Questions, I believe, are a powerful tool to uncover something. And a very powerful question to uncover what someone cares about in the world is to ask what pisses you off about the condition of the world? What is it that if you had the power to, would change?

When I ask this question from myself, I somehow get very passionate about some dormant opinions of mine.

See I have been very big on education. I believe that is the single force that can elevate lives of people and as a result, it is what has been one of the most meaningful factors in pushing the human race forward. And I don’t even mean the conventional K-12 education. I mean the act of education. Learning. Study. And mastery. Education in the literal sense, straight from the dictionary.

So for that matter, education can never end after formal college education. These institutions only lay the foundation for a life long education. They provide the individual with a mental faculty and a framework of getting information and making sense of it, to make it usable or actionable.

And we do teach our people great subjects like Maths, science and humanities. Problem is that no one teaches personal development. No one even talks about goal setting or growth in life. Or what is the science of achieving goals, and mind you there is a science. No one even teaches achievements, hardly do we study great men and model their formulas for success in their careers or personal lives. We don’t even teach our people about the mind and what is the ontology of us human beings. What are our primary and fundamentals characteristics, motives, needs and what is our thrust towards. We hardly teach relationships and God forbid if there was a formal class on Love and Empathy. Or operating with harmony in a group. See these topics are so taboo that people think that only those who have some ‘problem’ in life should take such education. Rest of us, they assume, are natural masters in the above mentioned topics.

But I ask, is it so? Do we naturally know why our mind keeps running into self-sabotaging thoughts and action patterns? Do we get out of school and naturally know how to find a career of our true passion and also how to build a money empire with what we earn?

If we take a real look inside, all of these topics are of utmost importance. And we naturally don’t have any expertise in these, nor do our parents or conventional school teachers, because they too didn’t get a formal education in these. But I kid you not, there is substantial amount of research and knowledge available in these topics and with the advent of internet its even accessible to all of us. But what is truly needed is that these topics come into the conventional education system. So that a professional, along with learning how to run a business well, also learns how to learn his life well. To have amazing relationships, mastery on personal finance, is vibrant and enjoys great health and fitness, contributes to community and is over all an emotionally and socially intelligent being. A truly civilized citizen if you will.

And this can happen only with a culture change. Culture is a very powerful force to get conformity. If a lazy, procrastinating child (even though children are not lazy at all) was abruptly put in a school where all the other children were freaks in continuously creating personal development goals and then creating an environment of support for fulfilling these goals (consequently achieving these goals too), this child would feel a sudden pressure, a phenomena called eustress, to positively change his life. What all your peers do, is cool. And you better do it with them, even outperform. But sadly, the current condition is that there is no culture of personal development or growth, and that’s what people normally conform with.

So what I am an advocate of, is getting life education in the main stream. And making it ‘cool’ to study these topics. Get educated yourself and then teach your surroundings.

It’s about time that we as a society were amazing at this thing called ‘quality of life’, both individually and in communities. (Mind you, there was a time when we were not so good at ‘warfare’. And over time we did make advancement and breakthroughs in that discipline and right now we as a society are pioneers at warfare)

All I ask for is that we become pioneers at peace, love, contribution, growth, success, vitality. Eutopia can be made, no big deal!