
Steve Jobs was a college dropout, the Reed College website says one of the most valuable dropout in the history of the world! Okay, you have heard of some great colleges in America, kinda the top ones - MIT, HarVard, StanFord and others, why did Jobs choose Reed and why he couldnt complete his stay there?
Entry to any great college requires you to give a test, mostly a combination of Multi-Choice Questions and Subjective ones but we have seen the MCQ portion of the test truly defines your chances of entering the institution of your choice! Now, for those who are this new age know how MCQs work and how its an art, right? I will say doing well in some MCQ test at Top level might be a showcase of your intellect or skills you have gained in test taking but but but... Its very Unvisionary to qualify a test like that! Someone who is a real visionary will hardly come close to the right option until he knows the answer well.
Heres why - A visionary is illogical to the reality, in context of steve we call this a reality distortion field where we start thinking of a solution to the problem that is highly idealistic yet far from reality, but this field makes you think at the same time that your solution is the best and very much doable! It sunconsciously convinces you of the far truth and you tick one of the options the examiner must have put there for duffers! It might work also sometimes but mostly, by personal admission, it doesnt work! You perform worse than an average lad even with superior knowledge.
Can you relate? I mean there are these people who guess and their guesses are 9 out of 10 times wrong, even reading the solution part makes them feel they were still right!
SO yeah a visionary isnt a test material particularly the MCQ or quiz one. SO thats the reason why steve went to reed and yet, came out of it so early! Reed might say the experience jobs had were due to reed but the reality is it wasnt reeds education that helped the man anyday, it was what he mentions in the vollum award speech from 1991, ADVERSITIES!
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