SFR 160: My Greatest Asset (+College Transcript)...

Boom, what's going on everyone? This is Steve Larsen. This is Sales Funnel Radio, and today I'm gonna talk about my greatest asset and my college transcript.

 

What's up, guys? Hey, today's a little bit different.

 

First off, I wanna apologize. The last few episodes that went out, we found out the mic on the camera was busted, and so that's kinda why they sounded a little bit weird.

 

Thankfully my super-ninja sound dude was able to take out a lot of the stuff, but we apologize for that. He's the man. You guys'll all get to meet him another time when we all feature our content team again.

 

But, what I wanted to do, this episode's a little bit different, and you'll notice it's a little bit longer, but what I wanted to do is...

 

 I did a Facebook Live to my group, and it's a little long but the lessons are huge, and it frankly is how I went from completely failing out of college; I had no idea how to learn. Did not know, right? I really didn't know how to learn. Even into my early 20s, I had to figure out how to learn.

 

In fact, the first thing I show you is my college transcript  - you'll see the huge difference between when I learned how to learn, and when I had no idea how to learn. And how that's blessed me in my life and frankly, everything else that I do.

 

Anyway, so it's a little bit of a different episode. We're going to cut over to it now. It's the recording from me in my group The Science of Selling Online. And so, we're going to cut straight over to that.

 

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The group itself had a great discussion about it afterward, and by the time I was done over 900 people had already watched it. And then a few hours later it was 1500.  It's been really, really cool.

 

There's some real talk, please go in with some thick skin. If you are easily offended, maybe don't watch this one. But anyway, let's cut over to it now and I'll see you in that episode.

 

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Hey, I just want to share with you guys probably one of the most important assets that I've ever created. It's something that took me, probably, two years to develop. Um, of actively trying to do it, okay? And I want to show you this real quick though, hold on, let me; just pulling it up right here so you guys can see it.

 

I want to walk you through what I've done and why it means so much to me. And frankly, I know it's one of the major reasons why I am where I am right now. And it's because the lesson was so painful, okay? So let me share this with you guys...

 

Alright. Okay, check this out. I went through, and I found my college transcript. It's not like anyone has asked me for it, ever. Russell certainly didn't care. But I'm glad for what it taught me.

 

I'll never, ever regret going to college. Although, I you don't learn how to learn. You don't learn how to make money in college, right? But I'm glad I went.

 

Check this out. I'm gonna show you my transcript, okay? And I'm going to show you something. This is funny...

 

I graduated from college when I was 28. Right, and it's because I did like a two-year mission for my church; I took, frankly, a year and a half off. This was before I knew what I wanted to do. Before I tried enough things to know what I wanted to do. Right?

 

I took a couple of semesters for army stuff. You know, going to basic training and a whole bunch of things.  So it was a long time, okay? Much longer than normal people usually take to get through college, but I mean I had a family. We had kids; we had a different scenario and everything.

 

Anyway, check this out. Okay, I'm going to show you my transcript. No one laugh, but totally feel free to because I'm going to.

 

Let me make sure you guys can see this. Look at that first semester right there. D plus, A, F, F, F, F. That's the first semester. Okay, check that out.

 

I got an A in Apartment Leadership because it was a two-hour thing. I just sat down and did it one day, when I realized how screwed I was at the end of the semester. My GPA was literally .00017, okay?

 

I had no idea how to learn. I actually got kicked out of college. I got kicked out - and frankly, you have to go to class to stay in it. That's kinda funny.  I kinda stopped going to class about halfway through. But the issue was; I didn't know how to learn. Okay?

 

I had no idea how to learn, I didn't know the process it. I  barely graduated high school, okay. I'm not just saying that; I got straight D's in science every semester; in math, every semester; in English. I certainly did in foreign languages. Spanish, straight Ds.  And half of it was just because I didn't know how to learn. Right?

 

I was always interested, and at parent-teacher conferences, it would be like, "Your son seems really, really interested in this, he just hasn't applied himself." And that's what they said every freaking parent-teacher conference - from when I was in the fourth grade all the way through!

Until I finally went to college and removed my parents from the notifications list for the school. I didn't know how to learn.

 

The thing that I went and I figured out was, "how to learn." So  I thought it would be kinda cool to share my process for learning with you. Cause there's a process, and it's active.

 

Let me share with you guys the difference though... So I ended up having to apply for college again four years later. Okay, four years later, I went and said, "let's go finish this thing; I gotta figure out how to do this."

 

I did not learn how to make money in college. I did not learn how to be a marketer, even though I have a marketing degree - which is really funny. I didn't learn how to do any of that stuff in college. It was all my own side hustles going on, you know. I had actual clients going on, on the side.

 

But anyways, let me show you this. Okay, check this out. Alright, so that's the semester that I got kicked out, okay?

 

Then check out that row right there. A, B, A, A, A, A, A, A, B. A, A, A, A, A, A. B, B, B, A, A, A, A, A. A, A, A, A, A. I didn't get a single C the rest of the four and a half years that I was in college. Straight A's, a few B's here and there. Ended up with a 3.83.818, okay? That's crazy, that's crazy. And the difference was that I learned how to learn.

 

This was such a powerful lesson to me.  I remember where I was. I was over on the east coast, living in North Carolina.  I was on a mission, and I started learning how to learn.

 

I completely believe that God had every bit to do with it, okay? For some reason, kinda opened and expanded...