Episode-1722- Are You Prepared for Life
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It is a question I think many young people would have to honestly answer with no. But middle agers, you folks ain’t off the hook here either. Let us ponder that question today and ask what it would mean to actually be prepared for life and discover if we are even close to teaching our young people that today.
What does prepared for life mean, I think it would differ based on who you ask but here is what it basically means to me. If you are prepared for life you can not just function but thrive no matter the conditions around you. You can adapt, think on your feet and learn what ever you need to learn. You can take risks and be okay with failure because you know how to mitigate risks. That is a short summary, but it indeed is prepared for life.
Based on that definition we are not preparing our youth for life and have not been doing so for a long time. This includes my own generation and prior.
Join Me Today to Discuss…
- A quote to sum it up before we even begin (link)
- Now the quote from the image above (link)
- The big areas of life people are not taught about in school
- Real Financial Management
- Trouble Shooting
- Systems Thinking
- Real Historical Context
- Mechanical Comprehension
- Interactive Ecology
- Food Production, Cooking, Preservation
- Basic Preparedness (lifestyle resiliency)
- Conflict Resolution
- Risk Taking and Mitigation
- Networking
- Sales and Marketing (two different things)
- Critical Thinking
- Self Directed Learning
- How to fix your shit, no one will do it for you
- Identify strengths and weaknesses from the list of 14 – be fing honest!
- Work on one a day every day for a year in rotation one a day, 10 minutes
- Find your passions in life what you love, trust yourself
- Chart a course and stick to it, learn to navigate around storms
- Develop basic preps, storms always come
- Remember “the best way to avoid responsibilities is to claim you have responsibilities”
- Final thoughts – there is a reason they don’t teach you this shit! That should motivate you!
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One of your very best episodes today Jack, I took a lot from this one.
Jack, is there a chance you could do a show [or provide links to some quality material] regarding networking and building social capital?
I don’t even have the slightest clue where to begin with intentionally building relationships with people and developing networks and such.
I was trying to reconcile weather I had a good day or a bad day… when all at once something came from a deep center and a gentle certainty filled everything that “The day is as it should be” “Things are as they should be” this was a fleeting experience but as I ponder it in the midst of conflicting judgment on whatever happens to be going on, the calm and certainty I felt before helps me remember “the day just is” “the thing just is” as bland as that sounds in print, it isn’t bland at all, you just have to experience it… It’s beautiful.
Just wanted to share that before I listened to the podcast. I think the blog lead in coupled with the quote and photograph that inspired me to share.
Jack
This is a very good episode, thank you. I also put it on my facebook to share. I don’t think I know a single soul who wouldn’t gain something out of this one.
From the quotes all the way to the ending question of the type of world we want!
Evelyn
PS: I just had an observation, stemming from my earlier post of “Things are as they are” …it’s like a snapshot, or a print screen, of a moment in time when you just see “this is where you are” — ) It just is.
…but from there it is a node.
Thanks for another great episode. Here’s another version of the ant and the grasshopper that draws attention to the regular miss teaching of this lesson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKxB7vdnego
Short answer – No. Long answer – Absolutely no.
Excellent show today.
I had nearly the same sentiment back in September about school, wow..
http://www.perimeterpermaculture.com/2015/09/01/schools-in/
Want to hear how prepared college students are for living in the United States? Listen to the first seven minutes of Krisanne Hall’s Feb 3 2016 podcast. It might make you mad or cry or both.
Excellent show today! If you don’t mind, I’d like to print copies of your show notes and randomly leave places? Waiting rooms, college campus’s, tucked inside a magazine, where ever I come across some place I could pin this to.
I’m also posting this in a couple of places I look everyday as a reminder of how to get even more sh*t done.
of course that is okay
Great show Jack! You got the wheels cranking man. Thanks so much for all you do.
“Do you want to be prepared for life, or do you want life to be prepared for you?” — the Book of Jack
This is basically unschooling. Very interesting episode again Jack! I particularly liked your food pyramid vs. cattle feed comparison.