What's essential to learn that's not taught in school?
3707 sats \ 71 comments \ @birdeye21 16 Aug 2023 meta
The study of money of course.
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934 sats \ 7 replies \ @k00b 16 Aug 2023
How to provide value without being told what to do.
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71 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 16 Aug 2023
True, but creativity isn't distributed evenly throughout the population. For instance, you got more than most.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 16 Aug 2023
How dare you compliment me. 😉
Creativity isn't evenly distributed but I think it is suppressed. I also might be projecting.
I'm also not sure providing value independently requires creativity either. I haven't listened to enough Jordan Peterson podcasts to know. 😆
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 16 Aug 2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 16 Aug 2023
Someone may be creative as an artist, musician etc., but not necessarily create things other want to buy, and that doesn't take away from their creativity. I think it's more about an entrepreneurial spirit. Creativity can help, but so do marketing and other skills.
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113 sats \ 0 replies \ @BBitcoinUSA 16 Aug 2023
I like this one because the message in most schools is “do what you’re told, study hard, get good grades, and then you’ll be successful.” I wish they would teach us “how to want to learn” or how to want to provide value, without anyone telling you to. I think this falls mostly on parents but the school system absolutely doesn’t reinforce it at all
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 16 Aug 2023
A never ending learning journey
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @saltykate 17 Aug 2023
Yes see the need and take the initiative to fill it
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299 sats \ 5 replies \ @carlosfandango 16 Aug 2023
Critical thinking and the ability to have a measured / considered debate.
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41 sats \ 3 replies \ @orthzar 16 Aug 2023
As far as debating goes, these two things are perhaps the most important:
  • take notes about everything the other person says
  • address every point the person brings up, otherwise you agree with it
So many debates are just two people talking past each other, not addressing what each other says. That is a waste of time for the debaters and audience.
A third bit of advise: don't debate someone who doesn't do the above two things.
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41 sats \ 2 replies \ @tommyedz_crp 16 Aug 2023
I believe it's also OK to not take a stance either way, it's humble to acknowledge various perspectives (not opinions) without having to choose a side. Giving ourselves a moment to digest and muse, and additionally, allowing the other party to reflect on another perspective without prejudice of being told that are wrong/incorrect or invalid.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @carlosfandango 16 Aug 2023
That is a really valid point. I detest the ‘if you are not for you must be against’ argument. I feel like saying; ‘maybe I am just working it out in my head rather than letting you and your bias do it for me.’
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @tommyedz_crp 16 Aug 2023
Think it can be heavily tied into the game theory concept, there's a natural defence mechanism against aggression we've adopted due to the nature of the beast.
I believe it's what we are truly challenging here and now. And evidently have been for a long time.
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24 sats \ 0 replies \ @MisterCoins 16 Aug 2023
Shit, they teach the opposite of critical thinking in most public schools.
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144 sats \ 1 reply \ @premitive1 16 Aug 2023
Learning to learn.
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13 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 16 Aug 2023
that's really what education is supposed to be all centered around, but instead it's learning how to be diligent
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254 sats \ 2 replies \ @m00ninite 16 Aug 2023
Empathy. Something a lot of people on Twitter seem to be lacking.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SpaceHodler 16 Aug 2023
But can it be taught? Or, had they been thought it in school, would there be more of it on Twitter?
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60 sats \ 0 replies \ @m00ninite 16 Aug 2023
That's a tough one, and it def wouldn't work on everyone, but some of it is better than nothing. When I was in middle school, some of my classes had a big focus on "tolerance" of people in different walks of life than you. Honestly, tolerating people is the bare minimum we can ask. We don't have to force endorsement or anything like that.. Just help people think from others' perspective, take a walk in their shoes.
A total lack of this has really fucked us
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204 sats \ 0 replies \ @1fbeb16d5b 16 Aug 2023 freebie
Trusting yourself and act accordingly to what you think that's right for you and at the same time having empathy towards others once you're acting towards that goal. Also that being empathic doesn’t mean you owe anyone your sympathy, those are two different things.
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158 sats \ 0 replies \ @Winitober 16 Aug 2023
How to read a contract.
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231 sats \ 0 replies \ @sahil 16 Aug 2023
Taxes (TďźżT)
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156 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 16 Aug 2023
Sovereignity All books from mises.org And basically all lies about govs, states, laws etc all listed in my guide https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/natural-law-and-bitcoin
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70 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 16 Aug 2023
Cooking.
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110 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 16 Aug 2023
  1. History. Not names and dates but the lessons of history.
Of course if we are talking about so called public education this will never happen because the lesson of history is one of the State abusing the people. Public schools are working as they are designed to work.
