Learning from Wonderful, Intelligent People.
The Steemit community is a very special and unique place. I’ve seen many acts of great generosity. I’ve read some amazing posts and comments, and I’ve noticed that we have a proportionally high number of intelligent and like-minded individuals on the platform, that are willingly sharing their valuable insights with each of us.
How good is that?
To be clear - in the context of this article, like-minded does not mean that we all think and believe the same things - but rather that there are are a lot of people that share common values and aspirations. Our thoughts, beliefs, methods and goals for being here may differ significantly - but I also see many commonalities and that is I what I chose to focus on.
My feed constantly exposes me to new ideas, opinions, insights and research that helps me to learn and grow. Learning and growing (becoming a better human-being if you will) is very important to me - this is why I have chosen to rank it as my #2 reason for being on Steemit.
If you missed my #1 reason you can read it here: Reason 1 - Helping Others While Trying to Make the World Better a Place
I Am a Global Citizen
I have viewed myself as a global citizen from a very early age.
By the age of 13 - I had attended 12 different schools, in 7 different countries with a curriculum that was taught in 5 different languages.
My parents chose not to enrol me in the international schools because they thought that I would learn more by being immersed in the local culture and language. They ‘threw me in the deep end and taught me to swim’ and adapt to new environments and build relationships with the local kids as I learned their customs and languages.
As challenging as this was on so many levels, it was one of the best decisions that they ever made. It gave me an education that not many people get to experience and for that I am eternally grateful. That does not mean that my education was better than the next persons, because in many respects it wasn’t. It was simply different.
I had to quickly adapt to a new language, culture and curriculum. One day I was being educated in Swedish and comfortably keeping pace with the class - the next day I was learning French and I found myself six months ahead of the class. One year later I was learning Dutch and I was 12 months behind the class, playing catch-up. It was a roller-coaster ride in many respects. I’m think that you get my drift.
I was forced to adapt very quickly and to integrate and make new friends. I was always the new kid in school and while I was never bullied, I was never the most popular kid in class either. I learned to make friends quickly and I became a keen observer and a student of human behavior - I soaked it all in as it shaped me.
When I was 4 years of age my Mom would take me to the markets, I was her translator. When she wanted to buy a chicken the shop-owner would hand her a living chicken, she was initially mortified. Mom told me to ask him to kill and de-feather the chicken, so I did. The shop-owner confirmed that he would carry out my instructions as he shook his head whilst calling us ‘crazy foreigners’ under his breath. He told us to come back in 20 minutes as he gave me a wry smile. Mom & I hastily moved towards the vegetable section which was a relief for both us, as it was for anyone selling livestock.
Kids Spend Less Than 10,000 Hours at School in their Lifetime
In 2011 (on average), OECD kids spent 791 hours at school. Assuming that each kid spent 12 years in school (it is less on average) that equates to a grand total of 9,493 hours of learning at school.
In my last post I shared with you that I consciously devoted the past 3.5 years of my life to discovering truth - that meant re-educating myself from the ground up.
I’ve spent (on average) 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, for the past 3.5 years researching history, and questioning almost everything that I was ever taught in school in my quest to discover truth - that’s over 15,000 hours of research in 3.5 years (alone) - which is well over 30% more hours than our children spend at school in the first (and most formative) 17 years of their lives.
I learned far more by conducting my own research than I ever did in school. I learned far more from my parents throwing me in the deep end and telling me to swim. I’ve learned far more on Steemit than I would ever learn on Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, You Tube, Twitter and Instagram.
Maybe that is because I checked out of these censored/fake social media platforms 8 years ago and have failed to keep up with the times - but I doubt it. I do watch good you tube content still but I don’t engage on the platform socially very often.
I’m not a supporter of the education/indoctrination system. I believe that children should be home-schooled if possible. If that is not possible parents should take a very active role in ensuring that they are the ones shaping their children’s worldview rather than out-sourcing their responsibility to the government.
I digress - I’ve already shared some of my thoughts on education in these posts:
Education and Indoctrination - Is There a Difference?
What do Einstein, Pink Floyd, Noam Chomsky and the Trilateral Commission have in Common?
Steemit is a Great Educational Platform
We live in a world of fake-news and a comprised education system. We are fortunate that Steemit has provided us with an uncensored social media platform to write about the things that we care about. I’m here because I love to learn and Steemit is without doubt one of the best educational platforms that we have today.
My truth may not be your truth, that’s ok. I am merely sharing my truth and ‘introducing myself’ to you during this series and I welcome hearing your truth.
Thank you for reading this post and for allowing me to share why I love Steemit with you!
This post is part of an on-going effort to ‘introduce myself’ - I will reveal more during the course of the series and in future posts.
I hope that this post has been profitable to you!
Till next time…
Love, Peace & Truth
@steemthruth
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Any friend of home schooling is a friend of mine🌻 Upd and resteemed and already following you
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Thank you @farmandadventure. I'm a fan and follower of your channel.
