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5 LESSONS You Learn From Going To College.

Henry Johnson LR
2 min readJul 12, 2022
  1. Your SUCCESS entirely depends on your GRIND.

The most prominent lesson college will teach you is that you’re fully responsible for your destiny and what happens to you. Your success almost depends entirely on you, not others giving you handouts.

2. Taking charge of your own learning is essential.

Life is a learning process. You are not too educated to be schooled by those who didn’t acquire your degree. No man knows it all or is a guru at everything. Learning when to speak is very important. Silence is KING. In silence, you learn to achieve greatness. Attending College and earning a degree doesn’t make a well-learned person more than those who didn’t. Life is an imbalance of 10% of the things we know and 90% of what we don’t. You are not too educated to learn from everyone.

3. Being a FREE-THINKER — navigating challenging conversations.

Attending College should teach you to think for yourself and value others’ beliefs even when disagreeing. But, do too many people do this? Well, that’s up to you to answer the query. College is filled with interactions with people with beliefs that are unlike yours, such as educators, classmates, etc. However, those interactions should prepare you for the real world and help shape your communication skills with others, from pleasant…

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Henry Johnson LR
Henry Johnson LR

Written by Henry Johnson LR

I am a Liberian-born American writer with great ideas to impact lives and leave this world a little better than I found it.

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