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7 Things They SHOULD’VE Taught You In SCHOOL (But Didn’t) | #7Ways


it’s one of the things that I still use
to this date it’s one of the most
important lessons I ever learned in my
life and I think it’s a topic that’s
just completely ignored in the education
what’s up believe nation at seven my one
word is believe and I believe in you I
believe you have Michael Jordan level
talent at something and I want you to
find it embrace it and use it to make a
difference in this world so to help you
on your journey today we’re gonna look
at the seven things that they should
have taught you in school but didn’t
help you enjoy okay let’s kick it off
with way number one how to learn verses
memorize this is the biggest complaint
that people have with the education
system is that they teach people how to
memorize things and don’t focus enough
time on how to learn unless I’m not
going to knock the the education system
completely I think a lot of learning is
actually done but there is a lot of
memorizing that people have to do to
pass a test and that is not the equal of
you actually learning something
understanding and memorizing who the
18th president is is not going to help
you get a job somewhere what companies
want to see is your ability to be
creative your ability to think your
ability to learn you ability to process
things quickly and a lot of that is
taught I think in the education system
but a lot of it isn’t and I think that’s
a piece that frustrates people the most
if I want to know who the 18th president
is I can look it up if I want to know
you know what the capital of whatever
state or province is I can look it up a
lot of the facts a lot of the statistics
you can look it up now your ability to
get a job is no longer determined by how
much you can memorize and instead how
much you can think and I think this is
the single biggest thing that’s the
school system is missing and needs to
improve so that’s the easiest one but I
got six more I think are really helpful
number two is understand what success
looks like for you
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I think typically we’ve had this culture
where success looks like a certain thing
right success looks like you go to
school then you go to high school you go
to university or college and you go and
you get a job and you say with one
company for the rest of your life and
that has been the traditional model that
you know our parents might have gone
through and now success looks very
different success for people has so many
different options and I don’t think the
school system is a great job of exposing
the different options and at least
opening people’s eyes to what success
could look like for them it’s no longer
you have to go to school and you have to
go get a job at a company it’s how can
my education help me determine what
success looks like for me and give me
the best experience possible to help me
achieve that success and so I would love
to see whether this is through the
guidance counselor program or there’s a
class on it in the school system where
you were actually helping the students
define what a success look like for you
and then mapping out a course curriculum
and extracurricular activities and
tapping into the alumni network and
every resource of school has to help
each student build towards their path
and I think you can give the students a
lot of onus and responsibility it
doesn’t only have to be on the teachers
to do this and you think was a lot of
time a lot of expense to figure that out
if that’s a class if building your life
is a class and helping you acquire the
skills to get there I think ultimately
that’s the most important class that you
can have in the school system and
allowing people to build that plan for
themselves so I think a lot of the
education system just trains people to
get a job and I think people don’t want
to go that path anymore
and that’s leading down a really
frustrating path for a lot of students
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the number three thing they should have
taught you in school but they didn’t is
self confidence I think the greatest
gift that you can give students is self
confidence just to believe in themselves
more and yes I’m biased because I’m the
believed guy but the ability to help the
students figure out how they can believe
in themselves more in their projects in
themselves in the curricular activities
that they’re doing I think is really
missed I think that ability that skill
is much more important than again than
memorizing what happened in World War
two in a specific battle right I think
if you can teach kids to be able to be
self confident to stand up to bullies to
believe themselves whether that’s
through its own course or whether that’s
through a matching a leadership training
course for students coming through one
of the things I’m looking at from my son
who’s nine years old is allowing him to
be on snapchat in a public account
because he’s gonna get people who love
him and he’s gonna get haters and be
able to work with him on the haters I
think if you learn at nine years old how
to deal with haters somebody who says
your snap sucks or your Instagram post
sucks
to be able to deal with that they’ll
have the self-confidence to work through
Nicky TV at age nine I think it’s one of
the greatest gifts that you can give
people and I think it’s a topic that’s
just completely ignored in the education
system right now
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thing number four is self-awareness I
think people just don’t have
self-awareness is why I wrote your one
word it’s understanding what your most
important core value is and then be able
to design a life and for the people want
to be entrepreneurs a business around it
afterwards whether you use your one word
as a template or you’re using some other
model having self-awareness to
understand as a human being
what are you staying for what are your
most important core values and then how
