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There's a huge opportunity cost spending 4.5 years of your life and £40k to get a higher level degree, especially when you believe it's you procastinating.
Stop thinking you have to go "all-in" on the fastlane. Just start small, but start soon. Can you start this week even?
I agree for sure. Well, let's run it back for some clarity. I read the book in 2010, nearly failed out of undergrad in 2011 as I skipped 3 finals as I was almost super convinced that I was going to go fastlane and skip college. Stuck it out, graduated undergrad in 2014. My last W2 / "job" was in 2016. Had a couple of rough years but grinded it out.
Fast forward to today. Going into my third straight 6-figure year. Should grow revenue by 50% even though I just did a Master's & the cert during this time. A lot of this is hands-off / semi-passive, retainers, etc. other is more active (think fractional CMO type). Should be all wrapped up with both of those, and my interns should be done with the 6 week program I created by mid July, so that will free up some time.
I've run through hundreds of bad ideas over the years. I have a couple that I think are pretty good now, and need to go heads down on them. This is the "all-in" I'm referring to, but it's more that I don't want to cut back on everything else, but need to create dedicated time & clarity each week to work on them; really carving out a block of time to move them forward. And, while I feel like I'm at a high level with AI, I've definitely fallen behind in terms of creating/using agentic AI, automating stuff, etc. which all pushes the needle more towards fastlane.
So it is not procrastination so to speak but I guess being on the edge of the next level: it's hard to work on a good idea when you can click a button and start billing for $100+/hour. The DBA is probably more procrastinating taking the next step... I guess this is where hiring comes in?
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