The Chatham school system is one of the best in New Jersey. The education that I received there was top notch and that showed when I went to college. I did fairly well going through grade school. I was not the smartest kid, but certainly not the one with the lowest grades.

When I got to high school, my motivation dropped considerably and my grades showed it. Now that I am older, I wish that I had done better in high school, as it is the core and their that you learn the most basic concepts that you need to learn to get through life.

I am probably not a good role model for the way to handle education. I only did one year of college before I decided that my calling was racing. As I am sure you have heard before, “College is not for everyone.” But education is!

When I left college, I quickly realized that it was still important to educate myself in some way, shape or form. I was losing ground and things were not really progressing in my life. I felt that I needed to learn about something…anything to keep myself progressing. Obviously, racing was the first thing I turned to and I started studying the history of racing and former driver’s careers and so on.

This quickly turned into studying “real” history and historical figures like Benjamin Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt. I also started studying psychology, economics, business, marketing, sponsorship and promotion and also military history. What I had realized was that if I applied what I was learning to racing terms, then I would pick up the concepts much quicker. This was why college was not for me. I do not like to learn about things that I am not interested in. For example, I took Latin for two years and got a 60.9% average over the two years. Other subjects I did really well in because I was interested.

To this day, the most important things that I studied were the lives of important people in history. People like Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Roosevelt, Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger (Read more about them) Also, things like the psychology of misjudgment and rationality were things that I wish I had learned back in high school.

Just remember that education is continuous. Education does not stop just because school has stopped. Please remember that I encourage people to stay in school. Dropping out of grade school or high school would have to be the most foolish thing that could be done as a kid.