Life
Training Up a Child
Change never just happens, an agent needs to create it. Something needs to initiate it. People talk about a reform in education, but they’re so focused on these small details. The overall objective of “school” needs to be reformed. School needs to be about developing as well as educating. I see a time where school will develop people to a point where entrepreneurs will create businesses around them. Businesses will seek ‘developed’ people and not just ‘educated’ people.
Could you imagine how boring the NBA would be if the players weren’t passionate about what they did if it was just a job to all of them? You ever realize how the ‘greats’ in any sport were passionate about it, and hungry for it? And we just pass them off as being “miracle stories”?
But are they?
In your own life how far could you get in your company, if you were passionate and hungry about what you do? For me, this is like a prick in my eye, because now that I see it, I cannot see the world any other way. Yes, slavery “no longer exists” in the Western World, but what if it’s just going by another name?
What if mentally we are still in chains? No one has to force us to work, because from childhood we are taught that this is the way it is. Go to school, get a good education and that will land you a good job. But does it? And how do we know what we should take? Is a good job, defined as a job that “pays well”? Why can’t it be something we enjoy as well? Who says I have to go to work miserable? NO ONE! But because it’s so normal, it becomes accepted.
What we need is the radicals who believe in freedom. We need people who challenge everything they are fed. My objective with this post isn’t too create radicals who will quit their jobs, take their chidrem out of school and all that. It is to encourage them to create the change they want to see. You know why many successful people of our time dropped out of school? It’s because they knew exactly where they wanted to go and knew how to use school as leverage to help them get there. So if you’re thinking to drop out of school because of laziness, think again.
Work should be a ‘means’ to help us achieve more; experience or financially. But to most of us, it becomes the end. The point is to get you thinking critically about the world you were born into. Something that schools don’t encourage. Something that people don’t do. To get people to refuse to just accept what we are told. And please don’t take this post as absolute truth either, research everything for yourself. All the information is available, you just have to willing to dig deep enough to find it.
