The modern schooling system is known to prevent people from acquiring the skills and knowledge needed to thrive in today's world. Before children start school, they learn at a mind-blowing speed. They learn how to walk, run, jump and climb. They become fluent in one or more languages and use those languages to assert their will, argue, ask questions, be funny, make friends, and make sense of their world. They manage to do all this without any curriculum, tests, grades, or schooling structure. However, when we introduce a school structure, children's learning decrease dramatically.

Children learn naturally (without schooling)

Children are instinctively predisposed to educate themselves. Watch any child left alone with an iPhone, and you can see the drive to self-education. Learning drives are:<ul><li>Curiosity drives the child to know what the apparatus is, how it works, and what they can do with it.</li><li>Playfulness causes the child to examine the apparatus. They pass it from hand to hand, turn it over, rub it, shake it, drop it, throw it. They are running little experiments to test the apparatus' properties and capabilities.</li><li>Sociability drives the child to talk to people about this fascinating apparatus.</li></ul>

The educative instinct

Hundreds of studies conducted with children show that they gaze longer at new scenes than familiar ones. They look longer at events that they find intriguing and lose interest as soon as there is nothing new to learn from it. Children are relentlessly drawn toward anything that runs counter to expectations.

Curiosity: The drive to explore and understand

After the curiosity drive leads a child to a new toy or situation, playfulness takes over. Without that curiosity, we wouldn't try out anything new. Without playfulness, we wouldn't become skilful at anything. Research found that the shift from exploration to play is one from a focused serious expression to a more relaxed, smiling one. This understanding of play's biological purpose explains why young animals play more than older animals.

Playfulness: The drive to practice and create

Education is cultural transmission. That is how each new generation acquires and builds upon the skills, knowledge, lore, and values. Without sociability, there's no education. Without sociability, you eliminate the two most important forms of learning:<ol><li>Observation. In most societies, children first learn culturally relevant skills by watching and mimicking their elders.</li><li>Age mixing. Teaching and learning go both ways. Interaction with younger children teaches older ones new skills they wouldn't know otherwise.</li></ol>

Sociability: The drive to share information and ideas

It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Schools teach children that learning is work. Children are told to "do what you are told." School is not an environment that promotes exploration and discovery but is set for indoctrination. Instead of following their curiosity, students learn to jump through hoops and check off boxes. Worst, children learn to ignore their innate curiosity.

Schools kill the curiosity drive

The limitations of school:<ul><li>Children are confined to a largely unchanging environment.</li><li>They are not free to pursue their interests in self-directed ways.</li><li>Children are continuously evaluated so that instead of exploring, discovering, and failing, they learn to be concerned with evaluation and pleasing the teacher.</li></ul> Researchers repeatedly observed that children ask questions about rules and requirements, not the subject itself. The teachers ask questions, and the students guess the answers. When children show interest, the teacher often cuts them off, so they don't fall behind.

Schools kill the playfulness drive

School teaches selfishness, not sociability.When students are evaluated for their learning and compared to other students, they learn to only look out for themselves. If you have the drive to share information and ideas, you're not allowed to bring them into school. Sharing information and ideas is known as "cheating."

Schools kill the sociability drive

Sudbury Valley is a private day school founded by Daniel Greenberg located in a semi-rural part of Massachusetts. He wondered why there couldn't be an educational system that helps students develop passionate interests and then pursue those interests. So Greenberg founded such a school. The basic premise of the school’s educational philosophy is that each person is responsible for his or her own education.

The Sudbury Valley Model of Education

<ul><li>Children educate themselves.</li><li>The school establishes no curriculum, gives no tests, and does not rank or evaluate students.</li><li>The school is a democratic community. Students and staff members operate on a one-person-per-vote basis, regardless of age.</li><li>Students are free all day to move about as they please.</li><li>The students are not assigned to grades or groups.</li><li>The school has a non-evaluation policy. Students wishing to get a school diploma must prepare and defend a thesis explaining why they are ready to graduate and how they have prepared themselves for responsible adult life.</li></ul>

How the Sadbury Valey Model works

“The school system has directly and indirectly, often unintentionally, fostered an attitude in society that children learn and progress primarily by doing tasks that are directed and evaluated by adults, and that children’s own activities are wasted time.”

