This essay is much longer than I wanted. It’s been revised and edited 10 times. Beehiiv won’t let me make it one post. So, I have to cut it into separate posts. Hopefully this will be just a part 1 and 2. This isn’t a speed read; It’s about 20 pages.

This needs to get shared. There are still things I would like to word differently, and a lot I want to edit. Now I finally have peace with what it is. It’s an attempt to describe my experiences with public education, college as well as what it could be.

The definition of essay is to “attempt”, or to “try”. I succeeded in that. This may be lame or boring, but I no longer care. I think there is value here regardless of some theological undertones. I mention God a few times within the context of my life and learning. But I also mention many other things in it. If you don’t like it, then you don’t have to read that part. However, I encourage all to have an open mind, and reserve judgment or criticism of this piece until you finished it.

I’m excited to complete other writing projects. Since I have more to talk about on education, I see this as book as an entire book or at least several chapters in a book.

This essay was started with the idea of being 2,000 to 3,500 words June/ 27/25 and finished today as I write on Sep/7/25 at over 10,000 words. This is probably the longest single thing I have yet to write. I just hope it’s clear and interesting to someone.

I appreciate your patience and willingness to read my work.

I hope you enjoy it!

-Andrew.

Why bother understanding the past? Why gain awareness and experience today? Why make plans, set goals, take risks and prepare for the future? What else are you going to do, live vicariously through a screen?

Come on now. There is immense value to remember and re-learn the ways of our ancestors. Certain habits, skills, traditions, knowledge is timeless. Self-education can be useful regardless the times in which we live. To glean and retain the best parts of our personal and collective human past is of utmost importance for our future. My exception to this is the spiritual aspect, many people for generations have lost sight of themselves, the spiritual world, and lost faith in God. Knowing our past, and ways of our ancestors is valuable. I'm not implying we return to the past ages out of nostalgia for another time . No, I advocate we do not relive history and regress in to a dark age as Europe did for over 500 years when Rome fell.

Rather, I advocate a revival of crafts, guilds, and becoming a polymath. A collaboration and a revival of the rural communities, strengthening each other. Integration of services and resources where necessary with willing urbanized towns and cities. Since most urban and rural areas are diametrically opposed. Many valuable experiences and practical skills we have forgotten, lost, or never learned which made our recent ancestors better suited to the uncertainty of life's trials. It is also important to be able to use and interact with the modern world with technology, and with other people as well. I am not a full luddite, I support and enjoy many forms of technology like the next person. Social media and the internet has harmed our ability to interact with others and harming our relationships with people as well, but there are ways we can overcome this challenge we face as young people. I propose reeducation for all people but am more able to relate to people born in the 90's or later. It comes down to what we want as we mature and age.

Our civilization is racing head on to make ourselves obsolete. Since the dawn of civilization we have created various ways to save time, reduce labor. Now we have leisure by the billions. And still we aim to eliminate work altogether via computer and robotic automation. Now, many live as if they want to automate their mind. We have automated our minds in many ways. Think of calculators, and google maps. My phone just went down for over a week and I struggled to do my job. I also speak to my self here. Especially if we look at a growing trend of society's dependance of generative AI to outsource their thinking and creativity. This is absurd! Work is what we are here for. Life is work, not just a day job either. Not all work is miserable drudgery. Work often brings fulfillment and purpose.

All occupations, careers, chores and hobbies demand a varying level of training, skillsets or tools. I would suggest even the most mundane tasks like pitching manure, milling grain, using draft animals to farm, being on an assembly line in a factory, washing clothes by hand, carrying water for 2 miles, and commuting to work on foot can yield a valuable lesson or at the very least bring us a humility and reverence for what we have and take for granted in the 21st century. We don't need to embrace all this and adopt all primitive ways in our lives, but some old ways are worth mixing with modern ways.

Many people for something like 40 years have been living in a theoretical vicarious bubble of idleness. The modern man has a form of amnesia. An amnesia of culture, history, courage, strength, creativity, family, fidelity, oneself, boredom, ingenuity, of morality, respect, loving God, and more practically love for each other. Moreover, we treat the elderly worse than ever. There is growing body of younger people who loath marriage, making a living sacrifice to family, community, and country. We have lost the desire to make a legacy for future generations. Many of the virtues we have forgotten, are what made the U.S.A great for a long time and made it the global superpower. Attracting folks across the world. Many find it inconvenient or nonsensical settling down and raising children. The traditional family of man, woman and children are under attack.

