I’m at a 3-day business and marketing seminar this week. It’s expensive, so much so that I had my reservations about enrolling. So I’m going to do my part to make sure the money is worth it for me. Before I left, I thought about what I wanted to learn and take away from it. When Arun and I met to talk about our projects for next year, I kept a list of marketing questions that came up for me that I’ll bring with me to the course. And I know that dollar amount will keep me paying attention even if I start to get tired by the third day.
When you’re spending a lot of money to do something, you do whatever you have to do to make it worth your while. You don’t leave all of that in someone else’s hands. I have a friend who did the math to figure out how much more money his expensive private college was costing his parents than the public school he’d been admitted to with a scholarship would have. In four years of college, he never once missed a class and never got any grade lower than an “A.”
If you were paying $1,000 a day to attend your high school classes, would you be doing anything differently?