<blockquote class="ql-align-center">“Children don’t like school because to them school is—dare I say it—prison. Children don’t like school because, like all human beings, they crave freedom, and in school, they are not free.”</blockquote>

Free play is play in which the players decide what and how to play and are free to change the goal and rules as they go along. Free play is how children learn to structure their own behaviour.

Free play

Unschooling is not schooling. Unschooling parents do not send their children to school. At home, children are not bogged down by a curriculum, do not require particular assignments for the purpose of education, and do not test their children to measure progress. Instead, they allow their children the freedom to pursue their own interests and to learn in their own ways.

Unschooling

A book summary of 'Free To Learn' by Dr. Peter Gray. His findings are critical to everything from education, parenting, personal development, and far beyond.

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Free To Learn: Curiosity, Playfulness, Sociability, and the Human Nature of Education

In fact, we are not in a race. We are on our own paths. Some walk, some run and it’s your choice either you walk or run

Everyone is running a different race.

"In many fields, the top performers aren't the people who started when they were two years old. It’s the people who got started a little bit later in life and spent their earlier years exploring and trying a lot of different things.”

If you want it. Get it. If you fail. So be it. Try again until you get it. It all comes on how bad you want it.

There is no such thing as “too late”.

Other's success will generate massive self-doubt every day when you get up. Get up anyway.

Get up!!!

Be consistent and put effort in it. There will be urges that you want to quit. Persevere through it and anything is possible.

Trust the process

Are you constantly learning? Are you pushing yourself forward? If you are, you are not behind. You are learning new things in life. It takes time but it will pay off in the end.

Something to think about:

Things get hard when you're closing in on success.

"Don't compare your chapter one to someone else's chapter twenty. Everyone's journey is different, and it's never too late to start your own story."

Something to think about.

There are people that feel this way. That they are feeling left behind in life. Especially young adults like me. This ideas made me realize a lot. 

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If You Feel Left Behind In Life

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courag

“Play by the rules, but be ferocious.”

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

“Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.”

“You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

“There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.”

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”

“I don’t know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.”

The quotes to inspire you to become self independent and be curious to learn...

These 30 business quotes are sure to motivate you to greatness. See what the greatest minds in history had to say about business and success.

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10 Quotes to inspire you to never stop Learning. 

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however, measured or far away.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...

In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this Earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will simply and wisely...

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me the truth.

In the end, the only shame of being unsuccessful in life is being unsuccessful in living how you want to the best you can.

Excuses make today easy but tomorrow hard.Discipline makes today hard but tomorrow easy.Hang out with those who will elevate your mind.& lastly, work harder ;move smarter ;think wiser ;talk less.

doubt?

These quotes might be short but listen to me, open this when you feel your life has been meaningless.

living blissfully.

Creativity arises as a result of being able to think through different situations at once, it requires a healthy mindset and energy. It is about how distinctive and unique your imagination can be, you are able to think through situations to a situation. A person with lesser creativity will have think about x and y as the results, whereas a person who is highly creative might have a, b, c, x, y and z as the result.

Creativity can be kindled and it is one of the best value add skills you might want to have in you. A creative mindset is built over a period of time. There is a little effort required from you to work on it, you might have to think through the situations come up with different variants of understanding from the same situation and there is something with the way you look at the world. Creativity flourishes with a sound mindset and needs lot of energy.

A question you might ask yourself would be am I creative ? if the answer is straight forward then you are already doing a good job while if you have to think through to the yes then it might be a no. Don’t worry you can always work on your creativity regardless of the age. The next question is how ?

There are a set of skills and areas in which you can work with discipline to see great results. Below are some of the areas which are great for improving your creativity. Learning art (Painting and sketching) Multi lingual Exercise (brings lot of energy) Being in nature Reading Journaling These are some fundamental workings required you to be good with, if you already exercise some of these skills then you might already know the value of them.

Slowly and gradually you will definitely become creative if you are working on your self and over a period of time you will wonder about the improvements you see in yourself.