Nowadays, a growing number of people see life as meaningless, are apathetic and numb to other people. Mental health is more of a problem than ever before. A massive role is smartphones, and social media. As Jordan Peterson talks about with his guest Johnathan Haidt, author of the anxious generation.

Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, Episode #556.

My solution:

An antidote to human obsolescence, social indifference, and poor mental health can be found in rewiring the mind, I believe this begins with education, with awareness of where we went wrong. We need to look at the lessons in history all lessons to show us where we are and where to chart our course next in life. Life is a game of triumph and turmoil, and life gains more value when we can sit and be bored and not need to be entertained 24/7. Or even solve problems our former self saw as impossible. What changes this is discovery, discovery of the past. Facing the good and the evil of ourself and not hiding from it.

Someone told me 5 years ago, "There are two "wolves" in us we can feed, a good and bad wolf. The one you feed most will determine the wolf you become. Which wolf are you going to feed then?"

A quote from Aristotle.

"Give me a child until he is seven, and I will show you the man."

The Diamond Education:

 An adaptive, practical holistic competency of the human. Competence regardless of the circumstances. A Literacy of life itself. A relevant personalized education. A knowledge base beyond school and university. This goes beyond job training. It’s more of a lifestyle design system for learning and growing out of all situations. The model would borrow from all walks of life. The diamond incorporates experience, theory and observation, as well as hand-eye coordination, literacy, memorization of necessities, communication, oral tradition, storytelling, self-defense, as well as strength training.

The Soul: 

I’m adding a bit of controversy, Consider your eternal state often.

Read the bible cover to cover, and research biases on either side with an honest, open heart and mind. Before labeling it nonsense fairytales.

Science cannot grasp or begin to understand the origins of consciousness or explain spiritual things. It’s beyond our current scientific understanding. I have studied consciousness, world religion and metaphysics enough for myself, that’s why I am now a Christian. I can’t prove this all to you nor will I try to at this time. I am not anti-science, don't mistake me for that.

Just remember Grace, faith and the holy trinity cannot be fully grasped with human understanding. A desire to know God brings, great hope, meaning and even joy in one's life. It ties all things together in a garment fit for life. However, it does not magically make one’s life easy or a worry free, often the opposite. I found that life without God personally led me to hedonism and nihilism. The garden of earthly delights.

My goal here is to uncover and explain pathways towards a diamond education. The diamond is a symbolic definition I am breathing life into here. The diamond education is about being holistically competent in one's own life. Self mastery. A means of navigating the uncertainty and rapid changes of our modern era. Becoming more creative, dynamic, adaptive, thrifty, and resourceful.

It’s nothing new, just something old, with my own name and definition. We are lacking knowledge of the past and present in these times, so I am giving it a name and a new package, this is how we counter our own obsolescence in the coming era. The circus of the coming decades. The 2030's and 40's.

The diamond as I see it makes use of practical, experiential knowledge, applied to life, innovate, and refine your craft and yourself in the process. It means to accumulate a diverse skillset which is strong in life experiences. Much of this is experiential learning. That is learning by doing. This was common sense for most old timers. It also aims for self-mastery. The ancient Greek proverb "Know thyself" is quite fitting here. This can be greatly augmented by reading classic literature and writing daily. Allow yourself quiet time to think and ponder the deeper meaning and nature of things or events in life. The diamond has many facets to it, so too does a great education, that's why I have chosen that beloved gem to symbolize an ideal education that is attainable. A related idea is the [specialized generalist] niche down and when your confident and competent in your lane, then branch out. In this instance one can add a new facet to him or herself.

Dystopian novels grew my love of learning.

In 10th grade, my English class was assigned to read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The protagonist Guy Montag starts out as a firefighter and then ends up sabotaging the institution he is a part of after seeing the evil they were carelessly committing. Ironically the firefighters of this story use kerosene torches to burn people’s homes and property if the owners are suspected of reading or keeping books. Holding a book and reading a book is a serious crime, worse than not paying a mortgage or tax evasion as people are also killed for reading.

From what I remember, only a few types of content can be read without punishment. Such as government propaganda and ads. Anything worth reading from the past was strictly banned and well enforced.

