assuming a higher likelihood of success for your startup than they are? Or an easier route back in to college if you get kicked out for failing? Do you know something they don't (or perhaps vice versa)? Do they think college is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and startup ideas will always be there, but you think the opposite? Or is it perhaps a conflict of principles, like you don't care if you do end up working in fast food so long as you gave the startup your best effort, and they think this would be a terrible failure of everything they ever wanted for you?
I got my current mindset after reading many books, articles, pg essays, talking to people and so on. When you become obsessed with something you suck in all the information about the subject out there. I wish I could just show them a 'memory dump' of my brain.
That's what happened when you read similar books, followed like-minded people (and have an unhealthy obsession), do discussion with like-minded people or even steer the topic toward your own pont of view.
That's great, but if you can't literally write out explicit answers to each of my questions, and explicitly in sentences identify why your parents disagree with you, then you don't know what you're doing and you're just following the crowd. If you can't explain it, you don't know it.
Imagine you were actually trying to convince pg to fund you after he said 'I think you'd be a better founder if you finished college first'. What would you tell him?
Oh dear. You heard the piper's tune and now nothing else matters. I wonder, does PG still program, or does he make money another way now. There's the clue.
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How do you know you're not wasting time? How did you convince yourself? once you have laid out the arguments you use on yourself - can you figure out why they don't work on your parents? For instance - are you assuming a higher likelihood of success for your startup than they are? Or an easier route back in to college if you get kicked out for failing? Do you know something they don't (or perhaps vice versa)? Do they think college is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and startup ideas will always be there, but you think the opposite? Or is it perhaps a conflict of principles, like you don't care if you do end up working in fast food so long as you gave the startup your best effort, and they think this would be a terrible failure of everything they ever wanted for you?
I got my current mindset after reading many books, articles, pg essays, talking to people and so on. When you become obsessed with something you suck in all the information about the subject out there. I wish I could just show them a 'memory dump' of my brain.
In other words: brainwashing.
That's what happened when you read similar books, followed like-minded people (and have an unhealthy obsession), do discussion with like-minded people or even steer the topic toward your own pont of view.
Be careful. You are living on your own bubble.
That's great, but if you can't literally write out explicit answers to each of my questions, and explicitly in sentences identify why your parents disagree with you, then you don't know what you're doing and you're just following the crowd. If you can't explain it, you don't know it.
Imagine you were actually trying to convince pg to fund you after he said 'I think you'd be a better founder if you finished college first'. What would you tell him?
"pg essays"
Oh dear. You heard the piper's tune and now nothing else matters. I wonder, does PG still program, or does he make money another way now. There's the clue.