DSY 7 - Jumping off the conveyor belt: Deschooling in action with T.K. Coleman

Praxis Education Director T.K. Coleman joins us to talk about next steps in the deschooling process. Themes we discuss include: Self-analysis - Deciding whether you are a school - Do you have wounds from school? Are you schooled (we’ve covered this, but it should be a formal self-analysis with serious thought) - Do you desire individuation? Do you desire to deschool Getting rid of school behavior and thought process - Releasing the school/work mentality - Get off the conveyor belt (or the treadmill) - Developing intrinsic self-esteem - Knowing what you don’t want to do - Rejecting appeals to authority - Reassessing obligation - Decoupling your identity from school, university and job Lifetime learning - Rekindling a love of learning - Just in time learning vs. just in case learning - Getting an education - Becoming the learner that fits you Taking control of your life - Creating and value creation - Entrepreneurship or the entrepreneur heart. - Rethinking your schedule - Ending permission-seeking - Willingness to accept the possibility that what you love is something you have yet to discover - Embracing risk - Calculating the cost of risk and change (there’s usually none) - Creating your own voice (writing, podcasting, video)