do you design a life in a in a class you
know material perspective around that I
think too often we are trying to live up
to the expectations of our teachers of
our parents of our classmates we see
what they’re doing we see how they judge
us and we just try to live up to that
instead of actually saying hey here’s
what I stand for it might be different
than what my parents stand for it might
be different than what my teachers stand
for it might be different than what my
classmates same for and that’s okay if
you could teach self-awareness and
giving people access to tools like your
one word or anything else you may hit
your one word awesome give them other
tools for self-awareness give them the
personality test give them any other
book that discusses a topic you can go
to Barnes and Nobles or Amazon there’s a
ton of resources on this you can bring
guest speakers in exposing students to
ask questions to figure out who they are
as a human being doing that in high
school or doing that University I think
is so important because people are
making really life-changing decisions
when you decide that you’re going to go
into a university course when you’re
graduating you decide to start a
business or go into a career path a lot
of times it becomes really hard to jump
off that you’re making decisions I think
it was like you’re getting married
really early in life you’re getting
married before you even know what dating
looks like you don’t know who you are
yourself before you jump in and people
stick on a career path and have really
hard time jumping off they feel like
they’ve been handcuffed now because they
have debt and they have a house and they
have family and have all these things
that are binding them and it just made
the wrong decision from the get because
they had no self-awareness and so where
do people learn it they learn it from
people on YouTube they learn it by going
out to the library and researching
themselves they learn it by going online
they’re not learning it in the school
system and so having an ability to teach
self awareness I think is probably one
of the most important things that you
can have
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thing number five is how to model
success and this ties into the first one
about memorizing versus learning I think
one of the most important things that
you can learn is understanding how can I
dissect what has worked for other people
to help it work for me instead of just
memorizing something from the textbook
to say here’s a problem here’s a problem
that I’m trying to solve who has gone
out and solved this who has done it in a
way that is meaningful and interesting
and exciting that I can learn from and
work it for me this is what saved my
business when I was in university and I
almost quit on my company I said hey I’m
not the first guy to try to solve this
thing before who else has built a
software company that I can learn from
and I learned from Bill Gates I look at
how he started how he made his first
million he said I want to do that and it
was through partnerships and so I
applied that to my business and started
actually getting growth started as she
making money eventually building my
company to be able to sell it all from
that path of modeling success and that
was a concept that was never taught to
me in school and so if we can give
students a problem set and say go solve
this we’re not gonna tell you what books
to read we’re not gonna tell you what
videos to watch we’re not gonna tell you
who to interview go find somebody who
has solved this already learn from them
and solve it yourself instead of giving
people the answers all the time instead
of just trying to drill in teaching
having them be creative to go out and
ask who has solved this and applied to
this problem I think is an incredibly
valuable skill it’s one of the things
that I still use to this date it’s one
of the most important lessons I ever
learned in my life and I wish it was
taught earlier it’s something that I try
to teach to the the kids who come on my
youtube channel it’s something that I
try to pass down through Hayden and the
kids that I interact with and I really
wish the school system taught it to
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thing number six has had a plan I think
in general students are not great at
planning I think people just aren’t
great at planning and they need to learn
the skills and how to do it everybody
should have the option to design their
own course one of the things that was a
great for me in university I didn’t even
know this was an option I found one of
my professors somebody told me about
this and my my last year thinking
university we can design your own course
if you get a professor to back you you
guys can work together and design your
own course for a credit and so I got to
design my own custom course around
pricing I applied it to the business I
was already running and everything that
I was learning researching doing
was guided by the teacher and I was also
to apply it to a real practical
situation in my business which was how
do i price this product that I’m trying
to sell and so even that concept of I
want to learn something I want to design
a course around that going through that
structure instead of just feeding it to
somebody say here here’s the only way to
do it eat from this ball there’s no
other way to do it to give students the
option to figure out what their own
course might look like and to give them
sponsorship and ownership over that
instead of just feeding it to them I
think is a great skill set to learn I
think a lot of times people struggle
going from high school to university
because everything has just been handed
to them in high school and then they go
to university and and it’s a whole new
world you know a lot of times they’re
away from their parents they have
complete freedom whether they come to
class or not there’s nobody police in
them anymore and that that jump can be
really difficult for a lot of people
because we haven’t taught them how to be
