Being an entrepreneur is not about taking risk, it’s about eliminating all risks. 

However, most of us have a distorted notion about risk.

A steady pay cheque isn’t necessarily risk free. It could prove to be the most risky option for your long term future. 

Just like a steady return from a back fixed deposit looks safe but the moment you take the inflation into account, the safe deposit becomes a sure shot way to lose money over long term.

So risk doesn’t mean absence of volatility. 

Working on something, even for few hours a week, that you love, that you find meaningful is the first step toward reducing the risk of ending up with an unfulfilled life.

To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. ~ Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

It is now accepted that existing models of education, with their emphasis on acquisition of technical skills, the pursuit of bookish knowledge and the focus on examinations and grades – all acts of “putting in what is not there”- have only helped create a pool of skilled labour.

Is this why we educate our children?

Is education, as popular perceptions go, merely a means to a career and a “successful” life?

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I recently found this inspiring message on the Internet. It is sometimes attributed to George Carlin, Jeff Dickson, the Dalai Lama, and Dr. Bob Moorehead.

Whoever the author is, what you’re going to read below is a wonderful message that I am sure will inspire you to live a wonderful life ahead.

The paradox of our time in history is that
we have taller buildings but shorter tempers;
wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less;
we buy more but enjoy less

We have bigger houses and smaller families,
more conveniences, but less time;
we have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge, but less judgement;
more experts, yet more problems,
more medicine, but less wellness.

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Our vision of the ideal world can best be described as “Vasudheiva Kutumbakam”, the world as one family, a world inhabited by human beings with inherent goodness, living together in harmony with their fellow human beings and other living and non-living things that inhabit our planet.

This is far removed from the state of the world today – no illusions about that.

Centuries of conditioning and the pursuit of materialism in the name of progress have reduced man to a greedy, self-serving, calculative, manipulative being.

The world itself is full of conflict, and our response – religions, political systems, educational systems – are all means of escape from the suffering arising out of this conflict.

We have surrendered the capability to think and act for ourselves, and are ever willing to submit to authority in any form – social, political, religious, spiritual.

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No books, no scriptures, no science can ever imagine the glory of the Self that appears as man, the most glorious God that ever was, the only God that ever existed, exists, or ever will exist. I am to worship, therefore, none but myself. I worship my Self. ~ Swami Vivekananda.

If only our policymakers and educationalists knew the real meaning of these words, the world would have been different.

The fact that every country, every institution and every organization is focusing so hard to use the information-gathering brain of the humans just to profit from it rather than harnessing the energy and intellect of individuals to change the world for better, is hurting the overall rhythm and balance of our planet.

Real education focuses not on information, knowledge or exams but on overall development of the self – the real thinker and doer.

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