This novel is a picture of what could look like if Information is curated or controlled by others to an extreme. When literature is censored people become malleable, docile and conform the way a central authority desires. Ray Bradbury also mentions guy's wife addiction to using screens the size of walls with a form of media that appears to be zoom calls mixed with a game show and livestream, she calls it family.

The author also predicts "sea shells" in the ears, which is wireless Bluetooth earbuds we have nowadays.

In reality, here in the year 2025 we have generally the opposite of F-451 in our world, we have so much information yet we cant process, let alone use it to better ourselves. Big tech leverages it's addictive products and services, and spends billions perfecting the art of capturing the mind. Our personal data trail, and most of all, our attention is more valuable than gold. This age of information is a firehose with water we could never possibly drink retain, and apply to our life. We are flogged with pressure of endless information, colors, sounds and stimulating simulations. Its a pseudo virtual existence many inhabit these days.

As Hitler came into power him and the Nazis carried out the most memorable book burning in Berlin Germany, may 10th 1933.

This type of censorship is what inspired Bradbury to create his novel, an allegory of recent history.

Another book I will mention is The Giver, by Lois Lowry. In this story, everyone was drugged to dull the senses and to not feel emotions. In addition, the people in this culture had been compartmentalized and given specific jobs. Going outside the city wall is outlawed. Jonas, the main character, is chosen to be the receiver of memory, an important role which involves awareness and knowledge about the memory and history of their society. People born different, with undesirable traits, question authority, or who don't fit the mold of the collective social design, are killed via euthanasia. This is called being "released" in the book. Jonas gains this understanding and memory from the old man called the Giver. His realized the importance of having emotions and memories and the rest of the book is him working to topple the people in control to give people depth in life and to save people from being killed for having emotions or non conformity.

Dystopian fiction, and the many nonfiction real historical accounts expand our awareness which allows us to see the earlier stages of totalitarianism and centralization.

Matthew B. Crawford in his book "The world beyond your head" states, and I'm paraphrasing. Many writers of the 1950's could often identify and discern the signs of totalitarianism. These authors mentioned their findings in their publications across different genres. We still have liberty to take heed and change our course. Consider why these authors wrote these types of books. Some examples of dystopian fiction are Orwell's 1984, The Hunger Games, or A Brave New World. A nonfiction true historical account The Gulag archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, showed the world what Stalin and the U.S.S.R had done to Eurasia with communism.

A practical solution that's feasible for one person if they care, is strong self-reliance, personal development, and skill acquisition. It is being disagreeable and defending an opinion, even when its not popular. To have a discussion and dialog without letting emotions cloud our vison and listening well to others. It is having a strong local community and familial ties. It is "mutual inter-dependance" as the farmer Joel Salatin advocates for rootedness and "local food systems" in his interviews and speeches. One place to check for this and where I heard him say mutual interdependence was his discussion in a podcast episode i think was with with Mark Shephard, the agroforestry, and permaculture practitioner who wrote, Restoration Agriculture. I have yet to recover the episode, or I would have shared the link.

I watched it in late 2021 I believe, so it’s at least 5 years old.

Indigenous people, Their ways:

I have had immense interest and adoration for the primitive ways of native people across the globe. The Chumash people of southern C.A are the first such group i learned about and we read a cute kids book called badger claws, a native boy who lived in Matilija, CA with his tribe. This area is 30 mins from where I grew up. In school I learned about them and the 21 Spanish missions. And saw museums describing how the Chumash people once lived on the Channel Islands and hunted mammoths which lived there 13,000 years ago. This cultivated a desire to know about all native peoples in the new world. Their history, culture, crafts and stories. The first nations had a unique relationship to nature we have lost today and even the old world has lost for many centuries. These material cultures, where in tune with the rest of nature and creation. Yes, I said creation, as I personally know that this world was created. I am not attempting to sway your view or opinion here. Native tribes obviously still had wars, they did evil deeds any other person, and they still had problems like the rest of us do, I won’t romanticize them. But they had more integration in their local environment and weren't totally severed from nature and each other like we are today.