  1. Logic: Basic reason
  2. Ethics
  3. Philosophy
  4. Economics: Real economics not the crap they teach in college.
I am not aware of many schools or curriculum that teach these all of these things but as a parent you can teach them or at a minimum expose them to your kids.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 16 Aug 2023
one thing i'm thankful for is the econ course i had back in high school. First principles thinking teacher and he really peaked my interest in econ, i don't know if bitcoin would've clicked as easily for me without that class
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82 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 16 Aug 2023
This is going off on a tangent, but I had lots of education and a lot of it was useless. I remember in law school being told that you wouldn't learn anything about practicing law until you got your first job. That was definitely true. Law school was mostly geared towards passing the bar- rent seeking at its finest.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @BBitcoinUSA 16 Aug 2023
This is the best way to describe it. Absolutely learned very little in school compared to on the job training / learning. Just another way they get us to voluntarily walk into indentured servitude before even being allowed to interview for a job with above average pay
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 16 Aug 2023
  • How to not be a dick.
  • Personal finances.
  • Taxes.
  • How to win friends and influence people.
  • Critical thinking.
  • How to wait before others leave the train before you board.
  • The fact that people care about the value you bring to society, not how hard you worked.
And so many other basic things...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 16 Aug 2023
common sense isnt so common
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39 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitcoiner1 16 Aug 2023
Cooking, home economics and the importance of compound interest.
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38 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheWildHustle 16 Aug 2023
Praxeology
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35 sats \ 0 replies \ @MisterCoins 16 Aug 2023
Firearm safety and marksmanship.
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 16 Aug 2023
Nutrition. Basic nutrition. Diet is such a demonised word, yet in truth your diet is just what you eat. And it should be personalised to you. Understanding the effects of what you eat on your body. Would be of huge benefit to everyone.
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52 sats \ 2 replies \ @Storyteller 17 Aug 2023
How to become a business owner. How to become an investor.
They only teach you how to become an employee.
Schools are extensions of the industrial system. That system needed obedient workers. Who could do what they were told.
That system is still in place although we are not anymore in the industrial system. We are in the information system now.
They also don’t teach you anything about assets and liabilities.
Because you are actually their asset. This school system is thus tied to the Fiat system of banks.
Because you don’t know the difference between an asset and liability you buy a car the moment you graduate. You take a credit card to go on holidays you deserved. And you take a mortgage because you think your house is an asset.
All these are liabilities for you and assets for the bank.
So you become a worker, with liabilities in a Fiat world where the money is inflated.
This means your property rights are being taken away. Through money printing.
So all your labour in this system cannot be saved. The labour is like energy that leaks away from you. You have no battery to save it. Like the sun giving you energy but you have to keep working because you cannot save.
Then you find bitcoin. The perfect battery.
They won’t ever teach you about bitcoin.
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7 sats \ 1 reply \ @Sasquatch 17 Aug 2023
I agree. When my eyes were opened to the fiat tyranny I became angry. What the U.S. and France in particular do to Europe is just another form of colonization. When that system is threatened they go to war, and when they want to expand the franchise, they go to war. This is the true center of power, the money printer. Without it, they must get consent.
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @Sasquatch 17 Aug 2023
I meant to say Africa, not Europe.
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45 sats \ 0 replies \ @2bithits 16 Aug 2023
Vipassana meditation
Learning how to observe the mind early in life would be a blessing
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35 sats \ 0 replies \ @cecil 17 Aug 2023
the bible, in western nations it should be required reading for it's cultural and literary influence if nothing else.
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @teodor 16 Aug 2023
In my country (RO) the school teach nothing about finances and money. Even financial faculties don't say the truth about it... That's why the majority of the population is financially illiterate and poor... 🤕 🙈
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @saltykate 17 Aug 2023
Critical thinking
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121 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 16 Aug 2023
Law - juris diction https://www.educatedinlaw.org/ https://www.annavonreitz.com/ https://onestupidfuck.com/ https://joelbsam.wixsite.com/info https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKPqlokNqKtGAiZ6VXzNd2g/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/JamesCLovett/videos https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/natural-law-and-bitcoin and so on... Can't be free without this knowledge
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @iguano 16 Aug 2023
Personal finance.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @stooge 16 Aug 2023
The virtues and the vices opposed
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @stooge 16 Aug 2023
MORAL VIRTUES INTEGRAL PARTS OF PRUDENCE (KNOWING THE MEANS TO ATTAIN THE END)
  1. Memory (Memoria): the Virtue by Which One Remembers the Right Things Pertaining to the Action and its Circumstances
  2. Understanding (Intellectus): the Ability to Grasp Practical Principles and the Nature of Various Situations
  3. Docility (Docilitas): Ability to Be Lead and Take Counsel from Others
  4. Shrewdness (Solertia): Quickness in Arriving at the Means to the End
  5. Reason (Ratio): Ability to Reason about Practical Matters; the Ability to Apply Universal Practical Principles to Particular Situations
  6. Foresight (Providentia): Ability to See Future Outcomes of Actions Based upon past Experience
  7. Circumspection (Circumspectio): Virtue by Which One Keeps Track of One’s Circumstances
  8. Caution (Cautio): Application of Knowledge of the past to Action in Order to Avoid Impediments and Evils (Credit to: Fr. Chad Ripperger)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stooge 16 Aug 2023
Vices Contrary to Prudence
  1. Precipitation: the Vice in Which One Does Not Take Counsel (Results in Acting Too Quickly)
  2. Inconsideration: the Vice in Which One Does Not Judge Which Means Is the Best among the Various Means Arrived at During Counsel
  3. Inconstancy: a Vice in Which One Does Not Command or Do the Action Which Has Been Counseled and Judged as the Best
  4. Negligence: Failure to Take Counsel or a Failure to Do What One Should When He Ought
  5. Carnal Prudence: the Vice in Which One Applies One’s Reason to Arrive at Means to Attain Created Goods Which Are Seen as One’s Final End
  6. Craftiness (Astutia): Industry in Not Using the Right or True Means to an End
  7. Guile (Dolus): the Habit of Deceit (Usually in Words)
  8. Fraud (Fraus): the Habit of Deceit (Usually in Deeds) (Credit to: Fr. Chad Ripperger)
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @arcanox 16 Aug 2023
Basic economics, basic nutrition (maybe its' a blessing in disguise that we are not being taught about the american food pyramid though, that thing is disgusting), proper scientific analysis and skepticism in its most basic form are just the first things that come to mind.
