Successful at School, Failing in Life
A friend of mine complained the other day that his son was top of his class all his life. Everybody expected him to be successful at work, but disappointingly he fell miserably. This isn’t a rare incident and happens frequently. We all need to understand why. This buzz is an attempt to answer the why.
Our live a rhythm. This rhythm I believe it is analogous to the rhythm of our hearts. We can detect the rhythm of our hearts. When our varying heart rate is plotted over time, the overall shape of the waveform produced is called the heart rhythm pattern. This rhythm changes with our feelings. This becomes chaotic if we experience strong feelings and emotions and notably negative feelings such as anger. The rhythm is almost regular when at peace.
The successful student had a life of regular rhythm. Doing great at school, getting compliments and rewards for his achievements and being listed on the honor list. Easy life his was till he graduated. Life exposed him to its chaos. Demands at work, gossiping from jealous and less-qualified employees and frustration resulting from not being able to resolve life problems as he used at school. The poor student was prepared for success within limited boundaries. Once he was thrown outside them he failed to comply with its requirements. He became fragile like glass.
Success in life has different parameters and especially during our turbulent times. Like a plant used to grow well in fresh water, but once you add little salty water the plant dies. Likewise; the student had a sweet life, but all of a sudden he was exposed to the salty experiences at work. Why then some plants can get away with living in salty waters? How can we do the same? Or, why would a plant survive nearby the salty Dead Sea? These plants managed to develop deep roots so as to reach even traces of sweet water in the depth. Over time, plants developed multi-pronged strategies to cope with the salty environment. One strategy is having special salt-excreting glands on leaves. Another is the exclusion of salt from entering roots with water uptake (avoidance strategy).
Life is like an experimental pot. You have your plant of success growing, but you never know who would change the ingredients of the pot or the surrounding conditions. A little boy may add salt to it, a sudden exposure to burning sunlight, or whatever. Sudden exposures might kill. The only way to make the plant build resilience first to expose we need to expose it gradually to conditions outside its comfort zone. By adding a little salt first and probe what happens. This way the rhythm of life becomes less regular to which it may adapt and learn.
We need to expose people to the chaotic rhythm of life. Successful people may need this more than the unsuccessful ones.
Expose people gradually to conditions that they don’t favor. We can’t lead a normal life in conditions that aren’t normal. It is as simple as that. If not, our hearts’ rhythm will stay chaotic because we didn’t prepare to meet chaos with a smaller dose of chaos. This is the antidote.
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Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #71
You moved me with this line in your comment Sara Jacobovici. It is " In a way, we do a disservice to the successful student to have him or her assume that things can be the same once they complete their academic education. I appreciate your analogy". This is a great point. I believe the root cause to it is our tendency to think linearly and extrapolate the past to the future. We extend success at school to success in life. The students are not to blame for they are still inexperienced. We are the ones responsible to expose them to "real life" so that they may realize the non-linearity of life. Thank you again dear Sara for your comment is concise and to the point.
Sara Jacobovici
منذ 6 سنوات #70
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #69
thank you Lada \ud83c\udfe1 Prkic
Lada 🏡 Prkic
منذ 6 سنوات #68
You don't need to thank me, Ali. :-) Your posts are more than worth sharing. I'm sorry for not commenting lately, but I always try to read those I see on my wall. There's always something to learn from your posts. Regards.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #67
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #66
thank you Yolanda \u00c1vila M\u00e1rquez and I am checking on the book as soon as I post this comment. I loved your comment. You are very correct "Many people achieve success in life after overcoming very adverse circumstances but after having lived deep life experiences". I agree with you all the way
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #65
if I have a wish then it is that you made this comment earlier . It would have attracted the attention of other commentors. It is deep. If I have another wish it is that you expand your comment into a buzz. And I truly hope you do.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #64
basically I am interested my friend Vincenzo De Florio. I shall message you tomorrow with my thoughts. It is always an honor to gain your confidence.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #63
Vincenzo De Florio ny dear friend you are spot on. I am relieved that you find the buzz interesting. I fully agree with every word in your subtle comment.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #62
My reply is short and I hope to the point dear Tausif Mundrawala. It is you would have never been where you are now as a respected thinker without the experience that you had as a child.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #61
I wish if I could answer your question CityVP \ud83d\udc1d Manjit. Sometimes I feel logical thinking is not.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #60
If I had the power to distribute your comment worldwide CityVP \ud83d\udc1d Manjit I wouldn't hesitate for a moment. Just at least to absorb your line "...his expectations feel more like an added weight to his son". Why put heavy loads on our kids and then expect them to move fast or freely? How often we tend to forget the basics of life is an issue that amazes me.
