Throughout this post, Academic excellence will be AE while Real-life success will be RS, this RS will be a synonym of financial freedom, FF.

Academic excellence is desirable but more desirable is success in real life. We have all agreed that AE does not always translate to RS or FF. I want to point out just one reason why this is so.

In my part of the world, most highly educated individuals have found it impossible to venture into small businesses with prospect. They go about searching for white collar jobs that are either low paying or non-existent or both.

Many are teaching in private schools collecting salaries that cannot even feed them because they have the ability to teach the subject matter. Those without academic capability will never do such because they lack the requisite knowledge, instead they venture into businesses mostly at the small scale level.

In few years, the small scale business owner may now be the chairman of a conglomerate while his friend with AE continues earning meagre salary.

Academically sound individuals tend to want to make a living with their certificates while the other set of people make a living from other means. Great riches come from business but certificates cannot guarantee great riches.

The people in the AE quadrant will teach the children of those in the RS quadrant still collecting rediculous wages and pay. If you truly seek financial freedom, look beyond your certificates.

I have said AE is desirable, but more desirable is FF. I am still searching for that billionaire, yes the billionaire that made all her billions in the academic world.

...to be continued. Thank you for reading.