Masterclass hosted at Mayoor School Jaipur.To discuss Adlerian psychology and its application to education and self-reliance. Key Takeaways
TopicsThe Problem: External Validation & Dependence
The Solution: Self-Reliance & Teacher Happiness
Student Perspective & Social Media
Next Steps
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Saturday, April 11, 2026
Education and Self-Reliance
Founder of Good Schools Alliance, author, educator, and adventurer empowering children to discover the magic of literature.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Q&A WITH AUTHOR - How can I read better?
Q&A WITH AUTHOR
YJ: I love your book. It makes me feel like I'm successful by virtue of reading and I like this feeling. (laughs). It's totally my kind of book.
AR: Yes, absolutely. (laughs) Reading makes you see with clearer eyes and understand the world better. When you can do that, you become stronger - the feeling you associate with success. But at the same time, it gives you pain. Within the pages, there's much suffering, beyond what we've gone through in our finite experience of life. You'll read about suffering you didn't know existed. Having experienced their pain through words, it becomes a lot harder to focus on pursuing individual happiness and success. Reading makes you deviate further from the textbook definition of success because books don't make us go ahead of or above anyone else; they guide us to stand alongside others.
Y: I like that line - to stand alongside others.
AR: We become successful in other ways.
Y: How so?
AR: We become more compassionate. To read is to see things from someone else's perspective, and that naturally leads you to stop and look out for other people, rather than chase after success in the rat race. If more people read, I think the world would become a better place.
YJ: It's common to hear people say that they have no time to read but I believe you read a lot?
AR: Not really, about one book every two or three days.
YR: I call that reading a lot. (laughs)
AR: Really? (laughs) Being so busy, were usually left with only small pockets of time to read - perhaps in the morning, during lunch, in the evening after work and before we go to bed. But these pockets of time can add up to become something substantial.
XI: You mentioned that you usually read a few books at any one time.
AR: Yeah, I have a short attention span. I get bored and distracted easily, even if the book is interesting. So, when I start to feel restless, I'll switch to reading something else. I've been told that I'll mix up the plots, but so far, that has never happened.
X: I feel like I'll forget what I've read earlier by the the time I return to the previous book.
AR: Hmm... when I read, I don't obsess over the need to remember every detail. Of course, I'll need to remember the earlier bits to a certain extent, but that said, it's also unlikely that you have zero recollection of what happened. I usually recall most of it, but if my memory is a little hazy, I'll reread the bits I've underlined in pencil before I move on.
Y: Yes, I remember you mentioned in your book that there's no need to obsess over the details. But is it really okay? (laughs)
AR: (laughs) It's perfectly fine. Books are not meant to remain in your mind, but in your heart. Maybe they exist in your mind too, but as something more than memories. At a crossroads in life, a forgotten sentence or a story from years ago can come back to offer an invisible hand and guide you to a decision.
Personally, I feel like the books I've read led me to make the choices I've made in life. While I may not remember all the details, the stories continue to exert a quiet influence on me.
Y: That's very comforting to know. To be honest, I can't even recall much from the books I read just a month ago.
AR: Same for me, and I think most people will agree too.
Y: Some say were in an era where people no longer read. What do you think?
AR: While I was writing this book, I used Instagram for the first time. I was so pleasantly surprised by what I saw that I started to question who dreamt up the notion that people don't read these days? There are so many people on the app who are devouring books at an incredible pace, and it convinced me that readers aren't an extinct breed. That said, I know these Instagram readers are not representative of the average person and are probably a niche bunch. Some time back, I read this article claiming that half the adults in Korea don't even finish one book in a year. But when people don't read, you can't just call it a problem. It's not that straightfor-ward. Therere so many reasons: being busy, having no emotional bandwidth or time. It's because were living in such a suffocating society.
XT: Does that mean that until we create a more liveable society, it's going to be hard for people to read?
AR: Hmm... we can't just sit and wait for society to get better. If more people start to read, they'll be able to empathise with the pain of others and the world will become a better place sooner.
YJ: What can we do?
AR: It's not an issue I can solve. (laughs) But I believe that people still have an appetite for read-ing, and that they feel it's important to read. What about the people who want to read, but can't, for one reason or another?
YJ: ...
AR: As the age-old saying goes, the first step is always the hardest. (laughs) How do we start? Oh, is this the point where I should say I wrote the book with this group in mind? (laughs)
YJ: That's it? Not even a teaser? Come on, share something with us. How about the bit about using timers on days when you can't concentrate?
AR: Of course, I was just kidding. On days when you can't concentrate, ask yourself what's been on your mind recently. Humans are naturally motivated to be curious about things were interested in. For example, many of us want to quit our jobs. If you're thinking of quitting, read books written by people who've quit. There are many such books. If you want to emigrate, read stories about people who've moved across lands and oceans. If you're struggling with low self-esteem, have lost touch with a good friend or feel depressed, seek out books about that. But if you haven't read for a long while, it might be hard to concentrate, and you may get distracted easily. When I feel this way, I set a timer on my phone for twenty minutes. Until the timer rings, I'll focus on the book. Setting small restrictions like this adds a little tension that'll help us concentrate. Once the twenty minutes are up, we have the choice to stop reading, or if we want to go on a little longer, we can set a timer for another twenty minutes. If we do it three times, we have read for an hour already. Let's try to set the timer three times and complete an hour of reading every day.
