--- title: "4 Advice Smart Quotes by 1 author" description: "Browse 4 Advice Smart quotes by 1 author. Discover the best Advice Smart sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea0/timothy-ferriss-973_closest-friends_what-advice-would-you-give-to-a-smart-dr_450767.jpg" --- > [“What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? What advice should they ignore?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-ferriss/what-advice-would-you-give-to-a-smart-driven-college-student-about-to-3/) [Timothy Ferriss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-ferriss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea0/timothy-ferriss-973_closest-friends_what-advice-would-you-give-to-a-smart-dr_450767.jpg) > [“What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? 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What advice should they ignore?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-ferriss/what-advice-would-you-give-to-a-smart-driven-college-student-about-to-8/) [Timothy Ferriss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-ferriss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a5/timothy-ferriss-973_advice_what-advice-would-you-give-to-a-smart-dr_2331301.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/advice-smart/#itemlist", "name": "Advice Smart Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? What advice should they ignore? I thought about this a lot when I gave the commencement address at MIT back in 2013. I said that if I had a cheat sheet I could give myself at 22, it would have three things on it: a tennis ball, a circle, and the number 30,000. The tennis ball is about finding something that you can become obsessed with, like my childhood dog who would go crazy whenever anyone threw a ball for her. The most successful people I know are all obsessed with solving a problem that really matters to them. The circle refers to the idea that you’re the average of your five closest friends. Make sure to put yourself in an environment that pulls the best out of you. And the last is the number 30,000. When I was 24, I came across a website that says most people live for about 30,000 days—and I was shocked to find that I was already 8,000 days down. So you have to make every day count. I’d give the same advice today, but I would clarify that it’s not just about passion or following your dreams. 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Ignore the unfairness—there is no fair. Play the hand that you’re dealt to the best of your ability. People are highly consistent, so you will eventually get what you deserve and so will they. In the end, everyone gets the same judgment: death.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Timothy Ferriss" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-ferriss/what-advice-would-you-give-to-a-smart-driven-college-student-about-to-5/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/555/timothy-ferriss-973_college-student_what-advice-would-you-give-to-a-smart-dr_1075927.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/555/timothy-ferriss-973_college-student_what-advice-would-you-give-to-a-smart-dr_1075927.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/555/timothy-ferriss-973_college-student_what-advice-would-you-give-to-a-smart-dr_1075927.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? 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Ignore the advice to specialize in one thing, unless you’re certain that’s how you want to roll. Ignore giving a shit about what other people think about your career choices or what you do for a living—especially if what you do for a living funds your career choices. Ignore the impulse to dial down your enthusiasm for fear it’ll be perceived as unprofessional. 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But the best things that ever happened to me came during the times when the shit hit the fan and I had nothing and nobody to help me. Who are you really? What do you really want? Get out there and fail and find out.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Timothy Ferriss" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-ferriss/what-advice-would-you-give-to-a-smart-driven-college-student-about-to-8/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a5/timothy-ferriss-973_advice_what-advice-would-you-give-to-a-smart-dr_2331301.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a5/timothy-ferriss-973_advice_what-advice-would-you-give-to-a-smart-dr_2331301.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a5/timothy-ferriss-973_advice_what-advice-would-you-give-to-a-smart-dr_2331301.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? 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