6 IMPORTANT LIFE LESSONS THAT YOU WERE NEVER TAUGHT AT SCHOOL

Stay in school, work hard, be the top student, go to University and get a good job. Do these things, and someday you will be successful.

It is really a big discouragement when you do all these things and still end up scrubbing soup containers at your local Mandazi kiosk or picking tea in your village farm for a minimum wage.

Thankfully, we are talented in different ways. Today, there are many entrepreneurs and business leaders who have proved that there is more to life than what the education system has always taught us.

(1) Failure is good

In school, we were taught to avoid failure and that is why some of us stooped to nearly unspeakable levels just to “pass exams”.

We sneaked our phones to the exam room so that we could google the correct answers. Some of us invested in mwakenya; while a few others decided to spend the whole night before the exam cramming (otherwise known as trans-nighting).

The “creative ones” hacked into the school system and tried to change their results.

We did all these things just because we feared FAILURE… and that is why to-date we still continue to play hide and seek with failure at our workplaces, with our health and with our families.

One thing you will learn in entrepreneurship however, is that FAILURE is good. Failure is not an exit strategy but rather a learning opportunity. In fact a popular quote goes that “If you have never failed in life, then you have never tried something new.”

So forget about being a "Google-Perfect" person and immerse yourselves into the murky waters of life so that you can fail and learn a lesson or two from that.