Dan Martell - October 26, 2025


Schools are teaching the wrong things


Episode Stats


Length

39 seconds

Words per minute

222.33502

Word count

146

Sentence count

7


Summary

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School punishes the exact skills that make people successful. Asking too many questions, can you please put your hand down? Thinking differently, oh no, we can t do that, that's not how we do it, 1 + 1 = 2.

Transcript

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00:00:00.500 School punishes the exact skills that make people successful.
00:00:04.260 Asking too many questions, can you please put your hand down?
00:00:06.480 Thinking differently, oh no, we can't do that, that's not how we do it, 1 plus 1 equals 2.
00:00:10.880 The truth is, if you think about it, those things are what's rewarded in the world.
00:00:15.780 Being a different thinker, trying to find innovative ways to solve problems,
00:00:19.620 the school is actually teaching the opposite of what they need to be successful in the world.
00:00:23.580 If you go out in the real world, taking risks is how you make money.
00:00:26.400 asking a lot of questions is how you get curious and learn about other people and how to solve
00:00:30.240 problems and thinking different is how you innovate to actually be successful. Schools
00:00:35.220 punish the exact things that you need to be successful in the real world.