I feel like we do academics wrong. We should encourage a large gap between undergrad and graduate school for two reasons. First, develop empathy for the realities of shipping software (or whatever the field is). Second, build some wealth to not chase wrong grants.
I take Arnold Schwarzenegger as an inspiration on this front. He did hard work and had some good fortune due to great timing (real-estate in California) to build up wealth before becoming an actor, and this manifested in the freedom to go all in on Acting.
The thing that I take as inspiring is that instead of chasing the money via that path or just chilling out, he went hard on a passion.
I feel like we do academics wrong. We should encourage a large gap between undergrad and graduate school for two reasons. First, develop empathy for the realities of shipping software (or whatever the field is). Second, build some wealth to not chase wrong grants.
I take Arnold Schwarzenegger as an inspiration on this front. He did hard work and had some good fortune due to great timing (real-estate in California) to build up wealth before becoming an actor, and this manifested in the freedom to go all in on Acting.
The thing that I take as inspiring is that instead of chasing the money via that path or just chilling out, he went hard on a passion.