Segway! My Thoughts of God and Christian ideals will be more obvious in my other writing. My focus in this work is self-education and a resolve to strengthen our culture. I will add my view, that a complete education cannot be found apart from god's word. If I sound foolish in what I write yet can please God, then I am fine with that. My writing is not only a passion of mine but a way I hope to serve God. I hope to leave some tasty morsels, breadcrumbs that are salty and sweet like honey, to cause a craving through my testimony of god’s love in other words. I want what I write to radiate my love for God and man. I do aim to not push my beliefs on my readers, nor will my writing always have a theological undertone, but a "scarlet thread" will be in what I write. I will make a call to action for repentance and faith when my heart is pressed to do so. As that is what I am called to do and want to do.

"For so the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have set you as a light to the Gentiles, That you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth."-Acts 13:47

"If I deny Christ before man, so to will he deny me before his father."-Matt 10:33.

An aspiration to love and, obey God has developed this past 8 years and is now woven into the fabric of my being. To remove that is to sever the imperative of my literary aspirations, the source of my creative mind. To create is to draw from god's ocean of variability. More things are probable than improbable, with a mind who holds together the universe, in a balance of chaos and order.

Back to indigenous cultures and oral traditions. 

Archeology describes how people on all continents on earth except Antarctica, have primitive nomadic ancestors who had their entire culture, knowledge and religion recorded by means of oral tradition. They had to master the stories to the letter, not by how it was written but by memory. Oral tradition, and glyphs, predate the Phoenician alphabet, which is the origins of most written language.

Sumerian is the oldest language I have learned of that's verifiable. And it is the oldest by scientific consensus generally. The clay Sumerian tablets with cuneiform script, did contain history, cultural and religious information but mostly recorded trade and accounting information for merchants and relevant government nobles and scribes.

Oral recitation, and memorizing one's cultural knowledge, wisdom, and history is a valuable skill lost to most people alive today. Only a small minority of tribal people across the globe still have this ability, as do certain monks and scribes of varying religions. The example that most easily comes to my mind are Jewish rabbis memorizing the torah.

Some thoughts on education and learning:

Learn the new and the old, adapt, evolve, and develop. Niche down, then niche out.

I believe that to live a complete, fulfilled life, a person should aim to be a complete human. The holistic man studies the old ways, learns the useful relevant skills of the past. The best of modern knowledge that is mental and experiential, advances of technology, use the library of the collective human mind, to aid me in my thinking. To solve any problem I can using old and new tools, ideas, habits. Education has a blend of the past and present.

A need for Creativity in Education, Work and Life.

Those who manage to learn how to learn, and find what style of education suits them best will do far more, have greater courage, competence, and fulfillment in their work, than the students who attend some ivy league university and don't know how to get to work until they are trained anyway to do the job they went to school for.

If we are to be a skilled people who know a craft, trade, or business, we must have creativity. Without that we become a homogenized and lack any unique features to set us apart from our neighbors. The K-12 education we have discourages and even punishes creativity.

My story of Art and Punishment.

I had a habit of drawing in school. I drew a lot, on my homework, schoolwork, on journals and sketchbooks. When my parents went grocery shopping, I’d use scraps of paper. Even receipts and coupons if I didn’t take a tablet. In store’s I’d sit on an aisle shelf drawing as mom or dad got food. My teachers ripped up drawings of mine probably 5 or 6 times in just elementary school alone. I was shamed for sketching on papers and my teachers thought ill of me. In restaurants my mom would complain that I wasn't paying attention to our family if we were out eating and visiting family or friends. Occasionally on these outings she would also dig her nails into my wrist, as i was an embarrassment to her. My head was just in the clouds I suppose, ignoring the drama of her and my dad.

My mom Cheryl has changed so much, and is now one of my favorite people. But as a child I had felt like I shamed my mom with my art. My sketchbook was a safety blanket. But as an only child born out of wedlock, with separated parents drawing became more than a cute hobby, it was a source of active therapy that got me through some of the darkest parts of my childhood. I'm aware that my story is not special nor am I complaining of my trials in life. Compared to most of the world I am blessed. My life was a cakewalk from an objective point of view. These stories are examples. To provide relatability, clarity and to give readers better context behind my loathing of public education in the USA.

