A weird trend I’ve been observing these days. Everyone’s flexing their degrees & designation.
Even the sorts of big Youtubers. With >1 crore subscribers are putting their degrees & past designations in their bio. I mean who cares about your degrees & past designations when you are a big vlogger getting billions of views…
Degrees are good. But they shouldn’t define you. You’re bigger than your degrees, certifications or designation.
How much value you provide is what matters. Not degrees or certificates.
This I’m saying despite me holding the highest & ‘toughest’ Finance Degree of India.
Let me be very clear. I’m not against education. Getting the Formal Education is good & necessary to a certain extent. Though it’s not ‘necessary’ to have degrees in order to succeed in life.
I think degree is a social construct. Meant to gain validation from the society.
If you need external validation, good for you.
There are countless people who made it big without having the so called ‘degrees’.
Imagine if Sachin’s mother would have forced him to become a doctor. He wouldn’t have been a great cricketer.
Imagine if Narendra Modi’s mother would have forced him to get that engineering degree. He wouldn’t be contesting for the 3rd time as Prime Minister in the largest democracy of the world!
It is not degree. It is the skills & how much value you bring on the table that matters the most.
I sincerely wish everyone gets out of the rotten mindset of degrees & certifications and start respecting people for the skills they posses.
