The person in charge of teaching has a lot of power to spread knowledge and elevate us to the next level. When we’re robbed of that opportunity, we feel cheated.
In school, there were a couple of teachers who defined the term ‘teacher’s pet’ for me. Select students were lavished with extra attention and fawned upon. No doubt this was disconcerting to the rest of the students who were forced to play second fiddle. This phenomenon isn’t relegated only to school.
This is the crux of the issue:
When extra attention and help is given to a select few, it feels like they have more opportunities to learn.
The person in charge of teaching has a lot of power to spread knowledge and elevate us to the next level. When we’re robbed of that opportunity, we feel cheated. Hoarding money may be profitable to the hoarder but hoarding knowledge is of use to no one.
Today, we’re living in a day and age when learning has become more accessible than ever.
The Khan Academy is non-profit that offers free online lessons for students. It’s a wonderful initiative that makes learning accessible to millions of students the world over.
IDEOU, a part of the acclaimed design services company IDEO, has some wonderful courses that I want to sign up for.
Jarrod Kimber, one of the best cricket writers around, has a course for aspiring sportswriters called Fans with Laptops on Teachable. The best thing is it costs just a little over 3,000 rupees!
Skillshare and Udemy have innumerable courses on a host of topics from pottery to leadership.
Podcaster Bijay Gautam runs a course to help aspiring podcasters get off the ground with their podcast.
Masterclass allows you to study how greats like Carlos Santana, Neil Gaiman, Malcom Gladwell and many others go about their respective craft.
Some of these may apply to you and some may not.
The amount of great, engaging content that you can leverage to equip yourself with better skills and knowledge is endless. More importantly, putting what you learn into practice will define how much success you will experience in your life and career. By no means is knowledge accumulation enough by itself.
But this much is clear — today, you don’t have to be anyone’s favourite to learn or gather knowledge. That excuse has been tossed out of the window.
The only question left to ask is — how much do you want to learn?