UItimately, our enemies are not interested in our education, so it is pointless to talk about what education is missing from our institutions.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @ryu 16 Aug 2023
Taxes, not because I feel people should pay them. But because it would allow you to find out the legal minimum you can pay the government to still fuck you anyway.
Alternatively, move to a country where taxes are either a non-issue or actually serve its stated purpose (improving a country's public and private services).
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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @tommyedz_crp 16 Aug 2023
Few things straight away come to mind:
  1. Concepts of currency/money (we we're taught "business" - live in the UK)
  2. Game Theory.
  3. Information and Data (Parent/Child etc).
Some of my favourite teachers would spend whole lessons telling fantastic stories and meandering off the curriculum pathway.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 16 Aug 2023
Concepts of currency/money (we we're taught "business" - live in the UK)
Of course they teach you how to play the game they want to you play, not how to exit it.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @birdeye21 OP 16 Aug 2023
game theory's a big one. It also seems to come up often in my talks with newcoiners, when wondering why bitcoin is "the chosen one"
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @tommyedz_crp 16 Aug 2023
Yeah it's sadly hidden behind a complete narrative here (and elsewhere of course) that strays into a "gambling" problem.
I studied last year Independant Chip Model mechanics in Poker (particularly MTT's) and to many, Poker and Slots/Roulette may as well be the same "fools" game. Especially to our older generation.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 16 Aug 2023
Personal finance Basic statistics Writing resumes/CV's Interviewing Self motivation
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @stackeraw 16 Aug 2023
Every thing that leads to selfsoverty. selfdefence voluntarism privacy cooking nature sience/chemistry ecetra.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Winitober 16 Aug 2023
Austrian Economics
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Muuny 17 Aug 2023
There's never one answer to any question. If you are given tests or are challenged on something, and they tell you there's only one answer it is not just wrong, but politically important to someone somewhere.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0260378aef 17 Aug 2023
Not really true in mathematics or hard sciences.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Sasquatch 17 Aug 2023
Logic. Finance. Character
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @sandagoriate 17 Aug 2023
  • Real Medicine (Serious medicine or natural ingredients that run after CURE - not drugs dependency)
  • Real Nutrition (Good quality nutrition info)
  • Real Economics (sound money - Bitcoin)
  • Good Vibes Mindset (we can do everything - let's build - let's support this)
  • Power the Spirit (became strong person when you prepare/enforce your mind/spirit)
  • Individuous > Collective
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcointerest 17 Aug 2023
I would say: budgeting, being able to work in groups, and critical thinking.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 17 Aug 2023
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @wikparclones 17 Aug 2023
Join the community and also being volunteer. Learn from it and you will be taught! ⚡
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @netstatic 17 Aug 2023
How to resolve conflict and get along with others
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19 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 16 Aug 2023
What is essential is invisible to the eyes -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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14 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zepasta 16 Aug 2023
Basicly everything else that isn't taught in school currently.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @guts 16 Aug 2023
Not only what to think and how, but why.
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @benthecarman 16 Aug 2023
Basically everything you know, I feel like most things I learned in school are just fun facts, not anything useful that I use day to day
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @erict875 18 Aug 2023
Like everything...? 🤷‍♂️
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @l0k18 17 Aug 2023
That the government is run by a bunch of inbred, entitled assholes who give privileges to family and treat the rest of us like cattle to be worked, and then slaughtered.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kdnolan 17 Aug 2023
Which school?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinosphere 17 Aug 2023
What an open question... If they teach it in school you absolutely shouldn't learn it. You'll get pumped with propaganda that way.
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