Saturday, November 30, 2024
Reflections: Masterclass - Saturday 30th November 2024
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Thursday, March 17, 2022
On Education and Social Media
The meeting of education and social media has an immense value for teachers, especially as a resource for lesson ideas and connecting with like minds to share experiences. This has been especially true during the COVID-19 pandemic, as teachers have been able to share best practices about remote learning. However, like every part of the internet, it has its unproductive side.
When I dig too deep into Education Twitter, I mostly experience it the way I experience looking at a feed of people's perfect lives, children, pets, homes, and vacations. I'm left with the feeling there's no way I'd be able to live up to the standard I'm seeing. Or I just know in my gut there's more than meets the eye to what's being peddled in 140 characters or a carefully crafted image. These posts on teaching can also feel disorienting when I'm not clear if the motivation is to help teachers and students or to cultivate one's personal brand.
The emergence of "Edu-Twitter' can be as agitating as any other part of social media, and it never hurts to look from a distance or find balance in the way I am using it.
It is important for me to be clear-headed and constructive in my engagement with what's shared about teaching online. If I engage during times of stress, I am likely to see other teachers' posts through the lens of unhealthy comparison, envy, or criticism - three very unproductive emotions to carry back to my students.
Self-Care and Encouragement for Teachers
Peter Mishler
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Saturday, September 25, 2021
Audra Gold "I am passionate about Education...
Audra shares what learning means to her in today's Episode, her passion for education, and the importance of audio learning. As a child, she was an inquisitive person; she spent a lot of time in the library, the internet for learning in that era! She comes from a family of educators; what drove her to audio and the idea of Vurbl was born through her personal consumption of audiobooks, as this was her first passion, you listen and learn, perhaps the easiest way to enrich your brain. The successful womenprenuer shares three ingredients for a successful career recipe: passion, knowledge acquisition, and hard work ethics in life. Her favourite teacher story and how she learnt from watching her teachers - patience, discipline and enthusiasm - have helped her become a good mentor for people in life. She has spent a lot of time teaching, her teacher was her cross country coach, and he taught her the benefits of juicing, which helped him batter cancer. This was real-life learning about nutrition and holistic health. A maths teacher changed her diet perspective! Her favourite quote is, "Be suspicious of what you want; this keeps her motivated as it helps her delve deeper and find out what is the motive, what is driving you to do x,y and Z? Competitive sports shaped her approach to life, team building for business was indeed learnt from the soccer team.
https://vurbl.com/listen/audra-gold-co-founder-ceo-1U1R230l9Vm/
Listen to her answer our 10 questions about audio.
https://vurbl.com/station/learning-forward/
Saturday, February 6, 2021
Lissette Rojas "I am passionate about Education...
Learning Forward Podcast, Saturday 6th Feb 2021.
Founder of Trix and Trax: The Super Hero Talent Program “Peer to Peer learning” Making Learning a great experience Discover and Develop Talent Trough Live Events - Content Creation - Social Media. Social Entrepreneur. Passionate Life Skills Developer through Talent Nurturing. HundrED.org Country Lead, Global Innovator Ambassador & Youth Academy
Episode #63: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Lissette Rojas from Venezuela, a Country Lead and Ambassador of Hundred. She is skilled at discovering and mentoring top multicultural talent; instilling a success; and creating leaders, not followers. Lissette is the co-founder and CEO of Trix and Trax, an educational program that encourages students to discover and develop their talents. A lawyer by training, with a MIB degree from the University of Wollongong in Australia, she has won multiple awards as TV creator, entrepreneur, and educator. Today, she spends her time implementing Trix and Trax's, “Superhero Talent Program: Peer Learning and Role Playing”, in Venezuela and elsewhere. She's a passionate believer in talent nurturing through fun and creative experiences that ultimately lead to building self-confidence, and long-lasting relationships with students who are encouraged to dream big. Activities such as Trix and Trax are essential to encourage the development of talent in arts, music, and sports and teach values that are important to our educational institution such as creativity, leadership, teamwork, and self-confidence.Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/learningforward/support
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Friday, January 8, 2021
Technology : A Boon - Jitendra Suthar
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For example, the device you’re victimisation right away may be a style of technology created for communication or the white goods in your room may be a use of science that helps to stay your food contemporary and funky.
It isn’t straightforward to imagine our lives while not victimisation any style of technology. For the littlest of communications, we tend to show to our mobile phones. Even most of the food we tend to eat is pre-packaged in factories with the help of varied technologies. Thus, imagining a life without technology is not possible. It’s not solely a truth of life however additionally a necessity for all the people.
In fact, the smartphone, that is, a transportable which might connect with the web is changing into one amongst the fastest-growing and most accessible sorts of technology around the world. On a smartphone, you’ll be able to click pictures, browse the web, hear music, and use social media. With the appearance of smartphone technology, the sensible purpose of not solely communication along with your friends is met, however additionally such a large amount of others, as mentioned. Scientists have done such a lot to advance humans victimisation technology, and that we still have an extended thanks to go.
Jitendra Suthar
The Fabindia School
jsr@fabindiaschools.in
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Soft Influencing - Nikita Rajpurohit
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Contributions towards the Country - Monika Vaishnav
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Lockdown: Time to rediscover ourselves - Ajay Vijayvargi
discover our talent and potential. Being at home for so many days in touch with our friends, family members, colleagues and students (those who are in education stream) and searching out old friends from our school and college life on social media platforms - Facebook, Instagram etc.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
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