Lome Blog About Our Revolution Euethos [Local Mestuns [Bethe Cange - Become a Host! Popular Posts Search Live Your Legend ‘Dur Revolution Local Mestups es to Teaching Yourself Anything (aka The Sel 1d Education Manifesto + PDF download) by Scott December 14,2011ower ‘oaTPrreln anc Yee hgh eS. ato Mane POF vd LY ape tHe SELF-GUIDED EDUCATION MANIFESTO. BEHONAL “APPLICATION Lexa oo ‘MANDATORY. LOVE. SHOWING UPS JUST ANALYZE EVERY THE BEGINNING. {j\\/ES STMENT im wore MONEY. (Rt THINGS LESSON. EXPLORE. “£a8" WHO YOU ARE. * voruais certan. BUILD ARGUMENTS, someone nec THINGS. MOST EDUCATION HAPPENS EFFICIENT 1s nor rie OUTSIDE OF THE CLASSROOM. same as EFFECTIVE. FIND) PEOPLE WHO THINK SEEK OUT DIFFERENT YOU'RE CRAZY. WARS OF EON TANES. yy THERE IS ALWAYSMORE TO LEARN. PE RE ? DONT ASSUMEawnns [T NEVER ENDS. epee nl eenrmutno nc oan ante“Ihave never let my schooling interfere with my education." —Mark Twain Note: This posts intentionally ong. I's meant tobe our compass for learning the sis that mater in the world and throwing theory out the window. Read it ave it, Bookmark it. Come back toi. Prin it and post ton your wal for you and the worl to sce and experince. Atte end ofthis post 've even provided two ce PDF downloads to futher guide you towards learning what matters (one is list of over 30 ofthe bes online resoutees fr creating your own passion-filled curriculum), (Update: As ares of subsriber demand, we eeated the wildly popular Should 1 Quit Test, Be carefl taking it though, your life my change real quick? "We've aso put together lifeiansforming courses that we are extemely proud of. They have helped thousands make the difficult tamsiton of quitting their job, being lad of or fred. Finding work you love can make life outstanding and these preducis help you do tat if you put them to use. Check out our 21 Das Discover Vour Passion and Live Off Your Passion if you are not happy with your career or not making a living off your passion. Both ae risk-free and come with a money Tow confidant we are in our courses) Enter the Unofficial Self-Guided Education Manifesto... Shi cok’ ticle on The Bish of Sel. Guided Education caught like wilde. This topic has always been a passion of mine but Thad no idea how mueh resonate withthe rst ofthe Live Yeur Legend community. Over 4,500 of you rea it, shared it or commented on tin a matter ofa few days. that happens, {know a topic deserves some respect. of last weck’s comments blew my mind. As it tums out (and this should not surprise me much), many of you have already made amazing progress beting your own experiences and success stories with Sel? Guided Education, I was inspired to sey the least, My realization was simple g Legends create their own education, sth of the matter is every Living Legend (whether they dropped out of high school or gota couple PRD's) took ther education and their learning into their ands, don’t care whet profession you're in or aspite to, ison all of us o start learning the sls tools and practical knowledge tht matters. ars I've been wanting to create a separate business on this topic but given the awesome momentum we've drummed up here, [say we ran with it sre going to really take this personalized education thing seriously, we must have a guide to help us on our w ing principles and every gret person has values they believe in, we need our own lighthouse, y Just as every great company has sent the last few days compiling the mos fundamental lessons and principles 1 could find on Sef-Guided Education. They ate by no means inclusive and T ‘now we will add to them overtime, but they are indeed a star. For now, these are the sum of both my’ experiences and that of the Living Legends I've spent time with over the years. Many of your comments from last week and beyond helped make this manifesto what itis. Thank you.our ‘earPrrelen anc Yee ting tha The Set-GsedEatlo Mane + POF oud LY ape So without futher ado Ty 27 Principles to Teach Yourself Anything (aka The Self-Guided Education Manifesto) ‘ory is optional. Practical application is mandatory. Constantly ask youself wheter or not his new knowledge will make you more useful bath for srothers and for pursing yout own deeams, Practical aplication rules the world. Thats whats gong to get you a job 1's what wil get you a promotion. ‘at will got your ides off the ground, What wil got you funded. I's wht will make you money Is what will actually el people, Feel Ire to leara the “o-to0 if that's your thing (t times it an be fun), but never at the expense of learning whats actually usable, ‘wing up is just the beginning. It's no longer enough to show up to class, do the homework and take the the tests. That's table stakes. This eas tue for ‘sation as its fa life. You must be willing to ake what you lean and test, experiment and apply ito things that mattr you so you can see What { works, what's worthwhile and what's a waste, Noone else ean do that fr you yourself in situations where learning is required fo survive and thrive. IFyour job, hobby or passion doesn't require you to constantly Teaen ther ting’s wrong. Make ita must and you can't help but grow. Siting around pounding a keyboard and takin orders doesn’t require many new ideas. ‘ng the world dos. Take the right risks and create the proper environment. *Thanks to Anne Samilov for inspiring this one ‘ra who you are. Know your strengths, passions, weaknesses, talents gifs, values, experiences, succeses, failures. Dig inside yourself and