Are current universities relevant? I'm not sure if it's catering to the needs of the new world we are living in. In this podcast, I share my vision for the new age universities. Learn more about Diamond Certification - https://sidz.co/diamond
00:00:00
Speaker 1: The world is changing super fast. But the education system
00:00:03
Speaker 1: and the lag time in the education system is so
00:00:05
Speaker 1: slow that it's going to take a lot of time
00:00:07
Speaker 1: to actually cater to the needs of the world that
00:00:09
Speaker 1: we're living in.
00:00:10
Speaker 1: And that's why this podcast is an important one. And
00:00:12
Speaker 1: how do we create universities of the future? How do
00:00:15
Speaker 1: we make sure that every person in this world, whether
00:00:18
Speaker 1: they are a child, they are an adolescent or they
00:00:21
Speaker 1: are an adult are in this journey of continuous lifelong
00:00:24
Speaker 1: learning and continuous reinvention so that they can be relevant
00:00:27
Speaker 1: and they can be contributors of the society. And for
00:00:29
Speaker 1: that to actually happen, we have to start thinking out
00:00:32
Speaker 1: of the box, we cannot think in conventional
00:00:35
Speaker 1: mindset of the conventional streams of education. Because if you
00:00:39
Speaker 1: look at the current education system as what we see
00:00:41
Speaker 1: in the world today, it was designed in the 19
00:00:44
Speaker 1: hundreds or even before that to create an industrial workforce
00:00:49
Speaker 1: for the industries by the British us, it did its
00:00:51
Speaker 1: job because it had to create more people who are
00:00:54
Speaker 1: employable
00:00:55
Speaker 1: and not necessarily having the entrepreneurial mindset. But today in
00:00:59
Speaker 1: a fast paced digital world, we are seeing that the
00:01:01
Speaker 1: young generation, the Gen Z, the Gen Alpha, they are
00:01:04
Speaker 1: all thinking on a totally different mindset. They want to
00:01:06
Speaker 1: be more independent, they want to be more in control
00:01:09
Speaker 1: and they are not looking for just a safety and
00:01:11
Speaker 1: security in a job that the previous generation was looking
00:01:13
Speaker 1: forward to. And they're looking for meaning in the work
00:01:16
Speaker 1: that they actually do so for that to happen. We
00:01:19
Speaker 1: got to start thinking in terms of
00:01:21
Speaker 1: what should these new universities be like? It cannot be
00:01:24
Speaker 1: the typical, you know, the Stanford, Harvard Oxford kind of university,
00:01:28
Speaker 1: even though those have a role to play. And if
00:01:31
Speaker 1: you actually look at the big Ivy Leagues and even
00:01:33
Speaker 1: the I and the Iams, the one of the important
00:01:37
Speaker 1: reasons why people go to those institutions, at least if
00:01:39
Speaker 1: you go back in time, say 2025 years when
00:01:42
Speaker 1: it really had an impact on the students, it was
00:01:44
Speaker 1: mainly for the brand value that you would get associated
00:01:48
Speaker 1: with and the network that you would get. And of course,
00:01:50
Speaker 1: the knowledge is was an exclusive thing 20 to 25
00:01:54
Speaker 1: years ago. But today it's not about knowledge. Also, you
00:01:56
Speaker 1: can find exclusive knowledge, amazing knowledge, unique knowledge anywhere on
00:02:00
Speaker 1: the internet from, from multiple places. So
00:02:03
Speaker 1: if you look at the time that we are living
00:02:05
Speaker 1: in right now, why would a kid want to go
00:02:09
Speaker 1: and study in an Ivy League or an I or
00:02:10
Speaker 1: IM is only for the brand name, brand association and
00:02:14
Speaker 1: the network. But having said that we are now living
00:02:17
Speaker 1: in a time where even the top companies and the top,
00:02:20
Speaker 1: you know, organizations in the world, they are not hiring
00:02:24
Speaker 1: people based on which university they come from. Of course,
00:02:26
Speaker 1: there are campus selection, all of those things happen.
