Student of Life
I defined 5 steps in the entrepreneurial journey that I think most people go through. The distribution is a pyramid and only a small percentage of people make it through each stage.
(1) No Desire —intrinsic motivation suppressed (usually by the school system) (2) Desire to make an impact and be entrepreneurial, but uncertainty about how [...]
Long awaited, I finally have the video after wrangling with file format difficulties, technical workarounds and trips that left my time in front of the computer fragmented.
This is only my 2nd or 3rd public speech I’ve given, excluding participation on panels, but I hope to do more in the future. Unfortunately due to time constraints [...]
Spend 80% of your time on your passions, improving your core skills. There are plenty of things you can find that simply meet the “interesting” criteria.
The argument that colleges expose you to things you wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to is not that compelling a value proposition because it is not very hard to find new [...]
“Visioning” From the Force For the Future Blog:
We believe the larger long term direction we’re heading towards is becoming the liaison for “Real World University”, the best learning environment of all, where passion, learning and work are all fluid and intimately related. Making an impact and creating value in the workplace is increasingly dependent on [...]
I attended the San Francisco Supernova Mixer Tuesday night, where John Hagel and John Seely Brown from Deloitte’s Center for the Edge presented their research on the Big Shift– “a major new effort to track the real impacts of what we call the Network Age. ” My copious notes on their talk are posted [...]
I find the constant worry about grades quite pathetic, as if your future was dependent on their outcome. Okay they kind of are if you are planning to build your life around the perks of the educational system. But if you’re willing to put in the effort you might consider redirecting that same effort out [...]
It’s fine to go down the academic route, but it’s unfair for all young people to be forced to go down that route. We should get to decide if we want to do academic learning at an early age. Alternatively you should just be able to do stuff, make things happen and be an entrepreneur. [...]
Over the weekend I spoke at the World Future Society on a panel entitled “Youth Can Change the World”. I talked about how every young person can make an impact but that we need to change how we think about education in order to open up that possibility for more people.
The most difficult part of [...]
First I recommend you read the previous post on this subject.
Concurrently to that facebook discussion I was having this discussion over Instant Messenger as a result of this tweet: Hypothesis: Future of education is the structure of unschooling combined with resources of a Harvard/Stanford. What do you think?
Cory
i find ur stastus interesting
do u mean something like [...]
Earlier this morning I posted this statement on twitter: Hypothesis: Future of education is the structure of unschooling combined with resources of a Harvard/Stanford. What do you think?
Almost immediately engaged conversation began in number of places. I wanted to share that discussion in a more open space. (Here is part 2)
Below is our facebook conversation lightly [...]
