Old education solving a new problem

Maybe I've been looking at education all wrong... I think it's a waste of time in a traditional sense, high fees, slow, old, rope learning, regurgitation... but maybe it's strength is it's structure, routine and accountability, thus freeing up our mind to take in more? If our will power is a finite resource drained by thought and choice, maybe it's good most choices are taken away so early on to free up space for an experienced teacher to fill it. Maybe!

Are you useless?

I read this and it made me sad.

I turned 17 and realized I didn't have a plan for life after that age and was actually planning on killing myself the night of my 18th bday but here I still am in a weird useless limbo that helps society none, my family none, myself none, and overall leaves me feeling like I am useless because tbh I really am.

My response.

Did you know almost all people that have something to sell you or take from you have slowly made you believe these feelings? So your value is determined by others opinions of your value... I'm here to tell you if you've ever appreciated a ladybird, a puppy or even a pretty flower, how much more valuable you are, a heart beat that desires to just be, a soul, a conscious awareness of the universe. You feel small, because you are so intelligent, you are aware of everything. You matter because you exist. You think, therefore, you are - with all your flaws and beauty... If you are so aware of what you aren't, it's means you're great enough to just be, And being you is enough... it always has been and always will be. Just be. It is what it is and enjoy being a being with no guilt, no remorse. Just be. Be. .... be.

Do as I say, but I won't do it myself.

We cannot hold a trouch to light another's path without brightening our own - Ben Sweetland

How many of us tell people what they should be doing when we don't do it ourselves... It's like saying 'use my light to see' but there's no light for either of you and you both go astray.

Get your own shit in order before trying to order others.

Most decisions are reversible

Are you really worried something bad might happen, or are you mistaking 'bad' for just 'inconvenient'?
Phelps

Loss aversion losing

By trying to avoid something going wrong will you also be stopping something that is already right?
Phelps

Why can't some people see the obvious?

A 5 year old can't point out a bad maths teacher.
S Phelps

Will power always blowing up?

Pressure valve tactics mind organiser

The plan of the ideal, then the backup plan that allows the pressure to be released without the plan blowing up.
Have as many backup plans as you want.... each one releases more pressure until It's barely different from the regular instinct