CityVP Manjit
منذ 6 سنوات #59
CityVP Manjit
منذ 6 سنوات #58
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #57
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #56
Brian McKenzie sometime the noise is the sokution. It is our assumption it is a noise before having the proof.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #55
thank you Jerry Fletcher for your analytical approach. You wrote "Those that are creative are denied the right to grow and develop way too often". You remind me of a real story. A student asked the teacher about a step in a chemical reaction and its driving force. The response was "it is like that. All you need to do is memorizing the steps". No wonder students quite often hate chemistry even though it is a highly interesting science. Not only we tend to block creativity, but also stop students from logical thinking.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #54
great comment Franci\ud83d\udc1dEugenia Hoffman, beBee Brand Ambassador. The students who failed to turn their output of acsdemic input to input at work. This is a grest way of describing the dilemma.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #53
Paul Walters grest comment in the reverse direction. I believe in it. In my teaching experience my best classes were those night hours students. They worked during the day. Even though they were tired from work they were keen to study. They wanted to couple work experience with academic qualification.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #52
CityVP \ud83d\udc1d Manjit look forward to your engaging comments
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #51
Preston \ud83d\udc1d Vander Ven- sad story, butprovides a real story. Tha nk you for sharing it. Chaos is turning success into failure.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #50
Preston \ud83d\udc1d Vander Ven- sad story, butprovides a real story. Tha nk you for sharing kit.
Jerry Fletcher
منذ 6 سنوات #49
Paul Walters
منذ 6 سنوات #48
CityVP Manjit
منذ 6 سنوات #47
Ironically I am getting ready to go to college for my club meeting. I am free from work and study tomorrow and will join in the conversation at that time.
Lisa Vanderburg
منذ 6 سنوات #46
Me too Harvey....you done right by your kids by keeping vile words like 'winner' and 'loser' out of it!
Harvey Lloyd
منذ 6 سنوات #45
Everyone is a winner. Unfortunately we as a society have decided that in our social aspirations we need to define winning and losing. Winning and losing is a personal concept that has made its way into social engineering. We taught our children very early on that if you want to be average then be average. Greatness is a choice and is defined by the individual. Amazingly one daughter came to us in 11th grade and stated she wished we had pushed her harder as college was looming and her grade point average was average. She raised it and went to the college of here choice. But she did it from her motivation not ours. This was her transition to adulthood. At 14 we began the journey of separation. My wife didn't feel the need nor enjoyed the process. My greatest fear has always been the co-dependency that children can develop with parents. We share a great friendship with our children and grandchildren. But i am relieved to say they both can manage life without me or my wife. Ironically as we age i want to rejoin them in a co-dependency just to be a part of what's going on. But we manage ourselves when to and when not to join. There is a big difference from transitioning children from the nest and kicking them into the world with knowledge from education. I will take savy over smarts anyday.
Lisa Vanderburg
منذ 6 سنوات #44
Harvey Lloyd, you are one of the most successfully-equipped people one could ever have the fortune to meet! Education is a word that should be separated from schooling, as you have taught me so very much!
Lisa Vanderburg
منذ 6 سنوات #43
Absolutely Cyndi wilkins comments are bang on: gimme a grafter any day! As a parent, I encouraged my kids to work part-time in holidays from about age 14. They learned the value of money and better social skills than mere 'education' could teach them. They also did Tae Kwon Do from age 8 (got to 2nd dan BB) to help their confidence and control their emotions to serve them, not work against them!
Lisa Vanderburg
منذ 6 سنوات #42
Couldn't agree more Proma \ud83d\udc1d Nautiyal! Our kids were 6 & 7 when we moved to the US, and we were aghast by the educational 'everyone's a winner' mentality, which may be nice and upbeat but damaging in the long run. This over-effuse approach inevitably leads to splits as kids age, so they came up with answers for that too - kids that weren't 'winning' were labeled with ADD and medicated. So stupid. The American state-school system is pretty damn appalling!
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #41
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #40
Not a buzz is surely worthy without a comment from you my dear Lisa Vanderburg. Your readiness to share your life experiences is amazing. Now, I know what is the theme of my next post. It is about having contradicting feelings. Feelings that are not in harmony with each other (ambivalence). I feel joyful to read your comment with the simultaneity of feelings sad for your endeavored and labored in your childhood as well as now. Will sure reflect on this comment in my next buzz.
