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New College Majors We Think Should Replace Current Ones

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0:00 What what's the major you think should be in a college? >> Uh faf to find out >> free time. >> And what major what major should that replace that you don't think is the >> create a college major for today's students to benefit from that doesn't yet exist. >> Ooh, >> I have no idea what doesn't exist today though. >> Minister of AI >> as a major. >> I don't know. something to do with AI >> like artificial intelligence engineer or something like that >> propaganda >> social media marketing >> propaganda as a major >> that exists social media >> or marketing probably but it's probably part of it >> under yeah social media would be the >> that's one thing I don't understand >> under marketing >> how do universities with marketing

0:51 departments keep up with how fast it changes >> right >> they don't >> they don't that's why they suck >> because they they have to just you keep selling the same textbooks that are outdated. >> Yeah, that's what I'm saying. By the time that thing's in print, it's not even >> relevant, right? >> Mhm. >> Real estate major. >> I I would I would probably have a life major. >> Just life >> life major. Like >> like homeck. >> No, like stuff that teaches you in between the lines that like So, for example, you know, for like uh like real estate, they have like the 30% rule where like your your mortgage shouldn't be more than 30% of what you make. Like there's just these numbers that once you're in the industry, you're like, "Oh, like yeah, there's rules of thumb for everything, but when you first get into it, you don't even know." Like there's a rule of thumb for how much your car payment should be compared to how much you make. There's all these things, but you don't know, you know, until you go there and you're like, "Oh, I probably I probably need that M3." And

1:41 then you spend your whole paycheck on there and you have to learn the hard way and you're like, "Oh, I had to get that thing repoed because um I didn't know that if you made $1,000, you can't spend $800 on a car payment." But you have to do you have to do dumb things to learn. >> What kind What job would that lead to though as a major? >> I think you can literally go into anything after. So like something that teaches you like what taxes are for, what 401k is for, um like how to set up a LLC, like ████ like that. just all all like just basic infrastructure for your brain to go into this world and then now you can go do something and apply it. >> That almost sounds like it could just fit into an actually good version of a business major. >> Oh maybe. Yeah. >> But but I understand if the the life version of it though >> because there is a difference in in just

2:31 straight business >> like when do you need a will? No one knows that ████ When do you need to do this? When do you need to do that? like all that kind of >> which actually sounds like almost like really good mandatory GE courses for your first two years. >> That's nice if it was a G mandatory GE that >> you don't know you don't know how to do any of those things, you know. >> But then but then isn't that tough to find a teacher that does >> cuz the teachers don't know ████ either. That's what I'm saying. >> Well, you could in a college mandatory GE setting with multiple courses, you could find a teacher that's good at one sector of that and then you have to elect to take those courses. Mhm. >> So, somebody's really good at like wills, trusts, like in living, you know what I mean? But then somebody else is really good with like real estate and stuff, but then you because it's general uh ed classes, you have to take a variety or an assortment of those things to qualify to like choose your major. >> Yeah. >> Or the teachers brings in guest speakers

3:21 every week. >> This guy got sued for everything you owned. >> How can we avoid that? >> Personal development stuff, you know, like you how you take accountability for your own ████ like that kind of stuff. just all life, your your mindset, not being a victim, just like all that. >> Imagine that if like there's an accounting major and an accountability major. >> Yeah, dude. Like that. Exactly. >> And then and then they're confused cuz they're like, "When are we going to learn accounting?" And they're like, "This is accountability." Ah, ████ >> Yeah. Why do you keep asking me questions about my past and ████ >> What about jiu-jitsu? Could that be a uh college major? >> I actually think a things like a martial arts major could be dope. >> Just like basic self-defense. It's like you should be teaching meds freaking everywhere or just like like I know they teach health but I feel like it's it's like what you guys are saying it's like super outdated. >> So things that like some people like I

4:11 don't know how many people were exposed to like a general ed nutrition course like throughout their 2 years like did you guys do a nutrition course in >> Nope. >> Nutrition? ████ no. And and what I think they should do for the all nutrition courses, >> if they have it, actually be your own test subject. Everyone actually lab track it. Lose 10 lbs. Whether you need it or not, it's not going to kill you. >> Lose 10 lbs. So you've done it before together as a class. Yeah. And then at the end of the quarter, did you lose the 10 lbs? Get a DEXA scan, whatever. Now everyone has the tools to be able to do it. >> True. >> I think there's a lot of actual courses, but it's not mandatory. So, like not everyone gets the benefit of the other because like I remember in high school, you know, when you take classes that are just like left over, >> I took one that was called conflict resolution. >> That's a good one. >> Interpersonal.

