No. 11: Zone of your genius, do less summers, school alternatives
Discovering your zone of genius • Less is more for kids' summer • Options to exit the school system
First, some numbers:
8 hours - Average American household is watching more than 7 hours and 50 minutes of TV per day. 1
57% - of active job seekers prefer to work remote full-time. 2
11% - Only 11% of C-level executives believe college grads are “work-ready” 3
What’s your unique Zone of Genius?
Your Zone of Genius is roughly defined as where your interests, passions and skills align—it is your place of harmony. Operating in it means you stop playing their games and start playing yours. It means you start playing games you are uniquely well-suited to win.
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Everyone has a Zone of Genius!
"Genius" here is a relative term, not an absolute. It's not about being top 1% at some craft—it's about the unique space where your relative strengths are accentuated (and relative weaknesses masked).
Furthermore, everyone’s Zone of Genius is different and completely unique to them as an individual. The goal of a founder, startup, or organization, therefore, is to build a team with complementary—not conflicting—Zones of Genius. This is where 1+1=3!
Sounds great—but how do you identify your Zone of Genius and operate more frequently in it?
My simple framework is effectively 4 steps:
Experiment & Collect
Build Your Matrix
Identify Your Zones
Execute
Walk through each step at The Curiosity Chronicle by Sahil Bloom
Key Ingredients of the Most Blissful Summer Activities
When my three children were little, summer was always a time to take advantage of looser schedules and to plan special outings and activities. Once they entered grade school, the freedom and fluidity of summer days became even more precious. Though we weren’t in a position to take expensive vacations, we’d go to shows, zoos, the beach, water parks, and sometimes travel across the country to visit grandparents and cousins.
But for me (and I believe my family would agree), many of our most enjoyable and memorable experiences were the simplest ones. They involved just being together and took place closer to home.
Read further at JanetLansbury.com
Exit the system without leaving school
I talk with parents every week who feel trapped.
They aren’t in a place to take their kids out of school.
Nevertheless, they still see the major problems with the traditional system. They want something better for their kids. But homeschooling takes lots of time.
The good news is that there are other options which can give kids an off ramp out of the system.
Here are 8 ways kids can exit the system without leaving school:
Self-directed learning communities
Forest Schools
Team problem solving
Cultivate creativity at home
Project-based learning
Online steam classes
Foster a love for reading
Alternative schools
Read examples of each alternative at Ana Fabrega’s Fab Fridays newsletter
Till next time…
Information is abundant, it’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. — Naval Ravikant
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/when-did-tv-watching-peak/561464/
https://hiring.monster.com/resources/blog/recruitment-tips/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonbusteed/2019/12/15/importance-of-college-drops-nearly-50-among-young-adults-in-just-six-years/?sh=15b7d2e14b56
Cover: Brett Jordan