No room for failure: How student debt impacts results
I was lucky: I managed to get through college with only a small amount of debt.
I was able to do this because I was fortunate enough to have middle-class parents, I attended a state school, I received scholarship help, and I got into a co-op program that helped me cover some of the costs.
At the time, I didn’t realize what this would allow me to do. I didn’t realize that it would allow me to take some risks I would never have been able to otherwise.
It allowed me to fail. Not just once, but numerous times. And failure, believe it or not, is critical to success.
This is why I want to talk about how student debt levels today are not only hurting students and recent graduates, but are hurting our businesses—and our country.
