With the obvious changing of the times comes great opportunity! As I have written about recently the circumstances we witness in the world that demand ever and ever harsher sanctions upon the learned norms of behavior and the lives we used to inhabit brings also with it tremendous potential for finally making the grand shift towards a more meaningful existence.
For some, much of the old facade had increasingly become brittle and the much trodden path had seemed less and less appealing years before this recent turmoil hit us. Many have started to doubt the value and merit of formal education, especially since the advent of university-fees and the ever-increasing proliferation and normalization of tuitions for learning the ropes of any particular field.
But ever since the internet age has started to really pick up speed it has become clear to almost everyone that you can learn a lot of skills, acquire knowledge and experience on your own, by looking for people online who are masters of their craft who will show you how to become proficient at your chosen fields. Not only that, there have been countless unnamed tutors online who will also teach the willing student soft techniques applied to almost any life situation in a general sense - learning methodology, improving social skill or even showing ways to improve one's own ability to comprehend, to invent and to excel - allowing us to interrelate what we learned and apply this knowledge to other passions we have.
It's not like we have ever been alone in our undertakings - we might need mentors and idols in our crafts and studies more than ever - but there has been a tremendous shift from delegating our authority, life energy and trust towards institutions and fixed structures within the edifice of established mainstream society to becoming and ultimately welcoming a self-taught life as an autodidact, gathering and distilling as much insight as we can in new fields of study from those who share with us willingly and proficiently.
The student-teacher dynamic has become as dynamic as the drastically changing times we find ourselves in, and recent events on the word stage have undoubtedly shown us how much value there is to be extracted from a broad skillset that goes far beyond any single university course or classic apprenticeship in any one specialized field. The latter ways of learning have not become irrelevant or meaningless, it's just that the age that is upon us seems to require much more of an overview now - a multifaceted approach to skill acquisition and knowledge collection than our parents could neither have hoped for nor imagined.
And so learning the ropes - not only the theory but days, weeks or months of practical skills in many fields - seems like the best course of action for the current times and the days ahead. Especially if those skills and acquired competencies can be fused and eventually integrated towards the self-fulfilling creative work of those who have been longing for a dramatic change for decades but have never seen the utter practical necessity of putting those new fields of study into a meaningful context.
By teaching others we learn something ourselves, every time. By sharing our capabilities and offering our know-how we don't only improve ourselves and our readiness to deal with the even crazier times ahead, but we give any other human being out there on the search an immensely powerful leg up on their own path to capability-multiplication. It seems like the opportunity to help humanity help itself. So let's learn what we can, gather relevant bits of information from all sources we deem capable and let us never stop building our skill-sets.
Where specialization was once the key, the new gold standard is a wide skillset and the ability to fuse those skills into ever new and innovative competencies that enable a life of abundance and a conscious civilization that thrives in all the fruits that are to come from the work we accomplish today.
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