Another story. My mother and stepfather humiliated me in front of my family; at a Yacht club my grandma was a part of. It was a funeral for my grandpa who was a pilot in desert storm. A relative asked me, what I wanted to be? I was maybe 11. Well, I had many ideas growing up okay probably like you. I told them my dream was to be a movie/and game concept artist. They looked at each other and laughed with a fake endearing smirk that gave off "How cute, he's so naive". Then they told me that I'd have a hard time making a living since there is no money in art. The sad part is my stepdad is an artist, a fabulous artist. And I know they don't remember this, and now this would make them feel bad. My point with this little sob story is not narcissism it’s to show that a creative mind is not valued in this culture.

Unless your born in Silicon Valley, have autism, know how to code in 5 languages, and walk around in your apartment painting in your underwear and happened to be related to someone like Steve Jobs, creativity is strained out of most people. Its viewed as something childish or just a hobby.

The United States department of education along with that of California has set the fine arts, heritage crafts, trades, on the back burner. Actually, they have it in the driveway next to the trashcan. It’s that rake you use when sweeping up your dog’s crap. That is the picture of creativity we are conditioned and trained to have. And is a big reason why artists and heritage craftsmen are no longer valued. It’s discouraged.

Arts such as painting, music, drama, dance, wood, metal shop, auto shop were off limits to me for 9 of my 12 years in school. Even technological subjects requiring creativity such as S.T.E.M. Examples of stem fields are electronics, mechanical engineering, robotics, Software engineering.

Wood shop class, music appreciation, art and drama were for other people, not "bad students" like me. These electives were a permission that was granted if I had good grades. The same goes for sports and physical training, just a privilege. I was in wrestling for almost 4 months, I loved it, never felt better in school. My had got C's D's and F's so I was removed from the team before finishing my 10th grade year.

I wanted to play soccer and foot ball too, but you needed higher than C's and I usually had a D average until my 12 grade year. I graduated from an independent study charter school, which allowed me to get a 1 year head start on college. In 12th grade I had a 3.5 GPA. So environment, school model, and curriculum are huge for success in school. It also helps to have a great teacher who cares about the students learning and overall wellbeing. A couple times i have had such teachers.

I've always enjoyed learning most subjects. But its being forced to sit in a chair and not go outside for longer than 1 hour a day to move and exercise, and not being able to be alone, think, or create is what I believe exacerbates the situation of inept youth and people my age or younger incompetent in life. This usually most often makes people hate school, learning, and despise history, reading writing and math specifically. In school I was usually with 20 to 40 other people and several loud disruptive people to faithfully distract me who were no happier than I was. I already struggled with attention and focus even if I was isolated in a quiet place. So, yeah I hardly had any creative outlets in school.

Miraculously I managed to take 3 art classes in my 12 years and that was when I was much older. I automatically was accepted into an AP art class in 11th grade when I spoke to the teacher the first week of class, showed her my work and experience I didn't have to take prerequisites or test in even. I convinced her of my level of competence with illustration. The 11th grade was perhaps my greatest year of creativity in all of my 12 years of school.

For me in my youth, shop class was an elective I could never have as we were cycled through many creative classes. Case in point, I never learned woodshop as my woodshop teacher spent three months forcing us to remember rules and safety policies. I didn't make anything more than a group of sanded sticks; some helical ornament I never had enough time and focus to finish. Most shop type classes in my time and today are castrated or altogether abolished.

Employers, parents, and older people wonder where we hit our heads to make us so dumb, to put common sense as uncommon. Some rare trait to be found in a minority of people now. Start here, even before reading and writing. let the kids move, make things, break things, play outside to get sunlight, to break some bones and eat some dirt.

John Taylor Gatto, the award-winning schoolteacher and great author of many books on education argues in some of his essays and book chapters that play, social, and sometimes dangerous life experiences are more critical at younger ages even until teen years. And that many times he has been able to teach a child to read and write in less than a year. As well as practical arithmetic and mathematics.

Gatto could achieve bring the child to competency in something like 3 to five months from what I remember as listened to his books, while working earlier this summer.

These are Gatto’s relevant books.

• Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

• Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

The Importance of practical and experiential knowledge, The Farmer:

This same concept can help illustrate my ideas on what education can look like but currently is scarce in the younger generations. After ww2 the percentage of competent, resourceful, creative and skilled Americans declined. As globalism began to rapidly increase in the post cold war era our diverse competencies narrowed greatly. Wendell Berry often writes essays on how America's workforce is composed of specialists, who do not live where they work or feel the results of their actions. Neither do they see the fruit of their labor. These days, and often discusses the green revolution of industrial agriculture which hastened the destruction of the American family farm. Get big or get out! This specialization divides the city dweller and blinds them to the necessity and the needs of the rural country person who remains vital in supporting the city dwellers necessities and resources now taken for granted.

