They Don't Teach You This In School — The Stuff You Really Should Be Learning

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How Steve Jobs decides how to live his life

April 19, 2011 / Articles, Business, Careers, Life

Surely the large majority of you will have heard of Steve Jobs – he’s the CEO and one of the co-founders of Apple, which is arguably one of the most successful companies to have ever been created. In 2005, Jobs gave a speech at Stanford University. In it, he shares a lot of his personal experiences, and explains how they have helped him shape his thinking. I have never heard a speech more inspiring, that truly made me think about my life and where it’s going. Here I’m going to outline a few of the key quotes in his speech, and briefly discuss each

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Salman Khan: How everybody in the world can be educated through video

April 10, 2011 / Education, Videos

Salman Khan discusses his creation, the Khan Academy – a website with thousands of educational videos on all different topics, from maths to science to history. He also talks about how websites like his, that utilize video, can be used to educate everyone in the world. His key point is how video should be combined with a change in view of the classroom – ie. homework should be done in class, and the lectures should be given at home.

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Is university worth it? Josh Kaufman on how to decide.

March 25, 2011 / Articles, Careers, Education

Is university worth it?

That’s probably one of the biggest questions any of us will have to make in the next few years. For some of us, the answer may already seem obvious – “Of course it is!”. But why is it obvious? Is it because it will help you do what you want to do in life? Or is it obvious because your parents have told you so

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The importance of being skeptical (and an alternative view of climate change)

March 25, 2011 / Articles, Environment, Life

One problem that will always face us as human beings is who to believe when presented with a variety of differing viewpoints. Action on these can be drastic, with severe social, economical, and environmental impacts.

We are currently being presented with the future of the planet in our hands. People say that human actions are causing what’s known as “anthropogenic climate change” – basically equating to human CO2 emissions causing an increase in global temperatures

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Adele Barlow – You Don’t Have To Follow Your Parents

March 25, 2011 / Careers, Life, Videos

In her second video for TDTYTIS, Adele tells us that we don’t necessarily have to follow in our parents footsteps. As long as we take into account our parents’ advice, we can follow our dreams, she says

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Sir Ken Robinson – Changing Education Paradigms

March 10, 2011 / Education, Videos

This is a video from the RSA’s (Royal Society for the Arts) archives on YouTube. In it, Sir Ken Robinson talks about what education in the world SHOULD be like. I urge you to watch it, because as a student you’ll be able to relate completely to what Robinson talks about – and I think you’ll have many suggestions of your own!

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What We Have In The Works (and get in touch with us!)

March 9, 2011 / Articles

Hey everyone, Michael Moore-Jones here – I’m the founder of They Don’t Teach You This In School. I just wanted to write a short post and tell you all about some things we have in the works, and some plans we have for the future

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Simon Yule – Be Your Own Salesperson

March 1, 2011 / Business, Careers, Life, Social, Videos

Simon Yule is a New Zealander born and raised in Canterbury, who currently lives in Wellington and works in marketing for Mainfreight. He’s an incredibly interesting guy to talk to, and always has interesting thoughts.

Here Simon shares the lesson that being a “salesperson” isn’t just about business. He says that to be successful, we need to be our own salesperson every day, from the moment we wake up until the moment we go to sleep

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Adele Barlow – Importance of Goal Setting

February 22, 2011 / Education, Life, Videos

Adele Barlow has grown up globally, and is one of the co-founders of yMedia, an organisation in New Zealand that connects tertiary students with not-for-profit groups. She is now living in London working on various projects. Her blog is www.adelebarlow.com.

Here she shares the lesson that we need to learn to set goals, because they’re a lot more important than the goals we’re forced to make close to exam time

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TDTYTIS is an ever-growing library of life lessons and advice.

As each generation grows up, individuals will make mistakes and learn a huge amount. But they don't stop to pass the lessons that they've learned onto younger generations. Therefore, each generation grows up making the same mistakes and using up time that they could be using creatively.

The videos and articles here on TDTYTIS will allow you to learn from the combined knowledge and experience of other generations, so that you can be more effective in whatever you do in life.