adults in high school we haven’t taught
them how to plan and so I would love to
see in every year having one course
where you get to pick what you do where
you get mentored even have alumni come
in like it doesn’t have to be teacher
run if teachers don’t have the budget of
resources to do it
have it be fuelled by alumni I want to
be an entrepreneur so I’m going to
design an entrepreneur course and we’re
going to find somebody in our alumni
network to grade you to mentor you to
sponsor you to give you guidance around
this because we don’t have the
infrastructure or the or this knowledge
set in here to be able to help you I
think that’s so valuable to give them
the practical real-world experience and
teach them how to plan
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and thing number seven that they shoulda
taught you in school but didn’t is how
to be an entrepreneur so many people
just want to be an entrepreneur I think
if you look at what students want to be
right now number one I think is youtuber
on there and in one to ten a ton of
those are going to be entrepreneurs just
various career options and yet we don’t
teach them we don’t prep them we don’t
get them give them instruction we don’t
train them to help get them to the path
that they want to become I think it ties
into my early point of what the success
looked like for them if they think they
want to be an entrepreneur I think
everybody should try to be an
entrepreneur just to know just to know
if it’s for you or not I think if you
have on trial thoughts in your head I
think the worst thing you can do is jump
on the corporate path and stay there for
the steer life always wondering what if
and so entrepreneurship is difficult to
teach in a classroom but what you can do
is through programs like Junior
Achievement I did you know achievement
for three out of my four high school
years when you basically set up a
company in after school hours and you
sell pens or you sell towel bindings so
you sell something that you make and
you’re responsible for making it then
your sponsor from marketing it you
sponsor for selling it you’re something
for counting all the things that you
need to do to run a business and
everybody has their role I would love to
see it as a class why does it have to be
an extracurricular activity afterwards
why can’t entrepreneurship be a class I
think everybody should get access to
entrepreneurial experience just to see
if it’s for them just like science you
know I hated science I dropped it as
soon as possible whatever that was great
nine a great ten when I could drop out
of science and not do it again just like
we give exposure to music I had to play
you know trumpet for a good number of
years and I dropped that pretty quickly
once I got the high school let people
have an option like the chances of
somebody becoming a musician compared to
being an entrepreneur this is a lot more
people who are going to be an
entrepreneur and we’re not teaching them
anything not the NACA musicians I think
music is really important too I would
give more electives earlier on I would
love to have had the option from grade
eight to be an entrepreneur or at least
get an introduction to it and see if
that might be a path for me and so I
think given how important entrepreneurs
are and I think given how much
experience that you can get early on I
think giving people an opportunity to
make a lemonade stand at the school and
keep track of their budgets and how much
they
spen and marketing and selling and the
skills that go alongside it and again
getting mentors from outside alumni
people in the community to give
mentorship and help and give guidance I
think it can just make a really big
difference for people to know if they
should be an entrepreneur or not and I
think that’s one of the biggest areas
that our school system currently lets us
down so those are the seven things I
think they should have taught in school
but didn’t I’m gonna add one more thing
if you’re a parent and you’re concerned
about this at the end of the day you
still get the chance to train your kid
right you still are responsible for
educating your child much more than the
school system is and so don’t deflect
the opportunity one of the greatest
things that my parents gave me the
greatest gifts is the shield they gave
me a shield against my teachers there
was one time I remember where my teacher
asked me to draw a sunset and I drew a
sunset but it was within a window and
the window was in a bedroom and the
bedroom had curtains and windows you
know shades and all this stuff and I
drew this entire room and she failed me
because she said I want you to draw a
sunset and I drew this room but then
there was a sunset in the background and
my parents came in and spoke with the
teacher and said listen you asked him to
do a sunset there’s a sunset there
you didn’t say you couldn’t do all these
other things and so a lot of times that
could have just stifled my creativity
that could have stopped me down that
could have held me at the bottom and
even though I failed on that course on
that assignment I still felt great about
myself because my parents taught me to
believe right and so for any parents out
there I think it’s your responsibility
to be the shield to be the air cover to
give protection for your kids around the
values that you think are most important
all of these seven things great they
don’t teach them in school but you could
teach them yourself
you still have a lot more responsibility
than your then the teachers do and
you’re at your kids school and so I
encourage you to go off and do it as
well whatever it is it’s your
responsibility let make it better so
those are my seven things I’d love to
know which one do you resonate with the
most is there an 8 9 10 that I’m missing
leaving the comments below thank you
guys so much for watching I believe in
you I hope we continue to believe in
yourself and whatever your one word is
much love I’ll see you soon
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