5:01 >> And I didn't know what that meant until I was like way older and I I still didn't get the point of the class while I was in the class. >> How did it go? How' the class how was it taught? >> We talked a lot about like life and I just thought it was a ████ class that you just burned time in. was stupid. Yeah. Wow. But uh there were guys in there that were like they were a part of these like players club and they would throw a party and they had all these like jackets and like these letterman jackets. But I think like it was like how many girl friends they had and whatever and I was just like they were telling me about their like group and their club and I was like dude this is so different. Like I was like I'm I'm a part of the graffiti community and then like we're talking about how what we do and ████ and then like >> and it was a our teacher just seemed like we were just telling stories and asking us questions and I think there was actual curriculum but I was too

5:52 stupid back then and probably like not paying attention. >> H >> yeah but it was like a self-help class. >> Interesting. That almost seems like something you get put in because you got in trouble >> probably. But no I came in later in the year. So it's like I came like mid what do you call it like I wasn't semester >> yeah I wasn't a part of when everyone started so they're just throwing me in classes and >> ████ and everyone's already locked into their groups and ████ and you're just you're the odd one out is that you came in midway because you got kicked out >> I just didn't go to school so my mom put me in >> Oh >> so you came in midway because you didn't go to the first part >> I didn't Yeah I started from like mid 9th grade or something like that. >> Okay. >> Yeah cuz I got kicked out of seventh or eighth. I didn't graduate and then high school I was like I think I want to go. >> M okay. >> I I don't know where this would fall. It's it feels more like a life version but not for business but for like econ.

6:43 >> Yeah. like where you could major in understanding things like uh investments, stock markets, uh cryptocurrency, day trading, options and futures, perpetuals, like everything that has to do with like financial investing, Roth IAS, retirement funds, traditional, like everything in that sector because I feel like everybody's supposed to be able to understand and use it, but it feels like the thing that doesn't specifically get taught unless you maybe there's a specific elective, but it's not something that you can major Yet that's a lot of people's careers in a sense. A lot of people are career traders. >> That is true. >> A lot of people like spend their career to build that version of their life. >> Yeah. >> But then you learn late if you don't like learn it somewhere formally. >> That's very hard to even find relevance with especially at the time. Like if I

7:33 was learning that when I was in high school or even early college, I just wasn't making money that I could have applied to these ideas. So I couldn't even picture them. I was like, "Okay, yeah, I get it. you put money thing and goes up. I'm still at the get money part. Like I don't even have a dollar. So it's like if people were teaching me that I don't know how I like how could you receive that info. >> You got to make it relatable. >> Yeah. Like how do you hang on to it knowing that like you're missing the first step? >> So the way my mom taught me that helped me was she just says, "I'mma beat your ass unless you save half of your ████ no matter what I did." So that didn't really help me that much, but that was such a rule that it helped me as soon as I started making money. But I think a way to teach it would be like um I think a lot of it needs to be through labs actually. So if you guys like yeah like let's say you guys take these kids and this is going to be a class take like 20 kids.

8:23 >> All right everybody something that grows fast maybe like cherry tomatoes or something everyone we're going to grow 20 cherry tomatoes. Um, you can eat them, you can pluck them, or you can take these tomatoes and plant more tomato trees. >> And then we're going to let you know that in about 3 weeks, we're not going to grow any more tomatoes, and you have to keep surviving to see if uh how how long you live. >> So, the guys who were able to take the tomatoes and freeze them, like that was your retirement. So, you knew from day one when you had two or three tomatoes, you you ate one and you save one. The ones that are like, "A ████ I'm just going to start chowing down all these tomatoes," you don't have anything in retirement. to kind of like give like like um you have to show how primal the idea is before you start labeling with all these crazy >> that's true lab sounds like a great idea if you were playing with fake money >> for the year >> cuz what sucks is like like my cousin he spent all this time becoming a doctor

9:13 right >> and then he and once he became a doctor he goes check this out they gave me like three different 401k plans like what should I do and I'm like oh ████ like he has he he has the money to invest now, but most people don't even know what to do. And these are just foreign terms to them now. >> But it's so important to do because you're only going to be able body for so long. >> You know, by the time you're like like technically you need to work up all the money you made that you worked up to like 50 or 60, you have to make enough to live then, but then also to live 60 to 100 or whatever, right? But most people aren't thinking like that. And it's like you got to like teach that somehow, which is really hard. >> Yeah, it is really hard. It it's hard. And then most people will grow up and be like, "Why didn't I learn that before?" Or most people be like, "How come no one told me?" But it's like it was always there. It's just like hard

10:04 to receive it. >> Hard to receive, man. >> Really hard. Okay. What um what what's the major you think should be in a college? >> Uh faf. >> ████ around and find out. >> ████ around. >> And what major? What major should that replace that you don't think is necessary? >> Theater. Okay, good. >> I like I like ████ around and find out. That's a pretty good major >> as a replacement for theater. You go in thinking it's theater. What is this? What's baffo? >> What's What's the main lesson? >> Welcome to FAFO. >> Yeah. What's lesson one look like? >> Uh pretty much science. >> I just bust in the room and just >> what does the teacher say? >> It's a two thing balancing, right? You take one off, bang, the other side goes down. >> Oh, so it's a demonstration. >> So gravity. We're going to learn the the the science term. Uh uh you know what I'm saying? So >> the science term.

10:54 No, >> all I'm saying is there's going to be a reaction to your action >> and satisfaction. >> Satisfaction depending on your morals. >> Suben's like Sub's like, "This is our lab, guys. Everybody come out. We're in the parking lot." Okay, watch. Spit on my cart. You see that? >> Action. Reaction. >> Exactly. >> Satisfaction.

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