I would add one other thing and that is a practical grounding in the economics system. On the other hand i also think that has now largely been addressed. It was way to obvious a gap and one which simple ignorance could get you into a lot of trouble and still does.
Otherwise these are all excellent. Much represents even recent popular insight though ever out there for the seeker.
All good...
7 Things They Never Told Me at School but Could Have
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 schools 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!
1. The Importance of Communication
We were never told 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.
2. Everything is the expression of consciousness
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.
3. Natural health
Like
other schools we had our share of economics 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 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, but sadly,
these things are not given enough attention.
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…
4. Applying philosophy
The above box represents all the things someone says in one day (or any given time period).
The
darkened area is the tiny proportion that represents the things said
that have significance or really matter: 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: Dealing with life’s
recurring problems such as how to make relationships work, or 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 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 creatively 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
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...
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 consciousness-destroying operatives
here. But YOU are the author of your life...
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.
Yes, there were other things they never taught me at school but I'll leave it there, at least for now.
By Paul A Philips, Guest author
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