“The career goals are quite large. I wish to be a CEO, followed by a life of politics after I have a huge nest in my late 40’s-50’s. The kind of people that I want to be are synonymous with the names of Carnegie, Ford, Rockefeller, Gates, Jobs, Vanderbilt, and Morgan. Now after doing research, it is clear that this is a career goal that requires much more than a piece of paper.”
This jumps out quite a bit. These people with whom you want to be synonymous all gained their success in a number of ways. However, the driving force behind their success was the fact that they had BIG and revolutionary ideas. Some of them were college dropouts…but they had an equal amount of education in all practical respects. What’s your big and revolutionary idea?
I looked at some of your other threads. You do not have a chance of getting accepted into Harvard, and I think you’re fully aware of that. Are you aware that there are hundreds of other wonderful universities in the US?
The main theme of your threads seems to be an unjustifiably high opinion of yourself, and a serious problem with authority. I can relate to the dislike for authority…but there’s a difference between questioning and evaluating the sources and validity of a perceived authority figure, and an outright obstinate and defiant approach to anything and everything resembling an authority figure. It is important to respect authority. I don’t mean this in the sense of always respecting the law for the simple reason that it’s the law. I mean respecting the authority of people that have far more experience and expertise than you do in a given subject. You could take any one of those people on your list - I bet they all had mentors and teachers that they respected due to their authority of a given topic.
Your career goals do require much more than a piece of paper…the key part of this being ‘much more than.’ This suggests that the piece of paper is typically a requirement. Sure, not all of those people had that piece of paper. That’s a fair point.
“Before people say there is a .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance of this happening, I say that those people above did it, therefore why can’t I?”
This is because those people were all part of the .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%. The majority of the people that spend their lives working as billionaire CEOs and retire from business to spend the rest of their career in politics are the type of people that are known as “the upper-upper class.” One cannot simply “become” part of the upper-upper class. This class is defined by the power, prestige, and name recognition. This is often derived from family names. The Kennedy’s, Bush’s, Rockefeller’s, Morgans, etc. When one is born into wealth, one has a far greater chance of success. I don’t mean wealth in terms of a dollar amount. I mean wealth in terms of real wealth - power, prestige, name recognition, political clout, and also financial wealth.
These people are all great leaders…but one of the primary characteristics of good leadership is also a respect for authority and an ability to follow orders. You claim to be a great leader…why? What leadership experience do you have that makes you think that CEO of a company is the ideal place for you? For what groups have you been a leader? You’re great at history? What does that have to do anything? You’re great at innovating? Tell us about some of your innovations.