There’s Something You Don’t Know

“If you’re not as successful as you’d like to be, then there’s something you don’t know.” That’s the quote I read that may very well change a person’s life. If you’re like me, you probably went through school with teachers who didn’t know much about the subject they were teaching, and probably had a ton of those goofy “motivational posters” strewn about like they were the gospel of the world. None of those ever did much for me, except make me think that the person making them has a million dollars from all the schools accross the world that are dumb enough to buy that crap.

Anyway, back to the original quote, “there’s something you don’t know.” That’s the important part. You can paraphrase the first part all you’d like, but the point is to do research. Seek and you shall find. Making money’s easy if you have all the right information. Same with looking taller, being more confident, losing weight, finding inner peace…..etc.

All my life I’ve been hating school. It’s not the learning I hate. I truly believe that there’s not a single human being out there that dislikes learning. But when it’s forced, as in a school system, or by people who say that “you’ll need to know this” when depending on the path you choose as an adult, you probably will not. And children know this, in fact 99% of the time the student knows what information they’ll need, and use. As though we don’t have the inate ability to learn things ourselves. 

It angers me to think that we waste over half of our childrens lives giving them information they may never use. I know I don’t use the vast majority of the things I learned in school. That’s not to say I stopped learning. I constantly read in hopes to apply some of the information that I learn to an outside venture. I wish we could throw responsibilities like that on our youth today. They’d learn, and they’d learn fast. But no, our youth are “too precious” and “we want them to have the best future possible.” How? By forcing there heads full of garbage?! WWF champion Chyna left her home at the age of 16. I have reason to believe that her real world experience helped motivate her to be who she is today. She may have stopped school for some time, but she never quit learning. And that’s a lesson we can all learn from. You must never quit learning!