文章探讨了工作和创业两种选择，以及自驱力在其中的作用。作者认为，如果一个人每天能投入8小时在自己的事业上，那么他所获得的收益可能会远高于在学校或公司工作。然而，大多数人选择工作是因为他们缺乏自律和自我激励的能力，需要外部压力来保持生产力。对于那些具备高度自驱力的人来说，创业可能是一个更明智的选择，可以避免在传统的升学就业道路上浪费大量时间，并获得更大的财务回报。文章并非反对工作或上学，而是强调个人应根据自身情况和自驱力水平做出最适合自己的选择。

💪 自驱力是选择的关键：文章的核心观点是，自驱力是决定一个人应该选择工作还是创业的关键因素。缺乏自驱力的人更适合在学校或公司的框架下工作，而具备高度自驱力的人则更适合创业。

⏰ 时间投入与回报：作者指出，如果一个人能将花在学习或工作上的相同时间投入到创业中，他可能会获得更高的回报。这强调了创业的潜在财务收益，但也突出了创业所需的时间和精力投入。

🔄 传统路径的替代方案：文章挑战了传统的“上大学找好工作”的路径，认为对于有自驱力的人来说，创业可能是一个更有效的替代方案。这鼓励人们重新评估自己的选择，并考虑创业的可能性。

Published on May 20, 2025 3:15 AM GMT

In majority of cases, obviously ignoring exceptions as "exceptions don't make the rule" + I'm financially speaking

If someone were to tell you that he spends 8 hours a day working on his business a day, you would consider him to be highly agentic

But if someone tells you he spends 8 hours at school or working you would think that to be the bare minimum which billions of people do daily.

The work load is the same, and it's clear that if you can spend the same amount of time people spend on school/work on a business, you'd make substantially more than you would otherwise.

So why does everyone pick the 8 hours at school/work route?

Because the majority of people can't self motivate themselves and need pressure from their schools or their job to be productive.

But if your not like that, and don't need a boss or school to get you to spend 8 hours working, than working or going to school would be quite an idiotic pursuit as anyone with a work ethic like that would make way more money creating a business than they would by:

Chasing a IVY-League admission by taking a ridiculous amount of AP classes, working on obtaining great extracurricular activities that look good on an application, working hard to get a 1550+ on SAT, proceeded by spending 4 years at university, and solving hundreds of Leetcode questions,  getting internships at companies, just to make maybe 100K out of university. 

Don't you think someone would have a way greater financial outcome if he were to spend that time on creating a business?

Maybe you disagree, maybe you don't. But nevertheless, this isn't necessarily an argument against going to school/work. As I believe that it would take a man with quite high self-will to spend the same effort that he spends on what I listed above on a business as self-motivating is much harder than getting the motivation from their school/job, despite the striking reward difference.

That's why "go to college and get a good job" is actually good advice for the majority, as the majority simply are too lazy to be productive unless otherwise pressured to be productive by school & work.

But if you're not the majority, the optimal move would be to start a business instead of wasting immense time in the highschool>college>job cycle.

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