A happy childhood, Soviet system of education, a duty to the motherland, smoke of Fatherland, and so on and so forth... Get ready, it will hurt now.
It’s already 3rd week that I’ve been studying the techniques of a healthy Win-Win business (it’s the case when both the client and the company are the winners and are satisfied. Yes, the rarest phenomenon for our country, but it’s possible). At the same time Anna is testing break-through-glass-ceiling techniques on herself (quite successfully) and even succeeds in sharing insiders with me. Let me describe one of the mental fruits of this infernal porridge of premature enlightenment.
Truly successful entrepreneurs who own multimillion-dollar companies that bring real VALUE to people and solve their TROUBLES can create them just from the ground up. Indeed, their basic skills contradict with the truth and the demand that schools and universities are massively drilling into our brains. ⠀ Roughly speaking, those D-pupils sitting in the back of the classroom are people who initially have more solid and correct attitudes in goal setting and achievement. From nature, they just do it on a level of intuition. On the other hand, the excellent students in this coordinate system happen to be into a total crap on average. If they want to get out of it, they need a lot to UNSEE. The perfectionism I’ve mentioned previously is just one of such points.
Being a father, I came to the following conclusion: if a child doesn’t want to go to school, then the child is RIGHT. This laziness indicates that what is happening in the classroom is just not for this child. If you prefer to close your eyes at such moments and make your children learn by force, their brain will be trained to ignore their own intuition and will be afraid to search for different ways round. The children will be learning to keep silent every time they don’t agree year after year, and as a consequence, their unreleased negative energy and emotional blockage will slowly squeeze and destroy their body. As a result, you’ll get an unmotivated weak-willed person, incapable of any initiative. This person would wait for the permission to speak and when finally allowed, he or she will just keep silent, increasing the number of their own nerve clamps.
That’s how the education system turns into a creepy conveyor belt, the outer product of which is hunched shy people who are unable to listen to themselves, think creatively and grow up adequate to the world around them. Those who managed to get out of this conveyor, the so-called "talent", constitute a small percentage of lucky people whose hobbies coincided accidentally with one or more school subjects. We all do know that there are no bad or wrong children. You’ve learned now where they disappear. ⠀ PS: I fell in love with math at primary school
Translated by Irina Zaitseva
