Why did I launch "The Educated Man"?
- Yusuf Bellili
- Sep 12, 2020
- 4 min read
I'm a fourteen, almost fifteen, year old, and so I have made countless interactions with teens my age, and the years of contact provided me with precious observations and conclusions, but we will talk only about one today: the steady decline in the motivation to pursue knowledge, so why is that? Such a question opens the floodgates for a ton of ideas, thus the complete disorder we feel in our brains when we get asked that question. Now, I'm going to mention (and explain) what I see as the main reasons for that. (Solutions in a future post) *The Complete Reliance on a Single Source of Knowledge, Regardless of the Effectiveness / General Disinterest in the Whole of Intellect / Burnout:
Of course, what I meant is school; way too many students (because of laziness which we will discuss in another post) only learn something new when in school, and even when they know that they have put only school or college as their only source of intellect, they still perform at the minimum level as to graduate or don't even bother to... Why? Simple: they see it as unnecessary effort, but we'll have to dig a bit deeper than that to understand their point of view and see if their arguments are better than ours... First of all, we have to study the circumstances and context behind their opinions, so let's start, shall we?... Poor students with a relatively inadequate background most commonly drop out at an early age to join the labour force or do the bare minimum to get a high school degree and maybe nail that office job, but hey: he who chooses the latter either does better than his parents and has a chance to break out into the lower or mid middle class or gets dumped into unemployment, and that fear of risk is what causes a lot to choose inhaling carbon monoxide fumes at the age of nine over attending another pointless French or math session, but in rare cases, the kid is ambitious and clever enough to become rich or wealthy; these kids, I will try to sum them up using one example: Henry Ford. Henry ford is a fellow mechanic who has spent years in mechanic garages, but he has explored enough of the wisdom world to know the two basic principles to get wealthy (except the stock market): either provide a solution for a certain problem or provide a service for a fee, and thus was born the powerful Ford car brand... He had a net worth of 200 billion bloody Dollars (More on his motivation in the next post)... Middle class and lower upper class students, in my opinion, are the group that contains the most ambitious individuals in the case of prestigious jobs; they have a relatively successful pair of parents who did their best to provide for them, and that level of providement is a direct factor in the student's ambition:
-Low: the child gets demoralised and uses it as an excuse to not chase his ambitions or have a purpose in life, or he capitalises on the opportunity and pulls an underdog story (More on this mindset in the next post)
-Medium: lower chance of kid getting demoralised, bigger chance on him or her comfortably becoming a doctor or a lawyer and all that stuff, and their vision for the stars will definitely improve.
-High: it is quite rare to see two doctors' or businessmen's children ending up in the streets, working part-time jobs, pursuing their artistic careers... Bollocks; that's only in the movies. Instead, here are the three realistic results I'm pretty sure will occur: they become doctors with ease or gain a share in the family company with corruption and contacts much more common amongst the high-providers than the medium and low ones, they become spoilt brats with their road in life paved with gold (I'll explain why they will fail in life in the next post) or maybe the parents (too low of a chance) will know how to play the game correctly and raise future deserved millionaires and billionaires.
All that talk, did you notice something with it? It was all about career and money, and none about wisdom, for a reason: when talking about physically having a comfortable life, only money pops up, which explains the complete focus on degrees and business and labour tips and the compete thrashing of "unnecessary" knowledge, primarily because he could spend his spare time recovering from the burnout caused by this chase of materialistic degrees(detailed in a future post)... but spiritually? Depressed individuals who have higher-earning jobs have been reported to be as equal in number, if not more common than depressed individuals with lower-earning jobs. The former are also consuming mental medical pills at a higher rate than the latter, and let's not talk about stress... So how can someone not be rich and be happy or be rich and not happy? Or ultimately, how can we be rich AND happy at the same time? Well, the answer is... Our time's up, wisdom seekers.
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