Valuing Substance Over Status in Education

One of the resolutions I came up with a number of years ago

was to always value substance over status, substance

over prestige. And if I was giving my younger self

advice on what to do or how to think about one's life,

I probably would

still go to Stanford, might still go to law school,

but I'd ask a lot

more questions why I was doing these things.

I think if I was honest about it, too much of it was driven by,

by prestige and status, and not quite enough about

really the substance of, of trying to learn things.

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