I learnt alot with this methodology and i hope you can improve yourself too 

Working with Creativity 

Perfectionists are people who strive for flawlessness, set intensely high standards for themselves, and are highly critical of their own behavior. While perfectionism has been the subject of much research, it remains unclear how the concept relates to creative thinking. Perfectionists might be expected to be short on creativity since creativity requires being flexible and open to mistakes. But perfectionists might also be expected to be high in creativity since creative pursuits call for perseverance and commitment — qualities that are typical of perfectionists.

The Perfectionists And Creativity

A team of researchers from the University of Ottawa proposed that these contrasting expectations might be explained by a distinction between striving for excellence and perfection. Their reasoning was based on a theory developed by one of the study authors called the Model of Excellencism and Perfectionism (MEP).

The Model of Excellencism and Perfectionism (MEP)

The Model of Excellencism and Perfectionism (MEP) explains that the concepts of excellencism and perfectionism, while related, are distinct in their goals. While both concepts involve the pursuit of very high standards, excellencism is flexible while perfectionism is unforgiving. Perfectionism goes beyond striving for excellence and aims for flawlessness.

The Unforgiving Flawlessness

“Standards of perfection have an important impact on the process of creation,” explained study author Jean- Christophe Goulet-Pelletier, a PhD student at the University of Ottawa. “It affects the motivation, emotions, and behaviors of individuals. High strivings can be energizing, but may also rigidify the behaviors of individuals when set rigidly. We wanted to investigate whether high strivings of perfection were beneficial, neutral, or detrimental to creative thinking.”

The Standards Of Perfection And Their Effect

The researchers note several reasons why perfectionism might block creativity. For one, perfectionists may be overly motivated to find quick and perfect solutions, leading them to focus on conventional strategies and to avoid new and uncertain ones. Secondly, being unduly analytical and critical of their performance may hold perfectionists back from achieving a creative flow. Similarly, being overly doubtful of their actions may impede their cognitive engagement and concentration.

Why Might Perfectionism Block Creativity?

“Striving for perfection over and above excellence is likely to limit experimentation, spontaneity, and openness,” the study authors wrote. “Relaxing the perfection constraint means changing the narrative so that it becomes ‘okay if it isn’t always perfect’ (Nordin-Bates, 2020, p. 31). As such, our findings suggest that excellencism could be a suitable alternative to the pursuit of perfectionistic standards.”

Loosen The (Perfection) Restraints

“Many questions need to be addressed,” Goulet-Pelletier explained. “Our study did not specifically identify which mechanism explained the detrimental effect of perfectionism on creative thinking abilities. Moreover, creativity and perfectionism are expressed differently in different contexts of life, such as in the workplace vs. in arts. Another line of questioning is to understand what happens when creativity is needed to reach perfection?”

The Questions (Should) Never Stop

The authors note that their studies employed only a small number of creative and associative tasks, which may have compromised the generalizability of their findings. Future studies should explore additional creative tasks to see if the findings replicate across other aspects of creative achievement.“As a general comment for the reader, I’d like to emphasize that a single study is never enough to conclude anything,” Goulet-Pelletier added. “Results are sometimes reinterpreted in light of new theories. The aggregation and replication of effects is needed to ascertain their reliability.”

A General Comment For Any And All Readers

New research published in the British Journal of Psychology suggests that if we want to improve our creativity, it is better to aim for excellence rather than perfection. 

New research published in the British Journal of Psychology suggests that if you want to improve your creativity, it is better to aim for excellence rather than perfection. Across two studies, students who were pursuing excellence performed better on creative tasks than students who were pursuing perfection. ...

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Be Better Than Perfect: Be Excellent

A philosophy based on how you respond to the circumstances of your life.﻿﻿It's not what happens to you its how you respond to the situation .﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿4 Pillars of Stoicism• Wisdom﻿• Justice﻿• Courage ﻿• Moderation ﻿Philosophy is a way of life, don't just talk about being a good person, but BE A GOOD PERSON.﻿﻿ ﻿

Stoicism 😌

When you speaking consider these:• Honesty• Simplicity• RelevanceBe tactful when pointing out mistakes.• The goal should be  to uplift not to breakdown a person

