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The Inside Out Method
Why do we focus on interests before success?
No one in a family fully relaxes until the young adult in the house is financially stable and can stand on their own. This is when the whole household breathes a collective sigh of relief and, only then, does that person actually have the psychological freedom to explore, learn, and choose what interests them.
It always has to be success first, interests second.
This is the inside out method.
Currently, we are essentially using the opposite approach which means we force feed a bunch of easily forgotten information, then the person strives for, and hopefully attains, success and then they pursue what interests them while vowing never to be force fed information again.
We need to eliminate the first step of force feeding information because it just gets in the way. We think it serves the purpose of exposing kids to a variety of career paths, but it's very rare when this is the case. Mostly, it just dulls kids out during their formative years and makes them equate learning with pain, which none of us want.
For the equity enthusiasts, this approach is about as equitable as it gets. The truth is equity is just another word for money and by removing all the garbage procedures between the individual and financial success, financial success becomes available to just about anyone from any background.
This is because many white and blue collar careers are built on months of information, not years, which is especially important to the poorer communities who don't have the luxury of time.
Success first, interests second is the way real life works so let's emulate that.
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