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In re Creativity vs. MBAs, I'm kind of on the fence. I came to b-school a "creative" type and used to hate dealing with all the toolbag, buzzword-spouting, think-by-numbers MBAs I worked with in my pre-MBA life. But at the end of the day, all the creativity in the world is often meaningless without some "hard skills" to filter it through. I'd hand money to a team of MBAs starting up a business much more readily than I'd hand it over to a creative genius with no business training or analytical background, for instance. Actually, better yet, I'd want someone with both skill sets. Or at least a balanced team of people with different skill sets.
The one thing you really gain an appreciation for in business school case studies is just how true the old "Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration" line is. Successful creativity is as much about execution/application as it is about vision.
Though I'll likely come out of b-school unemployed (thanks, economy!), I really do feel like a better and more well-rounded person for it.
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You do this by reading case studies about people who hold other graduate degrees: law, medicine, economics, etc. Last week, for instance, we read a case study that informed us that the typical orthodontist makes anywhere from $250k to $1M a year while working three days a week and 8 hours per day. "Well, fuck" was basically the collective response from all the little wannabe bankers in the class. Also a plus: the entire orthodontics industry didn't, like, collapse recently.
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If this works out, I'm creating my own law school. You are all invited to come spend 8 hours a day working on my projects. I will be training you for a real legal practice, not this nonsense law school teaches. As such, there will be no time to work on your own silly projects and there will be no time for living, noticing connecting or being. There will be no letter of reccomendation as I will be taking full credit for your work. But you can have all the office supplies you can carry out in one, modertly baggy, hoodie.
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Also, I will be teaching classes in cowardace.
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Not after I take my copy to Kinko's and start selling them on Ebay.