Speaking wisely🙊

Being about your business means taking actions that align with your highest beliefs. Being clear about your values makes it easier to understand what is a priority in your life. Reflect on your values regularly.• Quiet moments of reflection are recommended - Meditation

Values❤️

Someone is going to die today this is a fact of life that we face every waking moment, the fact that death has not chosen you today is something to be grateful for.Gratitude helps put into perspective the abundance you have in your life. <ul><li>Nothing lasts forever -Momento Mori</li><li>Focus on living a deeply fulfilling life </li><li>It's about the depth, not the length of your life that is important.</li></ul>

Death💀

Humans are thrill-seekers, the physical being wants to be fed with dopamine fillers, there is no need to feel guilty about that but too much of anything is not good for anyone.  As much as we want to feel good physically it is important to "feed the soul".Don't just chase the dopamine• Push yourself to the limit- explore yourself and your limits • The human experience is finite so go on and live it to the fullest by socializing, and exercising whatever gets you going besides the screens.

Desire🧞‍♂️

Whatever you Go through you Grow through Again it's how you respond to the painful experience.H.O.P.EHold On Pain EndsIt does not get easier in life but we become tougher through the rough.Develop your thick skin

Pain🤕

More than anything fear is a friend. Consider how fear is just your mind making you aware of the danger. This has been an attribute of human nature since the dawn of time.Think of fear as a caring friend that doesn't want to see you getting hurt

Fear😱

According to Marcus Aurelius, the antidote to anger is kindness.Yes, anger is a response but it is not the healthiest response to the situation.Whenever you're angry :• Take a moment(count to 10 if you must)• It's best not to react to the situation if you're angry• Remove yourself from the situation and come back when you're calm.• Cooler heads will prevail.• An angry reaction is not a sign of strength or power -its a loss of self-control.

Anger🤬

I'm not religious I'm spiritual. I enjoy whatever feeds the soul.

"This book is a wonderful introduction to one of history's greatest figures: Marcus Aurelius. His life and this book are a clear guide for those facing adversity, seeking tranquility and pursuing excellence." —Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and The Daily Stoic The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent. Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the last famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time. In How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, cognitive psychotherapist Donald Robertson weaves the life and philosophy of Marcus Aurelius together seamlessly to provide a compelling modern-day guide to the Stoic wisdom followed by countless individuals throughout the centuries as a path to achieving greater fulfillment and emotional resilience. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor takes readers on a transformative journey along with Marcus, following his progress from a young noble at the court of Hadrian—taken under the wing of some of the finest philosophers of his day—through to his reign as emperor of Rome at the height of its power. Robertson shows how Marcus used philosophical doctrines and therapeutic practices to build emotional resilience and endure tremendous adversity, and guides readers through applying the same methods to their own lives. Combining remarkable stories from Marcus’s life with insights from modern psychology and the enduring wisdom of his philosophy, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor puts a human face on Stoicism and offers a timeless and essential guide to handling the ethical and psychological challenges we face today.

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"This book is a wonderful introduction to one of history's greatest figures: Marcus Aurelius. His life and this book are a clear guide for those facing adversity, seeking tranquility and pursuing excellence." —Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and The Daily Stoic The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent. Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the last famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time. In How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, cognitive psychotherapist Donald Robertson weaves the life and philosophy of Marcus Aurelius together seamlessly to provide a compelling modern-day guide to the Stoic wisdom followed by countless individuals throughout the centuries as a path to achieving greater fulfillment and emotional resilience. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor takes readers on a transformative journey along with Marcus, following his progress from a young noble at the court of Hadrian—taken under the wing of some of the finest philosophers of his day—through to his reign as emperor of Rome at the height of its power. Robertson shows how Marcus used philosophical doctrines and therapeutic practices to build emotional resilience and endure tremendous adversity, and guides readers through applying the same methods to their own lives. Combining remarkable stories from Marcus’s life with insights from modern psychology and the enduring wisdom of his philosophy, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor puts a human face on Stoicism and offers a timeless and essential guide to handling the ethical and psychological challenges we face today.

Author of books on philosophy and psychotherapy, including Stoicism and the Art of Happiness, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, and the graphic novel Verissimus. I'm a philosopher and psychotherapist with a special interest in Stoicism and CBT. I was born in Scotland, but now live in Canada and Greece. 