Lisa Vanderburg
منذ 6 سنوات #39
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #38
great dad you have as he is still living in your memory and in experiencing life. Yes reading books on different subjects enriches our minds. When reading becomes a habit we keep in the flow because we are not stressed by exams. We read to discover and later on we cross pollinate ideas that we stored in our minds. Relaxation in reading is surely a great way to develop and succeed.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #37
thank yoou Puneet Srivastava. Sounds an interesting idea
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #36
ok three weeks dear Irene \ud83d\udc1d Rodriguez Escolar. Still a great accomplishment
Irene 🐝 Rodriesco
منذ 6 سنوات #35
three weeks, mister Ali \ud83d\udc1d Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBee almost 3000 pages between the three books, the last of them has more than 900
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #34
Prior to reading your comment I addressed my previous comment to my friend Vincenzo De Florio. If his answer is yes then surely I shall write at more depth on this topic. I salute you and your very friendly and words thst are real boosters for me.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #33
🐝 Fatima G. Williams
منذ 6 سنوات #32
Dear Ali \ud83d\udc1d Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBee you know how much I love your writing. Your writing is education to me. The ideas from your treasured mind will/should be shelved in libraries and e-books for generations to come. I would be very happy if you write a buzz with this message as the purpose of your buzz. Our purpose on education shall then find us.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #31
dear Milos Djukic- if I wanted to write the purpose of this buzz I surely would steal your writing "The day schools equip children to draw education from everything they see, hear, their activity, interactions, friendships, failures, success etc etc is the day when true education dawns"! Thank you for drawing my attention to the post of Vincenzo De Florio. He is a great thinker. More than resilience we need antifragile educational systems. Antifragility means ckoming out better than we started when exposed to stress. Who else but dear would reflect on this?
🐝 Fatima G. Williams
منذ 6 سنوات #30
🐝 Fatima G. Williams
منذ 6 سنوات #29
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #28
yes and I agree fully. Your comments and the rest of comments here make me wonder if we need disruptive thinking in education. I wonder what you think Harvey Lloyd
Harvey Lloyd
منذ 6 سنوات #27
There truly isn't a universal fit of education. My thoughts would be to assist our children in exploration, they can find their fit. Great focus and understanding.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #26
Yes, and I truly enjoyed your comment Proma \ud83d\udc1d Nautiyal. You wrote "Which in turn causes them to be negative, depressed, and perpetually upset/complaining". I could not agree more. One of my closest friends who was an A student committed suicide. He left a message that he did so because he felt so depressed that his performancce at work sluggished behind his academic achievements. He could not contain his frustration.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #25
thank you Aaron \ud83d\udc1d Skogen. Success in education is linked to grades but grades failure to be matched with work performance is still way behind.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #24
yes, but to varying degrees. The rate of schools drop out is the proof
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #23
in three days only. Amazing
Proma Nautiyal
منذ 6 سنوات #22
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #21
I don't think you are biased in your perspective Harvey Lloyd. This is well reflected in your writing "Unfortunately the scores do not reflect generalization of the material. They explain knowledge and my ability to memorize certain areas that will be tested". The other day I met with a graduate in electrical engineering and he didn't know Ohn's Law. Yes education should improve the quality of learning as well as qualification for understanding life and its challenges.
Harvey Lloyd
منذ 6 سنوات #20
Harvey Lloyd
منذ 6 سنوات #19
Irene 🐝 Rodriesco
منذ 6 سنوات #18
https://www.lauragallego.com/libros/sagas/memorias-de-idhun/ my oldest son and I read the triology in 3 weeks. housework felt slightly 😅
Irene 🐝 Rodriesco
منذ 6 سنوات #17
I remember that my mother scolded me for reading until dawn, tomorrow you have class, told me. I have to control myself, if a book falls into my hands until I do not finish it, I'm not comfortable. BeBee happens to me, I forget to eat, there are so many interesting articles to learn, and to be inspired...😀
Cyndi wilkins
منذ 6 سنوات #16
Irene 🐝 Rodriesco
منذ 6 سنوات #15
dear Ali anani, I do not judge 😅. I love reading, you learn a lot by reading. with my maor daughter was an ordeal until he discovered the manga (Japanese comics) from there debora, but he does it through the internet, now it is the little one who offers resistance. I read that you do not have to force them in due time they will, I read a lot, now articles written in beBee, like yours.
