It’s funny, but when asked about things learnt that have served to be the greatest contribution to their lives most people will not mention anything from school days.
Have you noticed this?
I can say that the things I have learnt which have served as a platform for personal growth did not come from the classroom.
Basically, the education system with its tunnel-minded curriculum frequently taught by blinkered, know-it-all academics, having fallen for the “I’m an expert” trap, is designed to programme young people to fit into boxes: work for corporations (and suchlike) when they graduate.
In a way, that means you’re going to have to make up for an absence of really learning about life!
Here are 7 things they never told me at school (but could have).
We were never told in school about the importance of communication or trained in this area. Essentially, effective communication brings together so many different things and therefore serves as a great life-handling tool for personal achievement: Communication for forming great relationships, teamwork, solving problems, and successful project completions… are all routed in effective communication.
Another one not that much attention given to in school. Consistent with the “Laws of Attraction,” life shows up as a consequence of where you are consciously at. Your thoughts, feelings and emotions, attitude… all contribute to how life ‘shows up’ for you. So, if you don’t like the life you’re living, then change these things.
For example, if you find yourself in victimhood circumstances (the symptoms of victim consciousness) then look at where you are consciously at and change these things.
In school we had our share of economics school teachers, but no one ever told me that the best investment in life you could ever make is in your health.
Because of corporate interests, the education school curriculum generally focuses only on pharmaceutical approaches when it comes to health. Alternative practitioners and great pioneers with their potentially life-saving approaches based on natural health have been ignored, suppressed or even unjustly ridiculed.
There are 4 things that support good health.
They are: good nutrition, regular exercise, a positive outlook in life and maintaining a clean, stress-free environment where possible. Sadly, these things are not given enough attention. Equally sadly, when many people are told that they have an incurable disease, in their ignorance they fail to make the retrospective connection – how over the years they have lacked the above 4 things and now have to pay the price as a consequence…
The above box represents all the things a person says in one day (or any given time period).
The darkened area is the tiny proportion that represents the things a person says that really mean something. Do you see yourself in this model?
In school we never talked that much about the things that really matter in life. No curriculum was ever set up to have conversations or discussions with our teachers on how to handle life effectively – how to deal with life’s recurring problems such as how to make relationships work, or how to address important subjects from a higher perspective… i.e. the things that have significance to all of us.
Sadly, most people grow up, possibly out of school habit, seldom talking about life and spending much of their time talking meaningless nah, nah, nah nothings… and look at the result. A world full of people going nowhere in their lives, just like the soap opera characters on TV…
Philosophy doesn’t have to be just mere armchair discussion. It can be used creatively to practically apply ideas in life, hence the empowering phrase ‘applying philosophy’.
You don’t have to just be some corporate cog-in-wheel care of the education system’s grooming. I have learned that being yourself is your biggest strength. More than ever, particularly on the humanitarian front, the world needs people able to think for themselves: innovation and adaptability are keys for world transformation.
Realize that there are other ways, different to an education system that stifles self-expression, creativity and imagination and then churns out well-educated robotic clones unable to really think for themselves.
As Albert Einstein once said“Real thinking is to think the unthinkable…” History has shown how the tiny few outside-of-the-box individuals think for themselves and how they have contributed greatly to humanity…
Finally – Take a look at this thought-prevoking video