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16: Sidestepping College to Pursue Your Interests with Josh Lilien
Category: Education
Duration: 00:41:27
Publish Date: 2017-07-27 05:00:00
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“Study something where you approach problems in different and interesting ways.” - Josh Lilien

In this episode of Nat Chat, I’m joined by Josh Lilien. Josh reached out to me after I started the podcast, sharing a few ideas of his own for how students can hack college, work on their own projects, and learn outside the classroom. After a few emails, I heard more about his story and wanted to bring him on the show.

We covered a lot in this episode, including:

  • Self-educating yourself when traditional education isn’t useful
  • How to land an apprenticeship to obtain necessary skills
  • Minimizing the time you spend in class to devote to other projects
  • Harnessing the pressure of needing a good GPA to pursue difficult subjects
  • Book recommendations from Josh to others interested in similar work

Please enjoy, and reach out to Josh on Twitter!

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1:08 - Introduction to Josh and him detailing his education path.

8:26 - Josh explaining how he got started with marketing, how he learned the skills for his job and the resources that helped him out the most.

13:17 - Josh detailing the issues with marketing education and how he was mainly self-taught.

17:04 - Utilizing the pressure of needing a good GPA to assist you in learning more difficult subjects and how you can reverse engineer your exams to minimize your time spent in class.

24:29 - Josh on learning paid ad positioning and him discussing what he is currently working on.

30:38 - Josh discussing his parent’s feelings regarding him pursuing his startup and following a non-traditional career path.

35:15 - Some books that were crucial for Josh’s success.

37:11 - Josh speaking on his positive experience with networking and his advice for others looking to pursue similar types of work.

40:00 - Wrap up and where to find Josh online.

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