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We have no problem taking the to school to learn theory and become book smart. But we are missing out on teaching them one aspect of life that is absolutely critical in their success, especially in the changed landscape of life. Listen to this.
📢 New #Podcast!! 1598. Why Entrepreneurship Must Be COMPULSORY in Kindergarten All Through #Purpose #Entrepreneurship
And I mean it. The problem with us is that we think all that can be learnt must be theory and must be examinable. We think that learning is about principles and concepts. I believe that we do life daily entrepreneurially...and yet this is the most neglected skill to be imparted in young ones. We instead make Maths and Sciences compulsory and more than half of the population will never use that knowledge in life...listen to this.
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I know this is controversial. There are some subjects that are made compulsory in school even though not everyone has the intellectual capacity to grasp them fully. This is not true with entrepreneurship. It affects us daily, whether employed or running our own businesses. It needs to be emphasized in raising street smart children. Listen to this.
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When I asked a top journalist in the country his opinion on the subject matter, he said that he would rather have both street smart and book smart people around him. Now, we have no problem with churning out book smart people. What we need is to champion street smart ones. Listen to this.
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One of the worst things we can do for our children is to feed them with theories without necessarily showing them how to make connections of things in the world today. A street smart person knows the power of connections. Listen to this.
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This is perhaps one of the greatest pillars of raising a street smart person: teaching them how to make the most of connections in life. There was once a street smart person with no degree that was a campaign manager for a president of the United states. He knew about connections in life. Listen to this.
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Placing Street Smartness and Book Smartness together, those who would select Book Smartness invariably would think that there is no book reading in street smartness. That philosophy has been propagated for decades on end, but it is wrong. Listen to this.
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There is something that is totally ignored the world over in raising children through the traditional book smart education system. This is not to say that the education is completely off on it, but the way it is structured, it doesn't revolve around the most important raw materials that humans have. Listen to this.
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Their school opened a week earlier than others because they are on a different curriculum. They are also involved in Children's Church which had a performance that needed them to be present for practice...but during the school hours. I sent them to practice. Listen to this.
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To be street smart, we need to understand the importance of people. Not everyone is an extrovert but that doesn't negate this critical pillar in raising street smart children. Listen to this.
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To teach children to be be street smart needs to start by teaching them to be survivors. They need to know things like making it in tough situations, improvisations, mental toughness and so on.
Here is now we can help them. Listen to this.
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We live in a world that needs these three components I talk about on this podcast: Purpose, Productivity, and Resilience. The question is: Where do they get these things from? Is it possible that they can obtain them from being booksmart? Listen to this.
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The problem with raising children on theories alone is that at the end of the day, when they need to face the real world, they will be stuck. There is a place for books and being book smart, but that place is becoming smaller and smaller by the day. Listen to this.
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Street smart or book smart? Street smart of course. But how exactly do you make it that your children become street smart? Simple. Decide that book smart is not working anymore, at least on its own. What do you do next? Listen to this.
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Parents who suffered at times normally make inner vows that their children will never suffer a single day. That is something dangerous. Children need be more street smart today than ever before, and for that to happen, we need to teach them to be survivors. Listen to this.
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I am watching a movie titled "Something the Lord Made." It is about a black man in 1930 during the dark times of racial segregation that managed to become a surgeon without necessarily being "book smart".
Unfortunately, that is just one story over many decades. We need a critical mass for this, and I believe it will happen. Parents will need to be on top of this.
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Raising children can be quite an emotive subject as it is a heart issue. Most parents are passionate about what methods to use to raise children. Even if they are wrong in whatever method they use, they are wrong sincerely. Listen to this.
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A choice has been made as you might very well be aware of if you have been following the series. I would rather a streetsmart child than a booksmart child, that is if I am forced to select one of the two. Here are my reasons. Listen to this.
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Potential is such an important ingredient in life...and also one of the most neglected things. That's why, according to Myles Munroe, the richest place is the graveyard. So how do we know which system deploys potential more? Listen to this.
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Today, in most countries, what is most touted is book smartness. Increasingly though, we are seeing how one-winged it has been and how much we cannot fully rely on it. Today, street smartness is becoming a universal language. Listen to this.
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Knowing what I now know, if I am given a chance to choose between being street smart and being book smart, I would easily choose to be streetsmart. To be book smart, which is generally touted, one will take at least a decade and a half. Streetsmart? Listen to this.
📢 New #Podcast!! 1578. What's Being Street Smart Vs Being Book Smart? #Purpose
We need to do this. We need to find out what it means to be street smart. Does it mean that one is totally un-book smart? And if one is book smart, does it mean that they are totally un-street smart? Important questions to ponder.
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This is an important question in the present world we live in. I even can project that it will be one of the most important questions to answer in the interim and in the medium term. Book smart of street smart?
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This presupposes that the selection between street smart and book smart has already been made. Or has it? Anyway, we have no problem raising book smart children we do that all day long for decades now. How about Street smart children?
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You will know one when you see them. It will not even be theory. You will automatically feel the presence, impact and aura of a purpose-driven leader. The flip side of the coin is also true...but the saddest part is that most of what we see as leaders, are in the middle. Not hot, not cold. Sad.
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I will say it again. Leadership has been so much corrupted that we need to talk about purpose as a key ingredient of leadership. Honestly, the two are inseparable. They shouldn't even be synonyms. One should simply infer the other. Here is how to do it.
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How can you identify purpose-driven leadership? All around us, we have what we call 'leaders'. Probably we also are 'leaders' in our own rights. However, is our leadership purpose-driven? Should we even separate the two. Shouldn't it be implied?
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As already stated, we have more impostors the world over than we have leaders. One of the defining things about impostors is that they are selfish, self-centered and have self-preservation written all over them. Listen to this.
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You will easily see a purpose driven leader as opposed to an impostor. There are several markers for this, but one of the most powerful ones is how a real leader handles potential around her. Listen to this.
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Leadership is an interesting subject. Whereas it is supposed to bey synonymous with purpose and service, we have made it a title thing, a position thing. We have more impostors than we have leaders. Listen to this.
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We give them flowers and break records every time we celebrate Mothers' Day. Why? There is a great leadership lesson that we can learn from them. Listen to this.
