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[…] the home schooling community. Penelope Trunk maintains a blog that crosses both communities, and here’s a post about teaching kids […]
This was so interesting and helpful for me. This space where your two blogs converge makes for fascinating reading.
I’ve been thinking about this kind of thing more and more, under the guise of helping the kids forge their own careers instead of trying to figure out how to get them to fit into an established one. I want to believe that it’s possible, and a good use of our homeschooling time, to get them started on their future career now. But it’s really scary because few people seem to be doing that. So thanks, again, for giving me some direction.
There are a lot of great points here, many you have mentioned before. And while I agree, and want this for my sons, I wonder how to teach even the beginnings of this way of thinking when it does not come naturally to me? I appreciate hiring a consultant once they have ideas etc, but my boys are too young for that yet (2 & 4), and in the meantime I don’t think I am creating that type of environment for them. I am the person who has the lists of reasons a business will fail, rather than succeed.
I think teaching failure is really important.
I think I’d always be a leader and a big-picture thinker. But the thing that made me able to do startups is that I don’t mind failing in front of people. And I don’t mind starting from scratch over and over again.
As parents, we can encourage kids to fail and start over again by letting them see us fail and start over.
We fail all the time, but our instinct is to try to hide it. From everyone – not just the kids. But failure is the result of trying something.
Homeschooling gives us this opportunity all the time. I am constantly rethinking how we are going to do homeschooling and telling the kids why my last idea was bad. (For example: workbooks, lots of travel, these are things that did not work out.)
Penelope
Having a list of reasons a business will fail is a skill unto itself.
Thanks for your post! It was very helpful and informative.
Mentors, I never realized how important this was until recently. Some mentors will only teach you how to work hard. Other mentors will teach you how to work smarter and run things and show you how to never stop pushing forward and making life better for yourself and others.
Some are inspiring…. and then some teach you just enough to keep you working for them and nothing more. It’s great to teach kids which is which, and how to pick the right ones so they never get stuck on that never-ending treadmill of working for someone else.
The last offer I received to learn something new was to learn how to sell for a big corporation. I have no problem selling myself and my own abilities, but I have no clue how to sell for an entity outside of myself, especially one I don’t particularly believe in.
I have no desire, zero, to sell for this company. I’m guessing it’s a personality trait of mine that’s working against me. It’s just not something I want to learn. It doesn’t sound like an authentic role for me. I can’t be fake, which is a drawback, I know.
Finding a mentor to learn something you desire to learn….there has to be that desire for whatever it is.
And if you don’t respect who you’re learning from, then you won’t learn anything except how to do the opposite of what they say, or maybe that’s just me.
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