test itll. I've th last en years going to schoo! on myself and I'm ony just beginning. This isa constant. I's exactly why I erested the Live Off Your Passion eCourse ving a seifexpers shouldbe a required minor (f nat major) for every university stadent ‘rm what you Tove. This i the next step in knowing yourself Constantly pay attention tothe things that exete you. Notice which people who inspire and ‘motivate you to be a better person, Catch yourself dreaming about the business you Wish you Would have started, Find the tasks and jobs that you get absolutely lost in, Watch closely. epee hg abeiernuiinn tyne aiar ‘he 27Prep aig sang ah eae onan + ord Une Yap 6, Learn what you hate. Th “I hate to do” ist can be just as powerful as the “I love to do lit. Notice the things that make your har stand up on end. Know ‘which activities and personalities make you want to vomit. Avoid these like the plague. Society does not benefit from you spending more time doing things you hate or geting better at things you suck a. That i not what improvement is about I's about taking the bes of you and making it beter. The world will e beter frit 90% of my education was outside ofthe elasroom.” Paul Jun, LYL reader 7, Don’t take anything for granted, Go out and test it all. I'm taking everyting, This especially goes for those lesson, suggestions and “socal norms” that scem completely ridiculous. Ifsomething tells you there must be a better way, there likely is. Go out and find i Just because it was done one way for 30 years, ‘doesnot mean it as to be done the same way tomorrow. In fac, the longer something has boon practiced, the more i shoud probably be questioned. 8. Record everything, Whet yor love. What you hate. What you'r good at. What you suck at, What inspires you. What depresses you. Every emotion and lesson, positive and negative, writ it down and understand how is forming your story and how you can use io beter lean and apply going forward 9, Be careful who you learn from. My personal rule is: once three rusted and admired people recommend something, Ido it, The only problem with our new ‘world of sei-guided education is dat dere is more absolute crap availble to learn than ever before, There ae tsunamis of books being published, blogs being created and course being offered today. By defall this means the sheer numberof mediere or downright bad content available is going through the roof. Your viay_ 34 You mind are precious, Find & wey to iter what you consume. valyze every investment. This and the above go hand in hand. Our time is priceless and our money comes in at a close second. For every dollar and every ‘u're investing, he sure youre getting a retum, That could be inthe people you meet, the businesses you build, the skis you aequie, or anything that tribute genuine value to, You decide, « people srutnized theis investment in education lke they do the shiny, expensive trinkets they buy, bet we'd havea Tot fewer folks walking around gy. for jobs with theoryfilled diplomas and » mountain of debt. In order for Something tobe an investment, i must have a return, Keep your standards igh, lop tonparegedahgsebedeiennainimetyasanig1L Teach others, Theres no beter indication of true knowledge than when you can genuinely help and teach someone else the material. Give, give, give. The high is unreal. Yesterday moming finterviewed Simon Sink (euthor of Stari With Why) for Live Your Legend (it wil belive in mid January). He hammered home the fundamental tat that we are ere to serve and help others, Nothing makes us feel bee, Check out Simon's rece talk If You Don’t Understand People, Your Don't Understand Business, fr an added kick inthe ass. ‘You know things that others want 10 know, [det that and find @ way to offer it Use blog, the web, a community group, your fs ‘knowledge. Ifyou ean tach something to someone else, chances are they can tach something to you to. ily, anything, Trade 12, Build things. This stats from day one, Ifyou ure reading about how to write, then star wring. I'you're being taught how to interview, they go find some job openings. People dramatically overestimate how much time them must spend learsing before they start doing. The answer is exactly ZERO. The moment you start leaming s the moment you must start building and testing 13, Break things. Don’t expect everything you build to work, Infact, most oft won't, That's where the bes lering happens anyway ~ in the serew-ups and the Failures and in what you do as result, The Wright Brothers were rumoced to have brought ive sets of parts to every attempted fest ight case thats how ‘many times they'd fail before supper, James Dyson went trough 5,127 prototypes before he invented the sl vacuum that didn't lose suction, The people who break the most things tend to experience the most success ‘ke money. Most people don't make money from thing that are fun because they cther think it should take mach longer or they never asin the first ‘What if you put a price on your experiments from day one? [bet there's someone who will ay you. And its not until you have a paying and satisfied (or ied) customer, that you really star to Team if your ideas are worth a dime, Does it help people and will hey pay you fori? Tha’ theultimate decider of Dr your ideas and education have mer. 2° ficient is not the same as Effective. Just because you can hand addres 1,000 envelopes in an hour does’ mean you should’ just use a template and 1m ou in ive minutes. And just