Zacharias 🐝 Voulgaris
منذ 6 سنوات #14
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #13
for me rewards were incentive to read. Inlessthan two years I developed the ha bit of reading. The effect of rewards became nill.
Irene 🐝 Rodriesco
منذ 6 سنوات #12
#12 also families must educate in resilience. They do not get an idea of what the previous school year of my children has been like for me, because the educational system does not work for everyone, it standardizes the contents and stigmatizes who is different. and families or let themselves be carried away by that collective mass ... or decide to fight against the current, with the stigma that it entails. I never reward the good grades of my sons and daughters, they must learn that it is a good thing, that gives them knowledge. https://www.bebee.com/producer/@mariamerino/mentalidad-colectiva
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #11
Homogenized students is unlike make using of their different talents. I agree with you David Navarro L\u00f3pez. Schools are teaching according to the books and are not preparing students for life. I used to think this is only in developing countries, but seems the issue is global. We need to teach students for life and not only limit them to books that most of them become redundant in few years time.
David Navarro López
منذ 6 سنوات #10
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #9
You remind me of turbulence we created for the bees. Some researches agree that bees are dying because they lost communication because of the interference of the mobile lines with the electromagnetic lines that bees use to navigate and communicate. I hope we aren't ;losing ours as well.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #8
Thank you Irene \ud83d\udc1d Rodriguez Escolar. Your question is challenging. The rhythm of change during my childhood was far less than today. WE only had a black and white TV, and few cinemas. Our time was mostly on playing simple games and reading books. My father used to reward each book we read AND summarized or for each math problems we solved with tickets to the movies. That was our dream. But later, he didn't object to us trying to sell goods to students to get refusals, mocking at us or selling the undesired products. These life lessons taught us a lot. There are experiences in life that unless we practice we shall never appreciate.
Debasish Majumder
منذ 6 سنوات #7
migration is truly intriguing, i guess sir Ali \ud83d\udc1d Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBee and even in present case of biological clock, which has made huge turbulent in science, ignoring that clock also changed it design and along with the plenty of lives forms which have extincted from this planet, failing to adapt or rather in built clock may not warn them of the untoward incident they are suppose to confront with. i wonder, how people failed to fathom that even we possess atomic clock now, what about so many organisms, who are extincts. is failing of migration is synonymous to extinction?
Irene 🐝 Rodriesco
منذ 6 سنوات #6
great points 2,3 that would drink to be emphasized and valued by the society. Ali \ud83d\udc1d Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBee. As a mother I have reached a point where far from following norms and general guidelines, I listen to adults, talk about the behavior of my sons and daughters, I listen to my sons and daughters their opinion, and told the adult population, I make the feelings of my sons and daughters before the ideas of adults. That unfortunately makes you go against the current. Most adult population, not listening and not put in place, feel like the child population or less. In the case you describe I would love to know the ideas of when you were a boy, your concerns, that would have helped him in his adult life. Of course we must educate our sons and daughters in the value of the effort that comes with getting things. And learn that failures are part of life and we must learn from them.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #5
But we migrated away from this thinking cycle dear Debasish Majumder. Do you agree?
Debasish Majumder
منذ 6 سنوات #4
i guess, sir Ali \ud83d\udc1d Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBee, reflections of nature used to play major role in our faculty, whether we may throw fish or stone, surely intending to have different results, and from external world our sensation developed, followed by conception. then logic trigger, inducing them to garner raw knowledge, which by virtue of exercise and experiment evolved into more developed form of knowledge, a changing phenomena thus proceeds.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #3
Absolutely dear Debasish Majumder below. You know that before we throw a fish in a fish pond we first throw it in a tank of water. Once the fish adapts we take the risk of throwing it in the fish pond. Change is there, but being prepared to face it is another issue.
Ali Anani
منذ 6 سنوات #2
I was hoping that comments would broaden the scope of this buzz dear . Your comment is exactly what I hoped for. All three factors you highlight are significant in my opinion. You know we are like passengers on a plane and flying in turbulent weather. You know when the plane suddenly descends and how we feel. We tend to wait to experience this suddenly. Pilots don't feel the same as passengers do because they have been exposed gradually to these circumstances. It is our tendency to allow our kids to be exposed to sudden changes that they have never anticipated or experienced that put them off-balance. I concur entirely with your comment.
Debasish Majumder
منذ 6 سنوات #1