How the public school system tried (successfully or not) to inhibit your development and seven simple remedies for your personal freedom. Read, reflect, discuss and take action - that ́s what it's all about. To start a conversation with you and make some positive changes. ­ Steli Efti

Lesson One: Be afraid of failure

Fix Your Fears Schools train you to: Be afraid! Restrain yourself! Be an underdog! Fix Your Fears

„He who knows others is smart. He who knows himself wise." When looking at a schools lesson­plan, did you ever see the subject "Wisdom Through Self­Knowledge"? Nope! And there are good reasons for that: it would turn the student into the teacher and the teacher into the student. That's turning the school­system upside down. That's supercool! Don't become somebody that has written books. Be somebody that other people write books about! Do what you're most afraid of. I repeat: Do what you're most afraid of. This is how true wisdom is created. Expand yourself, that's the only way to grow. You can't grow by just getting better at what you're doing already. That's shrinking, or specialising as the experts like to reframe it. Don't shrink yourself ­ discover new territories. What to do: Get a pad, a pen, close your phone and lock your door: Start writing. Write down everything that you'd do tomorrow if you had the guarantee that it would work. If you've written down all the things on a piece of paper, throw it away and start again! Don't stop untill you can't think of yet another think.

Lesson Two: Focus on doing it right

No Lover. First thing students learn: Be slow! Be low! Suffer! Formula: (Hate rejection) = Suffering² What's your mind trained to achieve when teachers test you? Being acknowledged by the teacher. Teacher speak: "Yes, good." You happy. Teacher speak: "No, bad." You unhappy. That's how we train dogs. Yes means success, endorsement, reassurance, respect, love. And isn't that what life is all about, to get as much of this as possible? To achieve your goals and turn your dreams into reality, shouldn't you "count your yesses"? Isn't every yes a step in the right direction? NO! You don't want to become a trained dog! Cause if you're looking for yesses, your betting on the wrong horse, no, let me rephrase that: you're betting on the wrong insect! To catch butterflies, grow caterpillars! Look for nos! Catch nos! Hunt nos! No means failure, rejection, refutation, hatred. More inconvenient truth can not be. Change your failure­ mindset.

„Success is falling seven times and getting up eight."

Love Nos ­ Live To Win

„Failure and success are Siamese twins. If you try to separate them from one another, both might well die." The plain truth is that you will always fail more often than you will succeed. But when you know your quota you can turn that harsh fact into your advantage. If you know 'I tried ten times and failed seven times, and I succeeded three times' then you got a working strategy. Your task is: creating seven failures. The "power of the quota" will do the rest for you. Realize reality: every failure is one step on your way to success. Feel good about every step! Look for nos! Love them! What to do: Get a big bottle. Every time you fail at something, throw a cent into that bottle. When the bottle is full you have achieved your goal.

Lesson Three: Learn not to learn

Learn to learn. What we can't do: Read! Study! Sharpen the saw! Sawing, instead of sharpening the saw. Once a woodcutter was asked why he's trying for several days to cut the tree with the dull blade. He answered: No time to sharpen the saw. That's exactly how schools and universities teach. Do you know how many decades it takes a scientifically superior proven teaching method to find its way into the "modern" school system? No, you don't because until now the modern school system does not exist for enough decades to have incorporated better methods. (Another way of looking at it might be: it just takes a hell of a lot too many decades!). Learn to learn before you want to learn something. That will save you a lot of time. And you remember that old saying: Time is money!

"If a lesson falls in the forrest and no one hears it, there is no lesson."

Learn to learn

"The greatest geniuses have always been the most perseverant students." Our age is the information age. If you have realized the potential that's at your hands this very moment while you're reading these words, if you've really realized this enormous potential, you can manifest it to power. Reward yourself for every useful bit of information that you consume. Get addicted to information. Learn to learn: Mind Mapping and Kinesiology. Learn to read: Speed­ and Photoreading. Learn to listen: The most effective way to learn for most people is to listen to people who are great at what they're talking about. Your brain will create both sequentially structured and holographic neuronal networks of knowledge and understanding. There's a magic potion that allows you to listen effectively: open your mind and use your ears!