It’s funny, but when asked about things learned 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 is
designed to make young people fit into boxes for the corporations
and suchlike when they come out. In a way, that means, you’re going
to have to make up for any absence of really learning about life!
Here are 7 things they never told me at school (but could have).

1. The Importance of Communication
We were never told the importance of communication or trained in
this area. Effective communication brings together so many different
things and therefore serves as a great life handling tool: Great
relationships, successful projects, achievements… are all routed in
effective communication.

2. Everything is the expression of consciousness
Life shows up as a consequence of where you are consciously at:
Your thoughts, feelings and emotions, attitude… all contribute to the
life that ‘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
(the root cause).

3. Natural health
Like other schools we had our share of economics teachers but no
one ever said that the best investment in life you could ever make is
in your health. Because of corporate interests the education
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. There are 4 things that support good health. They
are: Nutrition, exercise, attitude in life and the environment, but
sadly, this is not given enough attention.

4. Applying philosophy
In school we never talked that much about life. No curriculum was
ever set up to have conversations and discussions with our teachers
on how to handle life; dealing with problems, or how to make
relationships work… etc, the things that matter most to us. Sadly
most people grow up, possibly out of school habit, seldom talk about
life and spend 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 to practically apply ideas in life, hence the empowering
phrase ‘applying philosophy.’

5. Being yourself
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 to think for themselves.
Realize that there are other ways, different to this education sausage
machine that turns out well educated clones unable to really think for
themselves. As Albert Einstein once said “Real thinking is to think the
unthinkable…” History has shown outside-of-the-box individuals
thinking for themselves and they have contributed greatly to
humanity…

6. Having a deep and genuine love for yourself
How do you expect to have a deep and genuine love flowing out
there with your family, friends, groups, communities, the
environment or all things spiritual… and then have it return on you
when you had not began that deep and genuine love right there with
your own self? This is consistent with 2 above that life shows up as a
consequence of where you are consciously at.

7. The past is your biggest enemy in life
I was never told at school how to learn to realise that my past can run
me instead of me running it: Fear, anxiety or an unwillingness to be
creative and adventurous… are the operatives here. Because this
subject could go into great lengths I’ve decided to make it something
for another day. Simpler to say to be in present time, the only place
where life exists is something to be cherished and mastered.

Of course, there were others but I’ll leave it there, at least for now.

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