Donald J. Robertson

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

<ul><li>A decluttered home is not as satisfying for some as the process of decluttering, and the joy derived from purging stuff.</li><li>Clutter is an overabundance of possessions that collectively create chaotic and disorderly living spaces.</li><li>Being around messiness would lead people away from convention, in favor of new directions.</li></ul>

The Joy Of Decluttering: Key Points

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/realestate/marie-kondo-pandemic-clutter.html">According to experts like organizational behaviorist Tal Ben-Shahar</a>, it’s the joy of decluttering more than the decluttered home that drives this process (hence the great decluttering Americans went through during the pandemic).So enjoy the dance of decluttering your premises and throw away that shirt you never wore but keep on tucked in the closet!

The Urge to Purge

Ironically, as I preach simplicity, I find myself increasingly overwhelmed with clutter. It started off benignly at first: books and articles that accumulated over the years while researching…

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By force of habit, most executives tune down their imagination when strategizing. This is counterproductive, and there is an alternative: Design fiction. A design technique that immerses executives and employees deeply in various possible futures, it uses artifacts such as short movies, fictitious newspaper articles and imaginary commercials to generate transformation roadmaps. Rooted in the future but helping to act in the present, design fiction results in concrete actions taken to adjust companies’ visions, strategies, and activities to create a better future.

No Place For Imagination

Trying to predict what the future will look like is doomed to fail. Yet this is what most executives do when they strategize. They — we — do this because we have been trained and educated to use trends and statistics to predict what is likely to happen and prepare accordingly. As a result, companies <a href="https://hbr.org/2020/06/3-things-youre-getting-wrong-about-organizational-change">struggle to react to changes</a> in their environments when they should be <a href="https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amr.2019.0289">shaping them proactively</a>. This is an issue for executives around the globe whose strategizing, anchored in the past, misses out on important opportunities to envision, and design, possible futures.

Visualizing The Future

Unlike many <a href="https://hbr.org/2019/07/how-to-do-strategic-planning-like-a-futurist">strategic foresight tools</a>, design fiction does not attempt to identify what is more likely to happen. Nor does it limit strategy conversations to the C-suite; in fact a core component is the participation of a wide range of stakeholders. Consequently, the teams that we’ve seen deploy design fiction are able to formulate and shape desirable futures that other tools do not enable people to see.

Design Fiction

The first step of putting design fiction into practice involves crafting scenarios of possible futures. For example, in a project with a major car insurance company, we analyzed information from urban mobility trends, autopilot flight modes, Luc Besson’s notorious movie The Fifth Element, and interviews with early electric car adopters to develop scenarios of possible futures. These atypical data sources help spotlight less obvious aspects that would otherwise remain unnoticed in the strategizing process.

Creating Scenarios From Pop Culture

Design fiction has helped dozens of multinational companies to strategize differently. And while creating fictional futures may sound a little quirky, we know that it works. For example, a recent design-fiction project conducted with a major oil and gas company helped identify how to shape a future in which people living in remote areas were less socially isolated. The company decided to repurpose gas stations into places galvanizing community through services such as car sharing hubs, medical centers, delivery platforms, and ghost kitchens.

Inventing The Future

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Using Fiction to Find Your Strategy

“Nothing can suppress a human’s curiosity.”

“Even in moments of the deepest despair… I guess we can still find hope, huh?”

“When people are faced with a situation they don’t understand, it’s easy for fear to take hold.”

“Do you always want to live hiding behind the mask you put up for the sake of others? You’re you, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

“The only thing we’re allowed to do is believe that we won’t regret the choice we made.”

“This world is merciless, and it’s also very beautiful.”

Anime Season 2 coming to Funimation in April 2017! The blockbuster manga edges closer to its thrilling conclusions. The mysteries of the Titans are being revealed… who will escape death at the hands of giants and human beings?

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Anime Season 2 coming to Funimation in April 2017! The blockbuster manga edges closer to its thrilling conclusions. The mysteries of the Titans are being revealed… who will escape death at the hands of giants and human beings?

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Attack on Titan

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