I didn't come up with this sentence; my mentor, Klaus Steilmann, a German billionaire in the last century, often said to me, “Successful living means lifelong learning.” A successful and fulfilling life, however, means the daily application of LIVE WITHOUT LIMITS, which means lifelong learning.
Lifelong learning is the basis of every successful life. Anyone who still believes in 2024 that they will complete an apprenticeship or degree and be able to succeed in their entire professional life is on the wrong track and will fail miserably. Fortunately, fewer people in the USA have always believed this than in Europe.
Lifelong learning has always been the basis of success and is still the foundation of today's so-called knowledge society. I go one step further. I am firmly convinced that the traditional forms of education at universities are overrated and outdated. In terms of job placement, many decision-makers are little interested in the degree but much more interested in the other activities of an applicant in their life. School and studies are primarily irrelevant if you meet the right people. I have never read certificates and have always been indifferent to applicants' further education. I look at the person and decide.
Social activities, extracurricular and non-university education, sports, and other talents always count much more than a degree. I have expressly advised my children not to study (even if they don't stick to it ;-)) because you can use this time much more wisely. At LIVE WITHOUT LIMITS and other good programs, they learn more for life than at schools and universities.
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Outside the education system organized by the state and interested groups, everyone learns much more about LIVE WITHOUT LIMITS because they can learn from people amid life. Over 90% of all teachers and university lecturers are blind people who talk about color. And a large proportion of them are lazy, stinking lazy. That's why they work where they work, which is the worst when the government organizes it.
As a university lecturer, I learned this the hard way myself. Never before and never since have I had more unfit and frustrated employees as the workforce there. I was always shocked at how unmotivated and uninterested many students were in learning. That's why I quickly gave up this service to the community (the payment was too bad to call it a job or side gig).
Only in the USA did I realize how meaningless university education is. The college system produces degrees that nobody needs and often completely misses life's reality. I have tried three times to give interns a chance in my company. Three times, it failed. Never before have I seen more incompetent, unrealistic, and poorly trained people who approach an employer with an attitude bordering on megalomania regarding their expectations. They can do nothing and expect a great deal.
If you now say, “Yes, they gave you the bad ones,” I must disappoint you. They gave me the best of the year three times, which had a dramatic impact on my image of the USA. Many things are worse in Europe than the USA, but I have not seen such bad students (top of the class!!!) in Europe in decades. The difference? In Europe, studying costs (almost) nothing.
The knowledge and problem-solving ability of graduates from state colleges often need to reach that of a motivated first-year apprentice in Germany (there is no comparable training system in the USA; vocational schools are not equivalent). Students at such colleges and universities are customers in the USA. They pay astronomical tuition fees (30 - 100,000 USD p.a.) for an often grotesquely poor education, leaving them standing at the cash register at McDonald's afterward. The German trainee receives $1,000 a month and learns a trade.
It's even worse with elite universities like Harvard, Yale, and other Yvi-League hoaxes. They undoubtedly increase self-confidence but rarely competence.
Furthermore, it gets even worse with all the DEI bullshit. I often gave diversity, equity, and inclusion a chance and failed. I have tested many people from these protected groups at the universities, and I learned the hard way every time. There is no equity in knowledge. However, the overconfidence of the protected groups is often even worse than those who are told they are the best.
If all universities had closed and students had invested less money in non-university continuing education programs, many of them would have flourished.
What do we learn from this?
Not all learning is the same!
Traditional education has had its day in many areas of life and is being replaced by new forms of learning. In many cases, what has been considered good and successful for decades has outlived its usefulness. In this respect, organizing your lifelong learning outside the beaten track is important. This is an essential basis for success in 2024.
Nothing isn't taught better or exclusively outside of schools and universities, from marketing to motivation, from IT to medicine—yes, especially medicine. The world does not need the doctors that the university system produces worldwide because, in large numbers, they are nothing more than salespeople for the pharmaceutical industry.
Lifelong learning is about finding, experiencing, erasing, and leaving behind your limitations throughout your life—applying the FEEL method. Daily, never-ending learning is the basis for successful, limitless living. That is why LIVE WITHOUT LIMITS means continuously and simultaneously lifelong learning.
Learning is the never-ending basis of the FEEL loop inherent in LIVE WITHOUT LIMITS. The permanent limit crosser expands his limits day by day, week by week, month by month, and year by year. Human beings never stop growing and developing.
As soon you understand this and integrate it to your life you will understand every day better and better:
The best is yet to come!
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