Chris Adonis is trying to better himself.
During a recent appearance on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet, Chris Adonis shared that he recently went back to school. Adonis (aka Chris Masters) said that he never finished school because he tried to pursue his career first, but stresses the importance of sticking with school and graduating first.
“So my whole goal when I was around, we’re talking about that time when I was like 16 to 18 was, I knew what I wanted to do, and I just wanted to get there as young as possible. And I did that. So I feel like there’s a lot of value though when I talk to kids now, I will tell them, let’s say you do want to be a wrestler and you don’t see any use for school now,” Adonis explained. “But the thing is, whether you’re going to use that history class or literature. In school, you pick up life skills that you need to carry on into your adult life in your profession. So yeah, you might not specifically need certain things, but you are still acquiring tools, so I tell the kids that’s great if you know you want to do. That’s one of the greatest things ever because it’s hard if you don’t. But don’t fast-track it. Go finish school, go do whatever you need to.
“I’m not necessarily saying you have to go to college, but in my case, I didn’t even finish high school. Once I got to the 10th to the 11th grade, I knew 100% I wanted to wrestle. I started working a job so I just didn’t prioritize school and it just got to the point where it didn’t even make sense going, you know what I mean? But I’m happy to say now, I tell kids, do that, because then you can always go into whatever you want right after. There’s not a big rush.”
Adonis decided to go back to school when was staying with his father in Michigan during the pandemic. He said he wasn’t doing it to try and get a job as others might, but there were other life skills he wanted to test himself on.
“It might not translate to a job for me but hey, why not learn history? Hey, why not improve literature? Hey, why not? See if you can pass a math class, which I was able to do all those and it was like it was really a great confidence booster for me because I hadn’t been in any kind of educating circumstances in what 20 years outside of like wrestling and critiquing wrestling and psychology and wrestling and all that kind of stuff. So, for me, it almost felt like man, do I even have the attention span to get through a math class and pass it, and I did. So that was amazing.”
Adonis noted that he’s not trying to get a college degree and really resumed his education to be productive and just better himself.
“No, I was literally, we were in the pandemic. And everybody handled the pandemic differently. You know what I mean? It was a tough time for all of us. But for me, the first few months were very tough. Because you have no money coming in, especially as an independent contractor. I went through a breakup with my girlfriend,” Adonis explained, “and I just started thinking of like, what can I do productive in this time to better myself. My ex-girlfriend had always stressed growing as a person to me, and I didn’t understand what she’s saying. I’m like, I am me; love me for who I am. But it was finally after we broke up and going through that and then honestly, getting all that time for reflection. Because we all had that whole pandemic and you handled it how you did. It really gave me time to reflect on the last 15 years or so, of my life and kind of what I had done and not done and what had derailed me and I just knew that I had to do a lot of things to kind of get my stuff in order. The education thing was strictly just for the education. It wasn’t for any outcome, or oh, I’m gonna go to school for this trade. It was literally just the habit.”
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