Why Having Opinions is The Most Dangerous Thing You Have

And why people will always look for you

Educational system is a failure. You may argue “But it provides great support to people, it is useful for our careers and ambitions”, and I will agree with you.

No, it’s not the end of the article. School is a failure for people like me.

Like religions, schools have created a place where people had to go to learn something “meaningful” for their lives. But as religions, you never learnt how to think by yourself. And that’s a problem.

Asking Why Is a Threat to Schools

Curious people are tempted to put aside their curiosity with sayings like “Curiosity killed the cat”. But for who knows the cats’ world, they have nine lives, so it’s not a big deal to lose one.

Curiosity sparks from the understanding of a world that is kind of hidden or undiscovered, and schools have always tried to delete that understanding indoctrinating people instead of letting them use their wonderful brain power.

Asking why, as science demonstrates, is a trigger for defensiveness. What does it mean?

People, when faced with a why question, feel like they’re questioned in their deep worlds, which means a total exposure to your vulnerabilities. And we know vulnerabilities are things we better hide instead of show, right?

Yes, if you are having a fight. But being vulnerable and accept that you have flaws, puts you under a total new and wonderful light.

In school, this way of living accepting your mistakes is totally unaccepted and being social is something you should limit to your free time instead of rewarding this action. What about your curiosity then?

Asking why to a system that’s promoting individuality instead of groups, puts the whole system in danger.

That’s something I have been told during my last years in high school: “Your behavior is a danger to the Italian state”. And I was aware that my deep curiosity for the world’s and people’s mechanics were a real issue to people who just needed me to be close-minded as they were.

Having Experience Means Knowing

Knowledge has always been a treasure to Governments in ancient history. It was incredibly crucial for the wealth and survival of empires.

But now, we have tended to be just filled with information, left once school finished, to understand the relevance of what we have learned.

I was the bad guy. And most of the teachers tried to pull me down, but never accomplished in this mission. Why? (Defensiveness? No, I am ok with myself)

Because I had a life that was going on because of me, and I knew that I didn’t need them. If I were to learn something insightful about human psychology, I just had to go out of the classroom and start a conversation.

History? Well, there was my grandmother. Writing? I had so many things to write, but guess what? I had only to choose between topics that were useless. Thinking? Ops, there is no thinking at school, that’s why I was often outside of it.

The list can go on forever, but what really matters in life is the ability to connect with people and be real. No, this is not a kind of motivational speech where you should definitely abandon your studies. You need to study, but more than that you need to live the real life.

Outside of those walls, there are people, many good and many bad, but if you do not spot the difference and understand who you can trust and who you cannot trust, you will pass your first years after school being used by people and scammed.

It happens to anyone in this life: the difference is when this must happen.

Experience teaches you more than knowledge. Experience is dangerous because you can have a choice, you do not need to trust people to act: you are your own master. And that’s what school hates: potential teachers.

Imagine people like me teaching stuff: it would be both revolutionary and unconventional. I would like to let people live real life experiences from the beginning, teaching them how to live life and how to apply the knowledge they are taught during lessons.

Experience is also what companies ask you when looking for workers: if you can skip the long process of indoctrination, and be taught how to do things form the beginning, wouldn’t it be better?

Use Your Damn Cat Lives

Being curious is what has made the world so wonderful: people need to doubt the current state of things and looking for something different in order to improve. This is what life is: a discovery.

But if you always wait someone to tell you how things are, you are going to have what you need, but not the exciting moments before knowing something through experience.

Consider reducing your time reading self-help stuff and use your precious time to make yourself a decent human being, capable of being mistaken. Your future-self will be brighter and the percentage of errors you can make will drop.

The right mistakes can bring you to the right answers, so you better try to be wrong more often. This is how we grow, this is how we live.

Thanks for reading, you definitely made a big mistake until now.

Oh, by the way, these are three articles I really enjoyed. They will challenge your knowledge of the world, and will make you more curious… So check them out and give them love. See ya!