because you can print 1,000 envelope in five minles doesn’t mean you shoulda’ scrap the sil mail altogether and "YouTube, blogs or the web where you ean get some real leverage (although I'm a huge fan ofthe thoughtful hand-waiten note on the right occasions). ime reason we've become obsessed with efficiency. But that's the very thing that might be kil ive is doing the right things. There's a massive difference us, Being Efficient is doing things right. Being 2st education happens outside ofthe classroom. Useful products don’t get built inside your four walls, Leaming doesn't happen inside a 15-pound dak. The rubber mes the road when we decide to step out of what's comfortable and actly stat interacting wit the eal world, That's where the data, provement and the magic happens. “Ifyou want to write your own life, I suggest you start by Googling a course on Something interesting to you.” Edy Azar, LYL reader plore, My best education to date ws the years I spent studying a the London School of Economic (in a hands-on learning environment) and running a Dusiness in Sevilla, Spain. That changed ny understanding of the world ina way that I never could have dreamed oft made all the difference. World ravel ought tobe requirement for everyone, Drop a year of school i you have to to save money I's that important, Explore everything. Yourself. Others eas. The worldaout ‘ear Prrelen anc Yee tga The Se-Gsedato Mane POF wkd LY ape 18. Connections are EVERYTHING. The people you mect influence what you learn, what you believe and who you are. Constantly evaluate wht relationships best serve your goals professionally and personally. Keep the best an fire the rest. Everything magical inthe world exists because ofthe people ‘who came together to make it possible. The world begins and ends with your relationships. This is actualy the next course and book I've aleady stared ‘working on forall you (ientasively tiled How to Connect Wik Anyone ~ more on that soon), 19, Don’t assume anything. You may learn your most powerful lessons in the most peculiar of places, Expect this, Search them out, Have fan with i hat if everyone had it backwards? Every 0 often, sit down and ask yourself What if everything I've been told s completely backwards? What ifthe sare wrong? What would tat Fook like? Invert everything, Ifyou think you need a year of experience to do someting, think sbout what would happen it “red attempring it with only a day under your belt I'm not saying you do that, but atleast think about it. See what comes up. Ok, then maybe give it B Afterall, what's the worst that could happen, y every medium, Read books and articles, listen to tapes and seminars, watch videos and presentations (TED Talks are a great place to star), write down ind stores, There are xo many ways for us to learn, Find those mediums that resonate mos, Focus your learning the ‘on their head fom ime to time. Tut then take inthe others to turn ‘tin arguments, Perhaps “discussions” isa beter word, With fiends, with smart people, with experts, with everyone. Find people who will test your Pople wo will question you beliefs and help you se things from angles you may have been Blind "oon your own. I's amazing how certain we ean be 8 right up until someone provides a more compelling answer. Be confident enough to stand up for what you believe, but be open enough to knows when ‘wrong, ad people who think you're crazy. Don't ust suround yourself with people who believe exactly what you belive. Ifyou do, you'll never know if your sre truly objective. Good frends, mentors dnd models are often good a serving the role of devil's advocate. You want these people around. Taey make you oattr, 24, Seek out different ways of doing things. The online world makes ths endless. There area milion ways to make a living, change the world and help people. Notice al the ways people have been successful. Find the ols tha uit you best, Devour them. *See the end ofthis post fora free PDF download of eyelet nc oan ante aaout ‘ear Prrelen aac Yee tga The Set-Gsetlo Mane + POF dowd LY ape ‘over 30 ofthe best online leering tols I've Found 25, Everything isa lesson. Every person. Every experience. Every hardship. Allo tis your teacher. 26, Nothing is certain. Beware of those who are overly sure of themselves. There's often other ways. Don't be naive And finaly 27. It never ends. “There is always more to learn, There's always more to discover. The learning never ends. Neve: I don’t cae what your age or stage i, If you'r not learning, you're dying, literally. The chotve should be prety clea. Devsop a pasion fran ike you would for anything se you fv, Ler he hing tht interest you an pps n way that make you and thes fappy sed you'll become ated nn tine The only opto so make ean notion And thee youve 22% enap hs ite not complete, Nor wilt eve be; IT mised anything you thin corto our man, pleat te cman kas, ld Stoowiee ft just a few principles to get ws started, are entering a new world of education, hore we dese what enters our brain, We decided what matters most, We get to build our curiculum, We get to take control and be responsible for 1g the things that will make the Biggest cfference in our lives, ae the reins, you ask? se when we foes on lamin the things that atually mater, we make the world beter tne tthe Sel-Guided Education movement just geting started and one things for sure... I's going to bea party ad you're with me. 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