Education Archives - Nick Stagg Therapy

I was talking with my son, who challenged me to think of the most important area to tackle in order to progress the World’s issues.

After spending some time explaining there won’t be just one thing to tackle first, we need to tackle everything in tandem, I came to rest on Education as a useful first step.

The more we educate ourselves (as this is in our control), the more we can understand the World.

The more we understand the World, the better placed we are to help remedy the issues we face.

Clearly there’s a lot of information out there, so we’ll all have our natural biases into what we research & learn more about.

However, the more we as a collective learn about anything, the better the chance of making change for the better.

This applies as much to our everyday lives as to Global issues. For if we get better at understanding our own knowledge gaps & start to learn more about issues that affect us directly, the more we all collectively make positive change.

Lots of little positive, personal changes quickly sum to make a big difference when we all do it.

If we learn more in order to collaborate better with our family, friends & acquaintances, then our lives start to feel better.

When do we stop learning?

When we leave school, college or Uni?

Maybe that seems the end of our “formal” education. However, we’re learning all the time.

The more you can become aware of that and work to increase the amount you learn, the better life can become.

We can learn better self-care, how to collaborate better, new factual information, new practical skills, the list is almost endless.

Clearly you can re-engage with formal education, but that’s not the only way to learn more.

Use the vast resources that are available to all of us. Whether you like to read, watch or listen there’s a wealth of ways to engage with learning.

If you find areas that interest you, you’ll be drawn to find out more. Get inspired by the feeling of “growing”. Expand your mind & the collection of things you know and can do.

Education is empowering. It’ll increase your sense of wellbeing, as you feel more competent to be in the world.

In the beginning you might surprise yourself be how good learning new things feels. As you do more, you’ll really embed the sense of expanding your abilities.

The more we can tackle ourselves, the more the world feels in our control. That will always feel good.