Today I have been sat talking with Saranne, who is the daughter of my coach and friend Debbie.
Saranne, left school, disillusioned with education and being person not cut out to comply, she works hard to support her passion, which is fashion blogging and videos. She has an amazing talent, that sadly the education system would have never recognised or known how to help her to grow that.
I have known Saranne for a few months through the Mastermind Group that Debbie runs and I have been impressed by her enthusiasm, by her creativity and by how focused she is for a 19 year old. So much so, that I am working with her to produce a video for my coworking business.
Her approach is fresh, different and uncluttered by years of being forced to comply within the system.
My son also, disillusioned with school, left and after a spell working in a supermarket, is now working with me as an apprentice, learning all about the business. He’s just 17 and while I was away at a coworking camp, he looked after the business without any hitches at all.
Again, he has a huge amount of talent, ideas and ability, that the education could not bring out or recognise. He was mocked about leaving school, many saying he would amount to nothing if he dared to walk away from the system.
Both of them are on their own journeys to create their own future, to be different and both have dared to step away from the system and rebel.
It is important to realise just how much talent young people have, and if they stay in the system, that talent is simply replaced with trained compliance.
The world needs rebels, to challenge the status quo and to create more than the standard homogenised junk, that is endlessly churned out by the industrialised world.
Philip Dodson 