many of you don't know what you want and where you're going in life.
i'm going to show you a very simple approach to help you find a direction in your life cos you can fill your days for 10 years and wake up one morning to discover that you never really chose what you were running toward.
so take a sheet of paper and answer just 3 questions.
1. what would you like people to say about you at your funeral? pause i want you to really think about it. when you're no longer here, what would you like people to remember about your time on earth?
this answer can show you what matters to you beyond money and other people's opinions.
2. write down your talents. what do you naturally do well, like what you're really good at? why do people come to you for help?
3. write down your passions. what do you love doing so much that you want to keep learning... even when no one is watching?
now look at your sheet.
is there a link between what you'd like to leave behind and what you enjoy doing? these 3 things will start to give you a sense of direction in your life.
bookmark this tweet and do this work this weekend.
I was panicking in 2017 and Kenyans brushed it off. When a whole ministry of education, with professors in it, tells you that children don't need knowledge, is that not something to panic about? But Kenyans agreed with them.
What the child is being taught is skills without knowledge. That's what it means. I even broke down the meaning of competency, which is detached tasks that mean nothing together. So let the kid say goon, cook, whatoover, and they have a reading "skill," but they still can't read. I tried to tell Kenyans that, they told me that knowledge=exams, and they don't want exams. So they want skills without knowledge.
But I've now understood that Kenyans have conceded to being stupid. To be stupid, from Bonhoeffer's definition, is not about intellect. It's sociological phenomenon where power convinces people to give up their right to think and to listen to their own conscience. Facts won't change their minds. That's why I stopped talking of the details of the curriculum. There's no point. Kenyans have decided that they're not listening. Irris warrirris. #CBCisheretostay
the most powerful thing you can do in a situation where you don’t know what the fuck to do is to accept the situation you're in. i mean it. failed? accept it. got rejected? accept it. the thing you've been scared of your whole life actually happened? accept that too.
because what's the alternative? sitting there wishing it went differently? replaying it in your head for the next six months, asking yourself why it had to happen to you? that doesn't change anything, it just keeps you stuck in the exact spot where it happened.
life doesn't always give you the outcome you wanted. people walk away, plans collapse and sometimes you end up in situations you never pictured yourself. it's not a punishment, it's just part of being alive.
and honestly, none of us knows how much time we have left. you could spend your entire life afraid of what might happen and still have zero say over when it does. death has always been part of the deal, so being scared of everything doesn't protect you from anything. it just makes the time you do have feel smaller.
the point is, you don't have to like what happened to accept it. stop arguing with reality, figure out the next small thing you can actually do, and do it. once you stop fighting what already happened, it stops controlling you.
so accept it, not because it's fair but because it's already done. you can't rewrite what happened, but you still get to decide what it turns into. you're still here, which means the story isn't finished. what you do next is the only part that was ever yours to write.