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Gifted and talented

Posted on by philipdodson

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My daughter was telling me today how her school has just had an assembly with top Universities for only the gifted and talented pupils.

But here are the question to think about, who decides what is ‘gifted’ or ‘talented’? What is the purpose of such a shaming exercise? What affect does this have on the remaining ‘ungifted’ and ‘talentless’?

Why is society unable to recognise that there is a gift within all of us, we are all geniuses in our own way, every single person has a talent.

It is because the education system is all part of the same crock of shit that we have all been fed. They are simply in the business of taking impressionable young children and turning them into compliant cogs for the ‘industrialised’ mass machine. In the process, they cream off the ‘gifted’, aka those likely to regurgitate information best in an examination, to syphon them into higher education and resulting life of slavery to debt and chasing a non-existent dream of wealth and happiness.

The myth makers have us all fooled by this and as we all pass through the ‘mangle’ we have our thoughts, curiosity and differences wrung out of us.

Gifted and talented is not only a con for those labelled it, but it is a shaming and humiliating experience for those not labelled such.

We surely need to question, what is education actually for? What is the outcome we are looking to achieve for the world, the human race?

Surely it is time to stop this indoctrinating process of turning our children into nothing more than compliant drones ready to step onto the treadmill of debt slavery, soulless employment and exchange of a meaningful existence for worthless consumption of trinkets and stuff of no value to anyone.

We don’t need their education and we don’t need to believe in this ‘gifted’ hoax.

Keep going

Posted on by philipdodson

Some days you feel that all the effort and hard work is not paying off, a couple things don’t go your way, you seem to hit all the red lights, the train is delayed and so on.

It happens like this in life sometimes, however, we are programmed to think that this is all part of some catastrophe and it only reaffirms the ‘truths’ we tell ourselves. An almost ‘see I told you, I knew you’d fail’ and other such pessimistic responses in our heads occur or even from those around us. We are conditioned to think that worst will happen from an early age in life.

The truth is, the world isn’t against us, people aren’t against us, and some days, shit happens. But 99.999999% of the time it is shit that we can deal with, that passes and often it teaches us to improve, remodel and get further ahead on our journey.

However, if we spent more of our time recognising the great things that happen every day, then we’d notice the ‘hiccups’ a lot less.

The truth is, stick with the plan, keep going. Rovio, you might not have heard of them if they’d quit, were a struggling gaming app developer in Finland. 5 years in they thought this isn’t going well, but someone started to sketch some Angry Birds, and 2 years later more than a billion people had downloaded the app.

There’s always the instant gratification route of the modern business culture, that says ‘fail fast’, ‘pivot’ and move on. Society often does not encourage patience as dissatisfaction feeds consumption and that makes money.

But the truth is, often the best things in life or business, happen to ones who persevere, who keep going, no matter what comes up. Show some patience, bad days pass and are rarely as bad as they seem.

Always stay true to what you believe.