Right study, self-realization accompanied by positivity.

The right study, self-realization accompanied by positivity.

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In the past, educational capital was exchanged for future economic capital. It served as a basis for social capital, the so-called human network, and also played a major role in determining cultural capital such as books, movies, and music.

Studying was the fastest and most accurate way to rise in status, and educational capital meant power.

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It has become an implicit promise of a society that educational capital will be exchanged for future economic, social, and cultural capital, and the 'predictability' of believing that this promise will be fulfilled has arisen. This predictability is a decisive and important factor for a society to function as a society. Because people can know the consequences of their actions, they perceive the consequences as their own responsibility, and society ascribes responsibility to the individual and is freed from responsibility.

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Just two or three decades ago, this predictability was pretty good. Schools, grades, and diplomas could predict an individual's future to some extent. It was predictable to the extent that the problem was that the predictions were fixed, not to the extent that they were correct.

People do calculations when they can predict the future like this. I calculate what effort and resources it takes to get the result I want, whether it is given to me now or not. The calculation, that is, rationality, which is the greatest characteristic of modern humans, can be said to be the child of predictability.

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However, it is necessary to take a closer look at the true face of modern calculation, which is wrapped in the name of growth and efforts for a better life.

Modern calculations for predictability and studying for higher status are actually based on negativity. In other words, modern rationality is not to seek certainty by adding desired experiences but to approach certainty by subtracting failure cases.

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Except for some students who discovered what they want to do early on or who are good at what they want to do, most students do not find what they want to do and become good at it by working hard, but rather discover what they want to do among the things they are good at and work harder. So you'll be fine with it. I rarely want to do something I'm not good at. This is especially the case when it is difficult to do well, and when you do not do well, you are withdrawn from the beginning.

This is the reason why students who can't study say that they are not good at anything. In Korea, most schools determine and evaluate what they are good at and what they are not good at. However, things that are not evaluated by the school, that is, studies that are not schooled, are not evaluated as good or bad at all.

Conversely, students who are good at studies are more likely to be good at most subjects than if they are good at just one subject. So, among the things I'm good at, I think of things I want to learn more or deal with as 'things I want to do'. It's about discovering what you want to do among the things you're good at, and the things you're not good at are not taken into account in the first place.

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Why do I want to study?

What do I really want?

Predictability, am I free from modern calculations?

It must be admitted that inertia and habitual choices are based on a lot of negativity.

Even though I left school a long time ago as an adult, I still feel that I have not passed the schooled standards.

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Was the turning point and the things you believed were a 'dream' were the way to true self-realization?

I am asked again whether I am living today doing what I really want to do, or whether I have found my dream among the things I am good at.

For true self-realization, 'positivity' must be accompanied by looking at and finding oneself beyond the evaluation of schools, which are still the basis of education and society.

I hope that today will be a day that moves toward the realization of the true meaning through the times of 'experience' rather than simply 'doing' by asking and asking again and again.