Mini Session 11: The 7 Lessons We Learned @ School That Could Possibly Ruin Our Lifes

Speaker:  Steli Efti

There are 7 basic lessons I defined that the public school system tries to teach us
(successfully or not) to inhibit our development

Lesson One: Be afraid of failure
Lesson Two: Focus on doing it right
Lesson Three: Learn not to learn
Lesson Four: Intuition isn´t important
Lesson Five: Your believes are irrelevant
Lesson Six: Don´t decide
Lesson Seven: You aim too high

What lessons did you had to unlearn after school so you could have more success and happiness in your life?

Let’s open the Q&A . . .

Comments

[Halil]

Learning in school was for me a bondage. Because the wrong people teached me the wrong stuff. Now I just learn things that I love to learn. I feel happier and my results in buisness getting better and better. Love what you learn and learn what you love.

[Peter]

go with your passion even if no one else is interested

[TonNet]

In my case all of them. School-jail, teacher-police. In this enviroment I don't think we were able to really learn. The info my teachers tried to communicate I almost forgot it and in some cases don't even remember who the teacher was.

[Tiara]

Grades really don't matter, and you are capable of more than you think you are.

[florence meichel]

The Reality doesn't exist : it's only a mental construction !

[Halil]

Hi TonNet that sounds like me too : The info my teachers tried to communicate I almost forgot it and in some cases don't even remember who the teacher was. But that will change more and more because the teachers will become SUPERCOOL :-).

[Peter]

Not to "me" oriented. I have learned more when I help a friend.

[Steli Efti]

@halil: love this quote: "Love what you learn and learn what you love."

@Peter: that´s so true. In the minute I decided to build Supercool School - I knew that it was irrelevant what others would think of it - I would do it anyway!

@TonNet: "School-jail, teacher-police" LOL...and pricipals where the judges! My principal told me that I never would amount to anything! I was 10 years old!!! Well, he taught me how NOT to do it when I ever got power over others. I will be a supercool principal - no judging but helping the people on my school prosper!

@Tiara: I do believe that the only thing we don´t know for sure is what we are capable of!

@florence: that´s why I love the movie The Matrix. It´s such a brilliant metaphor for reality!

[lee]

Steli, the Being afraid of failure problem might be the most insidious. In life (that is what we do after we've finished school) the capability to fail--which means to try stuff that doesn't work out--is one of the most important abilities a person can have. Great post! I wholeheartedly agree.

[Colleen Newman]

Wow! Those are powerful (and hard) lessons to unlearn. These are reoccurring themes in my life. Thanks for making me think.

[Vassili efti]

I am the big brother from steli. I am 8 years older and it was hard for me to see that my "little" brother want to teach me leassons like theese. I was am big fight of several years but he always try to. And I want to say " Thank You!!!! ". This leassons ( and many more ) make me, to try and achieve so many thinks, in privat and bussines!!!! I never believe that!!
I can only say to everybody there: DO IT LIKE THIS!!!!! Knowledge is everything!!!

[Vita Brevis]

Thanks for the courage to write this article. It has a lot of cool ideas. But man, the grammatical errors are so distracting!!!