Since the civil war the vested interests who fund education and industrialization had the intent on creating a system for mass compartmentalized job training, one based on classes, winners and losers, with built in scarcity for our economy to function. Consumer capitalism seeks infinite growth on a finite planet. We have more than enough resources on earth, but our toxic form of compounded consumption appears to multiply annually. This model of economic system has to change, it starts with us taking hold of our own re-education as adults and taking action for our children's sake.

So what exactly do I mean when I mention the farmers school? Here is an example.

In The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry states his angle of what composes a good farmer.

" A competent farmer is his own boss. He has learned the disciplines necessary to go ahead on his own, as required by economic obligation, loyalty to his place, pride in his work. His work days require the use of long experience and practiced judgment, for the failures of which he knows he will suffer. His days do not begin and end with rule, but in response to necessity, interest, and obligation. They are not measured by the clock, but by the task and his endurance; they last as long as necessary or as long as he can work. He has mastered intricate formal patterns in ordering his work within the overlapping cycles—human and natural, controllable and uncontrollable—of the life of a farm."

There are some attributes here that can be applied to many crafts or trades or modern occupations as much of this is mindset and lifestyle. There comes a point when we have to come to terms with how our society is hell bent on infinite consumption. Or choose to remain oblivious and willfully ignore this reality. This "farmer" archetype, Berry often writes about is a man rooted in his native world, his town village or county. Connected to a people who the farmer knows and is thus known himself. It is far more difficult to achieve this in cities, but I believe this is possible, it must start with individual action.

For a millennial in the United States or someone even younger who has spent 12 years sitting at a desk for obedience training you may have no interest in any of this. You likely think I'm crazy for suggesting learning experimentation and trying out lots of things and being uncomfortable.

Briefly, consider your experience and the instability of the jobs we have now days. If you have had a cake walk professionally, then honestly, you're in the top 10 percent and made a few smart moves. If you can’t relate to any of this trouble with job stability and economic outlook then perhaps you are living under a rock to focused on gaming, porn, fantasy-football, or TikTok. layoffs due to automation and AI are only on the rise. You probably don't work in the industry that you majored in. Neither do I. And if you did you probably don't make enough to live well on and likely carry a massive debt burden. I do not have any debt, but I have been in school and college myself, so I speak with humility out of experience on the subject of education and skill acquisition.

Adults from the 90's and most children of the last 25 years, don't have a voice or a backbone, we lack confidence, personal agency and grit. And we are not good with money. We are largely incompetent as adults. Execution is a spectator sport wed rather watch a tutorial on then play. We stay idle on the bench in the world, and watch vicariously as others take action, show up in life, fail, recover, and make home runs. To unlearn and rewire the subconscious is painfully difficult but still possible for those who care to make farming an endeavor. This idea of education though applies to many walks of life, so see past my ethical sales pitch for farming. It applies to blue-collar, white-collar workers, folks in tech or STEM fields, and the service sector for example. Diversify you self! This idea is diversifying yourself and learn how to make soap and mend clothes like grandma, to repair a vehicle or home and make your own tools like grandpa with junk if your too broke. Developing social skills, learn to public speak, negotiate, and use rhetoric to get people to help you or barter using a trade from one skill to another. If you're a doctor and have an interest in local food, help the local orchard with their inputs or support a local CSA or Farmers markets. I don't have all the answers just some ideas as examples. We need to help each other more regardless of the economy going into boom or bust.

I am critical of the current idea of being a specialist, who is college trained for being a clerk, in an office, or a lab or even a construction yard. Being a specialist and mastering a skill I am not against. Intellectual and physical complacency, stagnation of the human is what I am against. This often comes from being a specialist with tunnel vision. Tunnel vison in certain contexts is great, but there is no place for it here.

BUT WAIT, THERES MORE! 

Thank you for reading this, but we aren’t done yet. I will be posting part two next. I have it written, i just need to sit down and transfer it into my newsletter format from my Kortex Workspace. Part 2 should be up in 1 to 3 days at most I expect.

That’s it for today.

Keep reading, keep writing, question everything and keep on being the independent thinker you are!

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