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i don't think i can spend that many hours learning every single day. so you're either shitting me, or just incredibly driven :p
in any case, great post again! looking forward to the next part of this series
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I'm not shitting you. I had (and still have) a very deep and sincere desire to discover truth. I decided to put my life on a shelf and spend the last 3.5 years searching for it. I spent more hours searching before I went full-time so it's probably closer to 20,000 hours. Some days I studied for 18 hours and some none -but on average it was probably 12 hours. I was consumed, addicted and that is the same as driven.
I've invested a lot of time and sacrificed a lot of money to do this research but that is irrelevant. I'd hate to die and never have known the truth. Truth is far more important than anything else IMHO.
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yeah, i meant that more as a joke than anything else (and i admit, i did have a sliver of doubt). hope i didn't offend you :)
anyhow, thank you for replying to clarify. i really respect that dedication. kudos to you, my friend!
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you didn't offend me. I knew that you were joking but I took the opportunity to clarify my position and make a statement. I know that it's crazy - but I'm glad that I did it. I learned so much.
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Hi, thank you for sharing, following you ^^
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Thank you @crypto-p. I sincerely appreciate it.
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Great post, thank you for sharing your story :)
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welcome to steemit, glad to have you join us
I wish you the best! and hope to see you soon.
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Thank you @hien-tran
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This is such a great post! So many ideas and points of view on Steemit that you never know what you're going to find. Not to mention the diverse group on people on here sharing their ideas and expressing their feelings. I love Steemit and can't wait to see where it goes in the future :)
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Great post friend
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Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Good analysis
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Thank you!
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Awesome! Following.
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Thanks!
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thanks for sharing .. looking forward for another awesome topic
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You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it.
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student of the world :)
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I Really resonate with your thought process
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Thanks for sharing this story of your youth
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Your welcome @scotty777 and thank you for sharing those beautiful photos and the ultimate truth in your post yesterday.
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Interesting post @steemtruth
Thanks for sharing this.
.. Following you! .. and please do stay in touch.
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That's one hell of an intro. I agree about home schooling.
Upvoted and followed you :)
Question, would be interested in teaming up with me and others? Aside from random upvoting and curating, we’re looking to team up with some like minded steemians.
We help and build each other up simply using the tag #minnowtowhale when we post and supporting others who use it. We help one another grow buy following, commenting, upvoting and resteaming each others work. Quality over quantity style. Interested?
LMK if you're game or have any questions :) Check us out here 👉🏼 Team #minnowtowhale
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Thank you! I read your #minnowtowhale page and I really like what you are trying to do. The issue is that I am no longer a minnow. If I was I would be in. I wish you all the very best though.
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Ah yes, you are what we are striving to be ;) lol I must have been half awake while reaching out to you. Well if you have any pointer for us or would like to help in any way it would be greatly appreciated that would be wonderful! Enjoy the day :)
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There is a minnow group that is run by @aggroed. He is committed to helping minnows. He is running a chat group on the discord app. If you search back through his posts or use the custom search feature you should be able to find details of how to connect to it.
With your own account you could try to connect with other users in your niche? Look at what the successful people in your niche are doing. You may also find a whale or two that regularly supports that type of content and you could try to get their attention.
I hope that this is helpful and that you have great success :)
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Awesome thanks 👊🏼 See ya around
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Welcome @steemtruth to steemit, I wish you best luck and good time here.
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Thank you @shirish5. All the very best!
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Welcome to steemit, happy to have you here
I am @alienposts , my real name is achraf :)
Checkout my blog posts, Enjoy your time here and let's get this party started :)
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following you asap...am also new here
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Thank you!
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Welcome to Steemit @steemtruth!
I'm a bot-helper, and I'm created to help. Congratulations on the registration on Steem - you really like it here!
Unfortunately, I can not make an upvote of your record - my steem power is still small. But in the future I will come back and do it. If you like me, make an upvote of my comment and follow me.
Your upvote will allow you to give more money to new users, such as you. Let's make Steem better together!
I follow you, and I hope you will follow me.
All the money I earn will be donated to charity.
Steem on!
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awesome...you must be really intelligent
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I'm not quite sure how to reply to that but I thank you for saying it.
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Please don't use #introduceyourself more than once.
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Not being funny, but can you tell me why? Is it a rule? I was going to use it a few more times as I am doing an 'intro-series' but I don't want to make trouble either. If you could let me know I'd appreciate it. Cheers.
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Wow, what a read! I will def be giving you a follow. The #definition of a #quality post and I must say there is some gold in all these post here at #Steemit! Glad to be apart of the community. @steemtruth
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Thank you @clasicktv, very much appreciated. Welcome to Steemit - it's an awesome community and I'm glad that you are here. All the very best!
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Thanks again for the warm welcome, and it really has been growing on me. I still need to get some things figured out, but its all a work in progress. Figuring out the rewards and how the curation and the delegations, etc work is my next thing to tackle.
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