Yesterday Danyal, who's 11, finished his A-levels, which are typically taken by 18-year-olds.
He taught himself Mathematics mainly from YouTube videos. Last year he did his Physics A-level and got an A.
He taught himself Mathematics mainly from YouTube videos. Last year he did his Physics A-level and got an A.
He’s homeschooled.
This morning we went for a run and discussed what he might do next with his life.
He’s thinking about a combination of:
- Play football up to 3 hours a day to see if he has a realistic chance of playing in the Premiership one day.
- Try to get his squash to national-level.
- Try to break the world record for 5km for an 11-year-old - he’d have to go damn intensive as he’ll turn 12 in 4 months.
- Become damn good at coding - to start a tech startup.
- Brush up his 6 languages - some have been very low priority in recent months due to exams.
- Spend a lot of time loafing around with friends.
All possible because my wife and I just decided to TRY to homeschool our 3 kids 5 years ago. We just gave it a two-week trial after which all of us loved it.
If we hadn’t tried Danyal would still be learning algebra at school and I’d have no story to tell you.
To succeed in life you need to try. Trying usually gets you nowhere but if you keep at it, you keep trying in all aspects of your life, it will make you succeed in ways you never imagined possible.
To succeed in life you need to try. Trying usually gets you nowhere but if you keep at it, you keep trying in all aspects of your life, it will make you succeed in ways you never imagined possible.
-Asim Qureshi, Masters in Physics from University of Oxford, Former Investment Banker Now Entrepreneur
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