Three things they don’t teach you in school
1. They don’t teach you in school…to ask GOOD questions.
The quality of the questions we asks determines what kind of life we have.
If we are preoccupied with “does my ass look big in these pants”, we will not be asking - “what are the unique contributions that I can make with my life’s work?” Maybe you can do both, but I have personally found them to conflict a bit!
“How can i resource myself to produce great results?”
“What is the bigger opportunity here?”
“Am I asking the right questions” <— that’s the best question of all.
We’ve got One Precious Life and it goes really fast. So ask the good questions. Be really curious. We are just stupid humans after all. There is everything to learn, and many things to unlearn.
2. In our schools and universities we teach in ways that create categories and definitions - science, politics, arts, humanities, spirituality. Its our way of being able to take in a huge amount of complexity. But the world itself isn’t fragmented like that.
So the skill (they don’t teach) is putting it back together meaningfully.
Thats an art that you can spend the rest of your life perfecting.
3. What they also don’t teach you in school:
School does not teach you to take risks. It does not encourage you to be bold, outspoken or to speak from your heart.
We need people who are prepared to challenge the dominant paradigm - to scratch away at the surface and see what else is possible. Not everyone is cut out for that, but you will know in your heart if you are an adventurer. Ideally we are able to be both adventurous and safe, and we develop the judgement to choose when it is appropriate to be one or the other. A great resource for fellow adventurers:
