#0087: Be your own University!

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Content:

1. Future of Living: Trusting the future generation

2. Future of Learning: Learning is an adventure

3. Building Skills: Shawn Mendes learner guitar online

4. Youth Inspiration: Ideas don't come out fully formed...

If children would wake up every day to go to school and stay there for 12 years, how would they make sense of the natural world?

How will they feel responsible for the world they inherit?

When will they get time to explore such topics if they are burdened with homework and assignments as they advance in school?

Slowly, they will stop asking questions, they will adjust their schedule and curriculums, they will fit in the school world till the reality hits, and they will have the pressure to get a job to pay for the education, but when they do get the time to understand how the world works?.. Just a thought.

Future of Living would mean creating a space where young people are part of it, they take responsibility, are heard, and get to speak.

Here are little Magnus and Mira doing their bit for the earth; they took the responsibility to clean the street, and they didn't ask why they should do it, but they did it because they felt responsible.

In the pic - #MagnusGerdesKristensen with #MiraGerdesKristensen In Bansko Town

We left traditional schooling in 2020. We knew that we wanted to be free.

We started learning from the internet, from people, and from real life.

Whatever resources you can think of are available online; one has to explore and find what suits them and fits their lifestyle.

We need to find people who can support our learning journey.

We need to find the tribe we can learn and grow with, and the exploration begins.

The advantage of learning from authors, entrepreneurs, and scientists directly is unbeatable.

Life and learning can get meaningful; we are just a decision away.

We're living in extraordinary times where people can build skills online.

All of us are learning something or other things online.

Even following a recipe is an example of learning online.

Take Shawn Mendes, for example—he learned to play the guitar through online resources. (Did you know that??)

Who would have thought that such possibilities would be within reach?

It's a testament to the incredible opportunities for learning and growth available to us in the digital era.

I am sure many youths admire Mark Zuckerberg; his success stories go around the internet, and his business acumen is discussed and followed by many.

There is a lot to learn from Zuckerberg's Harvard speech. 

Zuckerberg mentions that "purpose is that feeling that you are a part of something bigger than yourself, that you are needed, and that you have something better ahead to work for." 

Zuckerberg doesn't offer easy answers but encourages us to "get started." 

He says to take your time solving the world's problems,

Take on small projects, learn from mistakes, and iterate – clarity often comes through action, not grand plans.

Embrace the blur: "Ideas don't come out fully formed... They only become clearer as you work on them".