I was recently talking to a friend doing his PhD in China. He said almost everyone in his department graduates late and only one or two top students finish on time. I kept urging him to graduate sooner and get to work, because finishing early seemed perfectly normal to me. I’d done it myself, compressing my degree so much that in my final year as an undergraduate, I went to pay for about 24 credits’ worth of courses I was taking ahead of schedule. The guys in line ahead of me were paying to retake courses they’d failed. I remember them muttering in astonishment, “Holy shit, that’s a lot of classes to retake.”
In today’s story, Derek Sivers finishes his undergraduate degree at Berklee College of Music in two and a half years. Yes, that’s where Wang Leehom graduated too. Afterward, it was as if someone had switched on a cheat code for Sivers’s life. It all began with a chance meeting with Kimo Williams, the owner of a music shop. Kimo told him that the academic schedule was designed so most people could finish their studies and that particularly driven students could move faster.
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Original story There’s no speed limit | Derek Sivers