The Class I Wish I Had in School – Get Busy Living

(My course, Get Busy Living in 30 is now open again. See the end of the post for details.)

When I was in school, I took a lot of classes that I knew I would never use. Calculus? Physics? English literature? For some, it was an important class, but for the majority of us, it was stuff we would never use again.

I wish they would have taught classes that would have been more useful to the majority of students. A class that we didn’t think we needed at the time, but ten years later, we’d think, “I’m so glad they taught that class.”

Maybe like a class titled “Life Lessons: The Honest Truth”.

I would love to be a guest lecturer for a day to high school and college kids and tell them about “real life”. Instead schools don’t teach us this stuff and that’s why there are 30 year olds who refuse to grow up and act like life owes them something.

I was one of those. When I turned 30, I was more lost and confused than when I was 20. My life was going backwards. I knew how much my life sucked, but I didn’t want to deal with the responsibility of putting my life in my own hands.

It’s a lot of power. What if I made the wrong choices? What if I can’t decide? I would have preferred someone else make the tough decisions for me. Despite being an adult, I didn’t act like one. What I was doing was waiting for someone else to come along and point me in the right direction.

Wasn’t gonna happen. I now realize there were plenty of people out there willing to help me, but they weren’t actively looking for me. They were just there.

I had to seek help myself.

I’m not going to blame the school system for not teaching me this. I’m not going to blame my parents. They were just focused on wanting me to make good grades and going to a good college like typical Asian parents.

It would be nice if schools now taught kids real valuable life lessons. Took me till I was 32 to understand the real truth.

My big realization

I’m about to share with you the one piece of advice that made me realize that I better start taking shit seriously. It’s related to the Albert Einstein quote about the definition of insanity. This is something I thought to myself over and over again.

If what you have been doing isn’t working, you need to change. Otherwise your future will be a repeat of the same old shit.