The Desert of Arizona
Clear 42 Degrees – 6:53 a.m.
It took me a long time to figure out just how much of business really has nothing to do with “business.”
Much of that time, I was in a constant state of nearly drowning in self-development material all focused on telling me how I “should” be with very little actually helping me figure out why I was the way I was.
If you’ve ever wondered why there are so many service providers who can’t stop being “order takers” for their clients, today I’m going to show you the reason.
It’s because virtually everything that’s been installed during the years of our childhood has been created for just that purpose. That’s a happy thought isn’t it? But how about some proof!
Far be it from me to plagiarize the “conspiracy theory” term made up by the “powers that be” in an attempt to ostracize any sheep who might bleat about something not congruent with the official “story,” so let’s not go there! Instead, let’s get the truth from a “well-respected” official, shall we?
How about from the man after which Harvard named its Honor Lecture in Education? Surely that should do.
As it turns out, he wrote a book some years ago that outlines the real purposes of schooling. Notice I didn’t say “learning.” I said “schooling,” which is an entirely different beast.
If you want all the info, you can see John Taylor Gatto walk through The Six Purposes of Schooling from this book I’m talking about.
If it doesn’t make your skin crawl, watch it again until it does.
I’ll pull out one of the purposes as outlined by this “respected man” in education from the early 20th century, Alexander James Inglis:
“Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority.”
Now that doesn’t have a lot to do with reading, writing or ‘rithmatic now does it?
But this is what you’re up against.
If you allow this training to go unchecked, you lose.
If you undo this, you win on many levels.
Hopefully the whole system will just collapse under its own weight (it already is), because it’s pure evil. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
So, if you want to remove the “order taker program” from within you:
You start by catching yourself doing it. Then you start by changing yourself. You WILLFULLY resist that temptation (and emotional response you get) to blindly follow authority unless you choose to do it.
Once you are able to stare it in the face long enough, it loses its power over you.
That’s when you are free. You’ll know because the other sheep will call you crazy.
Then you practice this new habit of becoming your own authority and making everyone else EARN theirs before you start listening to them.
Just a word of warning. When you do this, you’re going to hear a little voice that says things like, “You can’t do that! You can’t just go making up the rules for yourself! You’ll get in trouble!”
Who do you think put that voice there?
You have a choice to be free or be a slave. Make the choice or it will be made for you.