The Opportunity of Despair

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Speaker 1 (0s): Welcome back to the TrueLife podcast. It is December. I haven't spoken to everybody for a while, but I've been thinking about you. I hope you're all doing well. I hope your kids are out of school. I hope they're learning. I hope your parents are healthy and all your loved ones, or are still talking to you. I have been fascinated by the world that we live in. As of recently, in some ways it's incredibly depressing and I'll go into that in a minute. 

However, I think it was Rami manual who said never let a good crisis go to waste. And it's so true that the opportunities that surround us right now are equally as overwhelming as the feeling of despair. Let me try to flesh that out a little bit, you know, right now is as much as people are being locked down. 

I think there's a whole lot of freedom. I think right now, people in positions of authority are desperately trying to reorganize society in a way that they seem to see fit. They want to change what we're thinking about. They want to change the world we live in and they want to change the environment around us, fundamentally changing small businesses for large corporations, changing the tax structure, changing society. 

It's the great reset. And it's the build back better. If you want to look into more detail on that, like there's certain think tanks that you could subscribe to, like the McKinsey Institute, you know, you can look at the bill and Melinda gates foundation website, and you can kind of see the direction in which people want to go, but just because people want to go in a direction, doesn't mean that's the direction we're going to go into. And that is where the freedom and the opportunity, I believe lie for everyday working people now more than ever. 

I think that we, and by we, I mean, obviously anybody who's listening to this has the opportunity to make big changes. Let me give an example of education as an, as just a quick example. So think for a moment about this great experiment that COVID-19 has thrust upon the world of education. There's a fantastic study at a, I think it's education.gov or in ces.gov. 

And it talks about the educational aspects of what happened in 2021. And it's, it's, it's really fascinating it's it goes into different ethnic groups. It goes into a single parents and then it classifies how all the kids are performing. It says, I think there's all these different charts and it's pretty much a child's education performance. 

And then it breaks down into other charts about it goes into different races. And it says like, you know, white parents who are married are about 70% and 20% of white children live with their mom and 10% live with their dad. And then it goes into like Asian parents, Asian parents. This is probably no surprise to anybody who, who can, who sees Asian, Asian children excelling at school, Asian children have their parents married at about 84%. 

And you know, it's like 6% live with their mom. And then the remainder of what their dad, it's sad to see that in the black community, there is something like 50% of black children come from a home with married parents and then like, you know, 40% or 45% live with their mom and a single mother household. And then like a small percentage of what their dad. 

And then it goes into Pacific Islander, which is a rather high percent. I think it's 60% and it really breaks down stuff. Not, I don't, I don't say to, to, to make it like a race thing, but more like a, a cultural thing kind of, you know, it's and then if it continues to go on and talks about schools that don't have a lot of money and how they perform during the pandemic. And obviously the poorer schools performed worse. 

The children that only had one parent performed considerably worse. And you can understand why. I mean, if your kid's on has to learn on zoom and they're five or six years old, and then you as a parent have to be there to help them be on zoom, you know, and you're a single person you're probably working. You might not be able to be there. You know, the reason I bring all this up is we were talking about education and COVID-19 and, and opportunities will this process of education. 

This process of COVID-19 is a transition. You see, I don't know. Let me try to put it in pop culture a little bit. Has anybody seen that movie ready player one, or hopefully you read the book because the book is a million times better than the way they actually wrote the movie, the movies, it looks kind of lame. However, it doesn't change the fact that people put on a headset and they go to school, right? They put on a headset and they, they learn from people from God knows where. 

And you think about that. Like, if you think about it in an imaginative creative way, it sounds kind of awesome. Imagine being in a digital school where you could have the best teachers from the world, giving you a virtual tour of the Colosseum and you could, you know, you could probably be like a, a Roman warrior and you could be in the Coliseum fighting and you could learn so much about it. And that ideal sounds awesome. The problem is that's not what's happening and it's not, what's going to happen. 

It's, that's more of a, that's a headset with rose colored glasses. What we see is that without discipline, without structure, children are not going to learn. You know, and it's this, I deal, listic utopian vision of saving every child. But in reality, it's just a way for corporations to, you know, force people into a virtual world because the real world around them is crumbling and dying. 

Not to mention, if you think about a lot of education in public school, you know, you have to ask yourself, is it education or is it indoctrination? It's more indoctrination, I think. And so the opportunity comes in where you as an individual right now, like you, you could start a YouTube channel, you could start your own method of teaching kids things. And if it could catch on, like, there's no reason why it can't catch on my daughter watches this show called Ryan's world. 

And it's just about this family that like plays games and they do experiments and they're like a really good family. And they do these things together. And a lot of kids watch it. And it's a, it's a beautiful understanding of what a loving family could contribute to the world, I think. And so that's where the opportunity is, especially if you know, everybody, you know, is probably unique in some way and has different ways of expressing themselves or communicating ways. 

Or everybody knows that person who is like really good with kids, or it's just interesting or has fun things to say there's always positive. And the chances are you listening to this, probably have some of those qualities. And if you have those qualities that are beneficial to society, I think you're almost obligated to share them. I know what can be scary to start a channel or start a podcast. However, think about what you're doing now. Like, what are you doing right now? Are you I'm working on a Saturday? 

Like I had to get up, leave my house, leave my family. So I could work six days a week, you know, like 60 plus hours a week. And I would much rather take some time to provide awesome ideas and content to try and make the world a little bit better than get up and leave my family and everything I love and help a large corporation make tons of money. 

So it's just an idea that there is opportunity out there for everybody. And I want to try to shine a light in some of the...