9 Things that I learnt from the Real world (never at school)

Why aren't we aware of these things????

1. There Are No Rules.

The people who enforce the rules (creatively speaking here) are the people who don’t have the confidence or the belief that the world is an easel and everyone has a paintbrush.

2. Titles Are Crippling, Not “The Goal”.

Titles are crippling. We have all seen these circumstances, specially in our school life, students are given titles according to certain situations. For eg: we do name a class ranker as Scholar of the class.

Titles encourage you to relax, and let your title speak for you — instead of your skill and knowledge earning you other people’s respect.

But when push comes to shove, it’s the people who have gotten their hands dirty in the trenches you want on your team. Not the ones with a fancy title in front of their names.

3. There Is No “1 Right Way” To Do Anything.

This is a massive disservice school teaches kids — that there is a “right” way and a “wrong” way.
And the name of the game isn’t to do it any one particular way. It’s to understand which one works the best for YOU, and will allow you to maximize your strengths.

But, still schools only teach us that there is a right way for thing: FALSE

There are always million ways to do things: TRUE

4. HOW Is More Important Than WHAT.

HOW you do something is far more important than WHAT you do.

In every industry, there are those who do things with honor, integrity, discipline, passion, and heart, and there are those who do so with malicious intent, or a lack of sincerity, etc.

Think about the people who respect or look up to. You look up to them because of HOW they approach what they do, not WHAT they do.

5. Acceptance Is Overrated.

Remember all those class projects you had to do?
Remember all the times you were told to agree with your classmates for the sake of learning how to ‘work well with others’ ?

That cultivates a bad habit of suppressing your own unique voice and the great debates that spark truly meaningful ideas.

Being accepted is overrated — and the real world taught me that the hard way.

6. Learning How To Learn Is What’s Important.

Reiterating the point here, school would be so much more beneficial if it taught students HOW to learn — not WHAT to learn.

What good is memorising chemistry equations if you don’t fundamentally understand the process of learning?

So many kids struggle as soon as they get out of school because they don’t have anyone telling them anymore, “Here, learn this next.”

They lack direction — because they were never taught the art of learning.

7. Your Passion Is Not A Waste Of Time.

School (and society at large) wants us to believe that there are acceptable hobbies and hobbies that are a waste of time. It’s the reason the first departments to go are always art or music related.
But what you love is NEVER a waste of time. You will always learn more from an interest pulled at from your heart than a pursuit dangled in front of your head.

8. “Success” Does Not Have One Definition.

School likes to measure things — usually in the form of a letter grade beside each subject of study.
It inherently defines “success” as “better” or “higher” or “more.” But that’s just not true. “Success” could mean honest expression, or it could mean presence, or it could mean facing a challenge, failing, and learning a valuable lesson.
Success comes in many different forms. It’s not always about getting the top rank in class.

And finally, the most important one of them all: Who you are is already good enough.

9. It’s OK To Be Different.

School has this funny way of making kids that are “different” feel extra-different, extra-weird, extra-not-normal. But you know what? Get out into the real world, and the most valuable thing you could possibly have is to be “different.”

Everybody wants to stand out. Everybody wants something that’s going to set them apart.

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I'm not opposing any Schooling methods, I just want to say that there are things even outside school, so just try to learn those things too.

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