To many, it may not be surprising that success in school doesn’t necessary predict a successful person later on in life. A number of successful people like to crow on about the fact that although they are successful in life they weren’t that good in school.
Further, many people, when sharing some of their most treasured life-learning insights for success and prosperity… rarely tell us that they had learnt them from schooldays.
Have you ever wondered why?
It has been said that, to a certain extent, schooling often has a somewhat blinkered approach to teaching and learning. In effect, the education system, heavily sponsored by corporate self-interests, clones pupils or young people to fit into boxes or categories for related jobs.
This education system sausage machine cloning may leave its educated individuals devoid of any real critical thinking or creativity. -It will take much effort outside of the education curriculum to acquire these qualities for handling life effectively!
-In light of this, here are 8 things I wasn’t taught at school.
Investment gurus have repeatedly told us that some of the best investments you can currently make to inflate your portfolio are cryptocurrencies, alt coins, precious metals such as gold, ‘Big Tech’ stocks, and not without reason.
However, I say the best investment is in your health.
What good will it do you to have made significant gains from the above financial assets when you’re not healthy enough to enjoy the financial freedom with the money you’ve made? What if you don’t live long enough to see them reach maturity and wealth because you’re no longer alive to reap the benefits…?
Education system, mainstream media, political and corporate self-interests are trying 24/7 to make us into someone that we are not; a cardboard cut-out that is the same as everybody else.
-To avoid becoming a hapless victim of this system you have to think, act, feel and be yourself. Being yourself is your greatest strength.
I wasn’t taught in school that effective communication underpins success in life. Successful relationships, inspiring or influencing others, completing outstanding projects and other great achievements are all brought together through and in the area of effective communication.
-How good are you at speaking and listening…?
Many people, as they have never been taught any different, think that philosophy is merely something that is discussed with ideas about life that are merely theoretical: ‘Thinkers’ having warm fireside chats about the birds and the bees… etc.
That’s okay, but it doesn’t have to be like this.
What’s missing for so many is to get engaged in ‘applied philosophy.’ -To put together ideas, ways of seeing things… for practical application in life.
Applied philosophy is a highly underrated and unrealized approach.
The flow of love for all things starts with loving your own self. How can you ever embrace everything for your true self-expression and empowerment when you can’t even start at the beginning of the flow of love; loving your own self.
Love yourself unconditionally.
In school, no one ever taught me about how my past can have a controlling effect on me if I don’t control it.
Being unadventurous, avoiding the risk, not getting creative, fear of hurtful consequences, overwhelming anxiety for example in trying new things… these are some of the conscious or unconscious operatives that stem from the effects of getting run by your past.
The solution is to courageously confront your past. Look carefully into how your past is driving you and what needs to be done to prevent these controlling mechanisms. -This alone is subject for another article, which I may cover some other time..
The point to get is that life exists in the ‘here and now.’ You can only live in the ‘here and now’ when you have learned how to control your past and not be the effect of it.
If you could free up the energy from your past that has been holding you back, think how much more dynamic you could be when it gets transferred to living life as a presence!
In short, life is something to be lived and fully experienced.
As the saying goes, extraordinary achievements come from extraordinary commitments.
-I never had this instilled into me make at school. I only got the real realization of how commitment was the key to my achievements much later in life.
When living life as an enquiry you have to keep asking yourself: “how committed am I to my projects, tasks or targets for achievement?” Sometimes it may require you to make “unreasonable demands” on yourself…
Want to change the world about you? Want to create a different reality to the one you’re currently experiencing? Then change your consciousness.
This is consistent with the “laws of attraction.” It’s also consistent with ‘quantum jumping,’ where you are able to enter a different timeline to the one you’re currently on: Changing your consciousness for as specific outcome means altering the way you think, act and feel. -Not an easy task for many as there are deeply ingrained attitudes, thought patterns and emotional behaviors needed to be dealt with and radically changed.
Coherence is key to inventing the new you for these intended outcomes to manifest.
In short, it’s based on having the innate courage to change yourself from staying a victim to becoming a victor.
Finally
That concludes my 8 things on what I wasn’t taught in school.
Yes, I realize that there are many other things. For example, I know that there have been books written on the many financial aspects in relation to this subject alone that authors make us aware of…