The Desert of Arizona
Sunny 82 Degrees – 6:22 a.m.
Every now and again my kids come in contact with people from within the system who look out at what they are doing with a puzzled look.
Since they are young, the topic they are usually questioned about is school and why they don’t go.
Like the teacher my daughter encountered the other day, who had a good time quizzing her about some meaningless things like the square root of four.
Mind you, she wasn’t asked questions about what her dreams are for her life or how she is feeling or questions about the things she enjoys doing or the people she likes helping or the projects she is working on.
None of that. There’s no place for that in this training. That’s not what the system or the order takers within the system are trained to do.
“Tell me the square root of four or I will be forced to withhold your gold star…”
The system is about the head and training it to be its own enemy. It’s about helping you construct (using your own power, by the way) the prison of your mind that’s supposed to take care of “keeping you in line” for the rest of your life.
She’s a little too busy with other things to be concerned with this level of regurgitation. Lately, she’s been working on her new website, based on a topic she loves, sourcing and hiring an artist to work with her on that, writing a series of articles that will be published, working on figuring out how to get others involved to help with its creation and building a network of partners who can speed up its growth. And that’s just one of her projects.
In school you get quizzes, in life, no quizzes, no tests. That’s all fake. So my daughter is often caught off guard by inquiries like this. She’s accommodating by nature, so she wasn’t going to be rude to the teacher.
But I would be. Not “rude,” mind you. The proper word would be “direct.” I’ve been on the “inside” of that prison system and I’ve been on the outside. And I have no more patience for it. And I have no intention of sugarcoating the truth so as not to “offend” people. That’s not a real thing. It’s another system generated farce to separate and divide. You can’t offend people without their own permission. People do it to themselves.
So when this type of sheep-think enters the world of my children, I take it as my responsibility to help them navigate through it and understand why that level of thinking and living is so inconsequential for anyone who truly wants to LIVE.
“Schooling” children the way the system does is abusive. School is abusive. It kills children’s spirits, it fools them into living in a mental make believe. It slowly trains them to cut themselves off from their own essence and think that’s OK. It’s damaging to children. And most people accept it as “normal.”
Most adults are trained to think it’s normal to have to “find yourself” as you grow through your 20s, 30s, 40s and beyond. That’s not normal. And if we hadn’t been trained to FORGET who we are through the early years, we wouldn’t need the therapy, or the medication, or the alcohol or the affairs or the expensive sports cars or whatever else people use to avoid this pain.
The current definition of normal needs to thrown away because it’s responsible for the world you currently see.
As with all things, there is a good lesson here for anyone in the business world:
There are the people that understand business is not school and there are those who have not yet discovered that.
If you want to succeed in business, forget everything you were brainwashed with in school:
- “It’s not fair…!” has no place in the real world. Fair isn’t something anyone cares about. Fair is an artificial construct made up to distract people and divide them from themselves.
- “I worked so hard and it didn’t work out,” is a meaningless phrase. Hard work has no bearing on things “working out.” Things either work out or they don’t.
- “I hope I’m doing this right!” is a way of thinking that will lead you on a wild goose chase forever. There is NO right way to do it. Some of the greatest achievements on this plane have come from people doing things the “wrong” way. You make up your way and then pay attention to what does or does not happen.
- “I deserve this!” is usually uttered by people who have no understanding of cause and effect. There’s no such thing as “deserve” unless you choose to live under the authority of some external source and a rule of measure outside of yourself. Otherwise, the word “deserve” is irrelevant.
The next step is to choose better principles. Things like:
- There are only results or the lack of results.
- There is only satisfaction with yourself or the lack of it.
- There is either focused intention in pursuit of valuable production or the lack of it.
These are the issues of REAL life. That meaningless playground of the mind that’s connected to nothing but assignments, tasks and judgement really has no bearing outside of that context.
So look at your business. Has your training interfered with your ability to focus on what actually matters?
Are you doing everything “right” but not getting anywhere?
Are you focused on figuring out the “square root of four” while real life is passing you by?
You have the power.