Believe it or not, there are some things that school won't teach you and today I'm going
to expose five of those things!
Hello and welcome back to CapOhTV, the channel where we know school is a joke but you still
have to do something!
I don't want to waste too much of your time, I'm sure school has done that enough, so let's
get right into these five things.
Crazy as this sounds, you don't have to be friends with everyone.
For whatever reason, when you're in school, people assume that just because you've known
someone for the past 12 years means that they're your friend.
Not the case.
You can be friendly with someone but you don't need to be friends with them.
Here's an example of how this works in the real world.
When you get your first job or your second job or whatever it happens to be, you're gonna
have a group of people that you have to coexist with in order to get the job done.
However, you will probably never, ever see those people outside of work because they're
not your friends.
And you shouldn't feel pressured to be their friend just because you spend seven or eight
hours a day with them.
Trust me, if you can learn to separate who's your friend and who's not your friend and
not try to get it all mixed up and feel pressured to be someone's friend who you don't really
want to spend any time with outside of the time you have to spend with them, then your
life is gonna be much simpler.
Debt is bad, m'kay?
Sorry, but that's a very bad Mr. Mackie impression.
It's still true, though.
Debt is bad but you wouldn't know that by going through school.
Most high schools that I know of now require you to go through some sort of financial literacy
courses.
It's supposed to prepare you for the real world, it's supposed to teach you how to manage
money, how to pay your bills and how not to be broke.
And in the classes that I've seen it includes a little simulation game, it kind of looks
like The Sims, except it's really watered down and only teaches you how to pay your
bills.
But guess who the sponsors are behind the material for these financial literacy classes...
Visa, Mastercard, HSBC, Chase Bank, etc, etc, etc...
They teach the traditional path which will lead you into financial ruin.
They say after high school you have to go to college.
In order to go to college you probably have to take out forty or fifty thousands dollars
in student loans.
And while you're in college or shortly after you need to get a car to the tune of fifteen
to twenty thousand dollars which you should also finance.
And then you might want to buy a house, so you should finance that, too, because who
buys a house these days without a giant mortgage?
Oh, and guess what, you can lease your cell phones now so you never have to actually buy
one, you can just make payments on one and then return it when you're done with it to
get a new one and keep making payments to the creditors over and over and over again.
As long as you owe more money than you actually have, you're broke.
And it doesn't matter how small your monthly payments are, the fact is that you've got
sixty, seventy, eighty thousand dollars in debt by the time you graduate college.
And then you're gonna slap on another hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a house.
Debt is bad, m'kay?
This is a big one: your first job will not be your last job.
I've touched on this in previous videos, but there's this idea that is still taught in
school by almost everyone.
The idea is that you need to choose a career path before you graduate, you need to have
a very clear direction before you graduate, you need to have your entire life planned
out to the last minute before you gradute.
They're saying that your first job is going to be your last job.
Let's be real, though... it's not.
Your first job is probably the first job out of ten to fifteen things you might do in your
lifetime, especially in the world that we live in now.
Things happen fast and for most people that means job changes on a regular basis.
You might stay within the same industry and do a different job in that industry but you're
not, in all likelihood, you're not gonna stay at the same position that you start at after
high school or college for your whole life.
Those days are over because either you're gonna just go on and do something better or
that company is gonna shut down because of the economic climate that we have or that
company is gonna downsize and get rid of you...
what else... that company could outgrow you and say your
services are no longer up to snuff.
There are so many factors these days that you can't count one job for your whole life.
Let's get into a big-picture idea right now: school will not teach you that you are in
control of your own life.
Let that sink in for a second: school will not teach you that you are in control of your
own life.
I've made numerous videos that highlight the fact that the school system has complete dominion
over you while you're a student.
School teaches students to be dependent on authority and to follow directions.
It teaches students that they are just another cog, another mindless drone in a sea of mindless
drones and if you don't drone well enough, if you don't follow directions and perform
the tasks that are assigned to you well enough, then you're marked as a failure, you're discarded
and they just move on to the other thousand people that are behind you in line.
Nowhere will they truly teach you that you're in control of your own life.
You're either answering to the teacher, answering to a teacher's aide, answering to a principal,
superintendent, what-have-you...
It's always someone else who's in control of what you do, think, and say.
But I'm telling you you're in control of your own life and you're gonna have to figure out
what that really means.
Another thing school won't teach you is that high school is not the end of your life.
The idea that the four years you spend in high school are your peak years is a lie that
is told to you by school, TV, and movies.
But somehow this myth continues that these four years are the most important years of
your life and if you're not told that, then you're told that college is the most important
time of your life.
High school and college are only four year chunks of your entire 75, 85, 95 year old
life.
It's insignificant.
It's almost like school is not important and it doesn't matter.
But I bet some people watching right now have been told and have fallen for the lie that
high school is supposed to be the best years of your life.
If you believe that and it's not living up to the best years of your life, whatever that
idea means to you, then you're probably having a really, really sucky four years.
High school is a little BLINK on the timeline of your entire life.
You'll never see 99% of these people ever again.
You'll never see any of the principals again, the teachers, the aides, the janitors.
All of that will be gone far, far in the past as soon as you graduate.
All your negative memories about high school will probably only be remembered by you if
you hang onto them.
No one's gonna remember or care what happened to you in third period on June 7th, 2018.
No one cares.
High school is not the end of your life and you're in control of your own destiny.
What other things do you think there are that school won't teach you or can't teach you?
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