School Yourself.
School is one thing, Education is another. The two don't always overlap. Whether you're in school or not, it's always your job to get yourself an education.
You have to be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else — that's how you'll get ahead.
Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don't ask a question before you Google it. You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.
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I try to practice this at all times. If there is one thing that I carry away from my time in college, it is that I realize I will never know everything. But, I have learned where to go to obtain the information that I need at any given time. This practice has helped me from feeling like a bonehead and asking an unnecessary question. I recently visited the Larry Kanfer Studios in Champaign and there was a beautiful photograph of an impressive and very recognizable structure. I wanted to guess that it was the Taj' Mahal, I wanted confirmation and was just milliseconds away from blurting the question to the people standing next to me observing the same image. I managed to choke my words back and get my phone out to google it for confirmation. I was right and I was not embarrassed. And actually, it did indeed prompt an even better question that I also managed to answer by searching the internet. It feels good to be self reliant.
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