Yeah that’s right; you heard me… I’m talking to you… I’m
calling you out.
I’m looking you in the eyes, (ok well, not really since you
are probably reading this article, but figuratively, I am burning a cyclops
type hole in your face right now) and telling you that you don’t stand a
chance.
I’m telling you that if you can read this article, look
through this list and not claim it as your own, then you should be a little
worried.
Actually, you should be very worried. You should drop
everything and immediately question your existence on earth. You should find a
mirror, look yourself in the eyes, raise your hand and slap yourself in the
face.
Got it? Now repeat that until you come to your senses and
continue reading whenever you’re ready.
I’m Talkin’ ‘Bout Street Skills Son!
I’m not talking about the: study hard, party light, graduate
top-of-your-class skills.
I’m not even talking about the: slack-off, skip class, smoke
weed, drink and party but still graduate, skill-set your $50,000+ diploma has
lead you to believe you have.
“I’m talking
’bout, step out your door, make some moves, and get-some-shit-done, kind of
skills! Some, move out your mama’s house, quit your job — say “fuck the
world” — and then actually go do it, kind of skills”.
The kind of skills you develop in the real world, outside
the bubble of your parents protection or the ideological indoctrination that
has overwhelmed our entire educational system.
Skills that can be had by anyone willing to pay the price to
get them. Skills that are quickly becoming extinct.
I’m talking about skills that cannot be taught in a
classroom or in a textbook. Skills you can only learn by doing; by learning how
to fly after jumping off the cliff.
Skills that can only be developed when you find your true
self. When you put yourself on the line or otherwise expose yourself to the
possibility of failure.
Because you are comfortable in your mediocrity; because you
choose not to try.
Because it is easier to talk about learning that new
(programming?) language as opposed to actually learning it.
Because you think everything is too hard or too complicated
so you will just “sit this one out”, or maybe you’ll, “do-it-tomorrow”!
Because you hate your job but won’t get a new one; because
it is easy to reject rejection.
Because while you’re sitting around failing to try, I am out
there trying to fail, challenging myself, learning new things and failing as
fast as possible.
Because as I fail, I learn, and then adjust my course to
make sure my path is always forward. Like the process of annealing steel, I’ve
been through the fire and pounded into shape. The shape of a sword with
polished edges and a razor sharp blade that will cut you in half if you are not
equally hardened.
2 :: Because You Care What Others Think About You
Because you have to fit in.
Because you believe that being different is only cool if
you’re different in the same way that other people are different.
Because you are afraid to embrace your true self for fear of
how the world will see you. You think that because you judge others, this means
that those people must, in-turn, be judging you.
Because you care more about the stuff you have as opposed to
the things you’ve done.
Because while you’re out spending your money on new outfits,
new cars, overpriced meals or nights at the bar, I’ll be investing in myself.
And while you try to fit in with the world I’ll make the world fit in with me.
Because I will
recklessly abandon all insecurities and expose my true self to the world. I
will become immune to the impact of your opinion and stand naked in a crowd of
ideas; comfortable in knowing that while you married the mundane I explored the
exceptional.
3 :: Because You Think You Are Smarter Than You Are
Because you did what everyone else did; you studied what
they studied and read what they read.
Because you learned what you had to learn in order to pass
their tests and you think that makes you smart.
Because you think learning is only something people do in
schools.
Because while you were away at college, I was studying life;
because instead of learning about the world in a classroom I went out and
learned it by living.
Because I know more than any piece of paper you could ever
frame from a university. Because smart is not what you learn, it’s how you
live.
Because I might not have a degree but I challenge you to
find a topic that I can’t talk to you about cohesively.
Because I could pass your tests if I had to, but you
couldn’t stand for a single second in the face of the tests that life has
thrown me. Tests that are not graded on a bell curve or by percentages; tests
that are graded by one simple stipulation: survival!
4 :: Because You Don’t Read
Because you read the things you are required to read or
nothing at all.
Because you think history is boring and philosophy is
stupid.
Because you would rather sit and watch “E!” or “MTV” instead
of exploring something new, instead of diving head first, into the brain of
another man in an attempt to better understand the world around you.
Because you refuse to acknowledge that all the power in the
world comes from the words of those that lived before us. That anything you
desire can be had by searching through the multitude of words that are
available to us now more abundantly than ever before.
Because you are probably not reading this article even
though you know you should.
Because the people that are reading this already know these
things.
Because you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him
drink.
5 :: Because You Lack Curiosity
Because you get your news from copy-cat members of the
state-controlled media.
Because you are unwilling to ask this simple question… “What
if it’s all a lie?”, and accept the possibility that maybe it is; that just
maybe, the methods of mass media are under direct orders to: keep you
distracted.
Because you call me a know-it-all but refuse to call
yourself a know-nothing-at-all.
Because I thirst for knowledge, regardless the topic.
Because while you’re busy playing Candy Crush, or
Megalopolis, I am reading about string theory and quantum mechanics.
Because while you waste your time with Tosh.o I am learning
how to edit video, build websites and design mobile apps.
Because if we were to go heads-up in a debate, I would crush
you. I would make it a point to defeat my own argument; from every imaginable
angle; in order to understand everything you might be able to use against me.
Because I would dedicate myself to understanding both sides
of the argument so thoroughly that I could argue your side for you and win;
even after having just handed you a defeat in the same debate.
6 :: Because You Don’t Ask Enough Questions
Because you do not question authority.
Because you don’t question yourself.
Because you don’t understand the power of properly placed
questioning in life, respectful disagreements and standing up for what you know
to be right in the face of someone telling you otherwise. Unable to question
reality; stuck in a self imposed survival strategy within a matrix-style
monotony.
Because I know that you will give me all the information I
need to destroy you by letting you talk.
Because I study human behaviors and you ignore everyone but
yourself.
Because I watch how you say the things you say just as
closely as I listen to what you say; and you say way too much!
Because control comes, not from spewing your ignorance like
some incurable case of logorrhea, but from properly structuring the context of
your questions.
Because I study the premise of your argument and destroy it
from the ground level before you even get a chance to establish your ideas.
7 :: Because You Can’t Handle The Truth
Because you refuse to admit that you don’t even know the
things you don’t know.
Because there isn’t an article online that would make up for
all the time you have wasted in life.
Because even if I told you everything could be different
tomorrow you would wait until then to begin doing anything about it.
Because even when you think I’m not, I’m aware of my
surroundings.
Because you think that since I have not acknowledged you, it
means that I have not seen you.
Because, you walk around with your head up your ass,
oblivious to the world around you. Blissfully ignorant of the reality that sits
so close to your face that if you stuck your tongue out, just once, you would
taste it and realize how delicious the truth actually is.
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