The Learning Project: Rites of Passage (Becoming Supergenius: Creativity and Transformation) - Softcover

Stoller, Lincoln

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1775288005 ISBN 13: 9781775288008

Publisher: Mind Strength Balance, 2019

Synopsis

Ever since your schooling began you have been frustrated by its failure to inspire or demonstrate its importance. It did not tell you what was most important, and what it told you certainly was not. You heard about genocide, the assassination of JFK, the World Wars and others since. You have asked about these and other things, and you’ve been told what but not why. Every year you expected truth to be revealed... but it never was. The question of why is never answered. Your classmates progressed from intimidated elementary school students—assaulted by teachers, tests, and the pledge of allegiance—to compliant high school students accepting insipid explanations, eroded self-confidence, and hostile competition. By the time you reached middle school, you were angry, numb, and indifferent. At this point, you started to search for wiser counsel and a deeper understanding of education, the world, and yourself.For six decades I have been asking interesting people to answer the question of meaning, growth, and change. I have returned to my wisest mentors, classmates, partners, and their teachers, students, and children looking for answers to the question of what lies at the root of inspiration and opportunity. What improves our lives? In The Learning Project, thirty-five artists, athletes, tradesmen, soldiers, scientists, and politicians—teenagers, adults, and elders—describe their passages of inner change. One struggled with adolescence in a broken, immigrant family. Another trained to be an astronaut. A third learned craftsmanship from a grandfather who lived during the Civil War. These rites of passage echo a mythology that goes back thousands of years. In them are the secrets to growing your humanity. This is not the sanitized version, reduced to self-help aphorisms or buzzwords for business schools. These are not pigeonholed people or bedtime stories. They are fully textured, authentic rites of passage, unfiltered and unfolded by layers. Lives like yours: confusing, complex, uncertain, and in the process of finding root. This is the story of your own transcendence and the transformation of us all.

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From the Author

Learning
Learning is not something you do, it's something you are. When learning completes you, you don't need a teacher. It happens by itself.

Schooling
Good school builds character; great school builds soul. Here you'll learn the critical choices, crucial changes, and great transformations that you can still extract from your own experience.

Mentoring
Mentors change lives by hearing what others don't and doing nothing where others interfere. Explore the deepest mentoring: this is how people change. This is how you change.

Parenting
To help your children you must understand. You must remember. Let this book remind you of the child you are and must remain if you're to grow.

Personal SuccessThere is just one thing your success depends on. In any field: one thing. This is the revelation in The Learning Project.

Business
Business is relationships built on character that delivers value. You will succeed when you understand this. This is a journey to the foundation of character.

Spirituality
Love is the root of all spiritual progress because without it you cannot grow. And not just spiritual but progress in anything.

Human ConditionThe promise of humanity lies in our becoming fully human. Join thirty-five deeply open, revealing people in their personal transformations.

From the Back Cover

Praise for The Learning Project
"In a society deeply committed to time-wasting, Lincoln Stoller has given us something of a miracle in his Learning Project, a window out of our own claustrophobic darkness into the consciousness of others, a momentary intimacy with the essences which animate flesh. What learning project could match this one?"
-- John Taylor Gatto, twice New York StateTeacher of the Year,  Alexis de Tocqueville Excellence in Advancement of Educational Freedom award, author of Dumbing Us Down, and TheUnderground History of American Education

"The Learning Project provides a Rosetta Stone for living a self-made, satisfied life; an intuitive understanding worth more than its weight in gold. With brilliant glimpses into fascinating lives, Stoller shows life's answers lie in people. I highly recommend this book to anyone in the process of pursuing their dreams - that should mean everyone."
-- Alexander Khost, founder and facilitator, Voice of the Children NYC

"This is a wonderful collection of choices, risks, doubts, struggles, failures, and triumphs from widely differing backgrounds, personalities, chosen paths, and ages - from 15 to 93 - of remarkable, adventurous lives. Lincoln Stoller has a great knack for inviting the revelation of basic life truths, and the learning that has occurred along the way. I recommend this book to anyone, but especially to people thinking about how they themselves might leave a well-worn path for something new and heartfelt."
-- Peter Gray, PhD, Department of Psychology, BostonCollege, and President of Alliance for Self-Directed Education. Author of Psychology, and Free to Learn
"The Learning Project is an powerhouse of intellectual and humanistic insights from special individuals of all ages and backgrounds... An intimate look at what it means to be human, masterfully captured by a brilliant curator. An amazing book, well worth reading more than once." -- Kate Jones, Founder and President of Kadon Enterprises, Inc.
"Anyone interested in the actual mechanics of lifelong changes, success, and growth will realize that The Learning Project offers an unprecedented, invaluable key to achievement that no growth-oriented learner should bypass."
-- D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Mind Strength Balance
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1775288005
• ISBN 13: 9781775288008
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 418