Yale Study: Vast Majority of High Schoolers Unhappy at School

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Happy

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” ~ John Lennon “To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.” ~ Bill Watterson (Creator of Calvin and Hobbes) “The best way to make children good…

Harvard & Yale’s Most Popular Class Ever: Happiness

The No. 1 Contributor to Happiness

"According to a report by The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, all these mentioned life goodies were topped by the biggest life goodie of them all: “autonomy”— defined as “the feeling that your life—its activities and habits—are self-chosen and self-endorsed.” “Researcher Angus Campbell emphatically endorses the perks of autonomy. “Having a strong sense of controlling one’s life is a more dependable predictor of positive feelings of well-being than any of the objective condition…

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Hackschooling Makes Me Happy

"Much of education is oriented, for better or worse, towards making a living, rather than making a life."

Living & Learning

Is there a better way to learn about REAL LIFE than by living it? Life is too short to spend nearly a quarter of our lives being schooled how to live. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ~ Oscar Wilde “When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for ‘life’ or ‘growing up uninstitutionalized’.” ~ Grace Llewellyn “You only have one life to live. Make sure it’s yours.” ~ Eleanor Brown “It’s not how long you live, but how well y…

Real Life Skills

[TerryDearyRealLifeSkills] [DaveGrohl] “If you know what kind of work you want to do, move toward it in the most direct way possible." ~ John Holt [Teach Your Own] “School typically doesn’t prepare young people for real life – unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that’s why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.” ~ Ray Dalio [American Billionaire Investor] "Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you …