Human beings exist to solve problems. I thought for sure that this phrase would pre-exist my thoughts as I began to write this article. So I searched and Google answered, “It looks like there aren’t many great matches for your search.” So I am claiming Copyright on this phrase, “Human beings exist to solve problems”, as my original work. © Copyright 2022. All Rights Reserved. Whether I can or not is likely moot, but I may as well claim it.

Between May 2019 and Nov 2020, Australia’s unemployment grew by 26% from 694,300 to 877,500. Now here’s the really scary statistic. In the same period, unemployed Australians with a degree grew by 57% from 129,600 to 204,400. (ABS Labour Force, Australia) These statistics are true for the USA, UK, Canada…

Stumbling through life without the right skills is like walking blindfolded and hoping for the best. Did you know the Uniform Code of Military Justice specifies court-martial for any officer who sends a soldier into battle without a weapon? There should be similar protection for students because our young people…

Viktor Frankl survived the Holocaust. From his perspective, there was one reason why: He was focused on maintaining a sense of purpose. As he wrote in his vital memoir Man’s Search for Meaning, those in the concentration camps who lost a sense of hope quickly decayed, while those who could…

In Australia, a new style of teaching young people designed specifically to equip students with the skills to not just cope, but the life-skills to prosper, are being taught with great results. — For many children around the world today, the education they receive is insufficient and incompatible with the ‘real world’. That’s not the fault of teachers and they too have endured a system that graduates teachers via a process that has little to do with the life-skills they need, rather, it’s…

When SEVENmile Venture Lab Founder and CEO, Greg Twemlow, set up a pilot program called Enterprise in the Local Community, for students at a local high school, he was stunned at the response the program received. “We were so proud of the students as they presented their concepts,” he recalls…

Take control of the 3 realities that shape your life — We know that life isn’t a dress rehearsal for a final act that magically delivers everything we thought we wanted. The 3 Realities that Shape Our Lives The first reality is that you could reflect on your situation relative to the womb that birthed you into this world. Something we all have zero control over. …

and Why it can only be 9 — A portmanteau of “list” and “article”, listicles are incredibly popular and have saturated Internet publishing since about 2009 but were widely used for at least 100 years prior to 2009. In fact, we are abused by listicles in mainstream journalism too. Ranked lists are a mainstay of digital content publishing…