00:02:29
Speaker 1: But what people have shifted to right now at a
00:02:32
Speaker 1: corporation level is they are hiring people based on skills
00:02:35
Speaker 1: aptitude and their characteristics
00:02:38
Speaker 1: and character traits. So keeping that in mind,
00:02:41
Speaker 1: we have to understand that the world is changing fast.
00:02:45
Speaker 1: The old way of doing things may not be relevant anymore.
00:02:48
Speaker 1: The people who are sitting at the top of the,
00:02:52
Speaker 1: you know, the ladder of the education of the academia
00:02:54
Speaker 1: world are having gray hair and they are not able
00:02:57
Speaker 1: to think as fast and progressive as the young generation
00:03:01
Speaker 1: and they are also too slow to make decisions because
00:03:04
Speaker 1: of their conservative nature. And for that to happen, what
00:03:07
Speaker 1: we need to do is start creating more digital universities
00:03:11
Speaker 1: and we are not talking about typical university but a
00:03:14
Speaker 1: university like experience for students to go through and learn
00:03:17
Speaker 1: from mentors who are implemented and not just professors of
00:03:21
Speaker 1: the knowledge. For example, if you want to learn about entrepreneurship,
00:03:24
Speaker 1: learn from an entrepreneur who's actually built a business and
00:03:27
Speaker 1: who's running a community around teaching people, entrepreneurship and building
00:03:32
Speaker 1: the skills over that. If you want to get good
00:03:34
Speaker 1: in wealth, you want to build a wealth portfolio and
00:03:36
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Learn from somebody who is an investor
00:03:39
Speaker 1: and who is building a community around investing.
00:03:41
Speaker 1: If you want to get better and healthy in which
00:03:43
Speaker 1: area of your life, learn from a person who has
00:03:46
Speaker 1: been healthy all his life or all her life and
00:03:49
Speaker 1: they're building a community around that. So once you join
00:03:52
Speaker 1: an ecosystem where the mentor is an implementer themselves, and
00:03:55
Speaker 1: they are the practitioner of the knowledge and they are
00:03:58
Speaker 1: going to be providing their own unique certification based on
00:04:02
Speaker 1: activities, assignments and achievements that is going to be more
00:04:06
Speaker 1: valuable than a piece of paper that you get as
00:04:09
Speaker 1: a degree saying that you are qualified in this or
00:04:12
Speaker 1: qualified in that because the formal education system was designed
00:04:16
Speaker 1: in such a way where the only way you can
00:04:18
Speaker 1: evaluate a student is based on memorization and how much
00:04:22
Speaker 1: they score in a particular exam.
00:04:24
Speaker 1: But if you look in today's day and age, it
00:04:26
Speaker 1: is not about memorization anymore. It is all about how
00:04:29
Speaker 1: can you navigate to the noise and solve people's problems efficiently.
00:04:35
Speaker 1: I'm a product of
00:04:37
Speaker 1: not the formal education system, but I went through a
00:04:39
Speaker 1: journey where without having a degree, I've been able to
00:04:43
Speaker 1: create solutions for people by learning from mentors or implementer
00:04:46
Speaker 1: and of course, creating my own unique different models. So
00:04:49
Speaker 1: how do we create universities in the future? Step? Number
00:04:52
Speaker 1: one is you have to define what problem that you
00:04:54
Speaker 1: want to solve.
00:04:56
Speaker 1: Whether it's a business problem, a career problem, a health problem,
00:04:59
Speaker 1: a relationship problem, a money problem, or it could also
00:05:02
Speaker 1: be a creativity problem. The second step is once you
00:05:05
Speaker 1: have defined what the problem is, you got to then
00:05:08
Speaker 1: design an entire journey, a learning path and implementation path
00:05:12
Speaker 1: to solve that specific problem.
00:05:14
Speaker 1: Now, if it's a health problem, you need to go specific,
00:05:16
Speaker 1: you need to go micro niche because health is too wide,
00:05:19
Speaker 1: you pick any one health problem, maybe it's diabetes or
00:05:21
Speaker 1: weight loss or obesity or stress. So if you take
00:05:24
Speaker 1: obesity as a problem, there are many methods to lose weight.
00:05:27
Speaker 1: So is it running? Is it Zumba, is it cycling?
00:05:30
Speaker 1: It is is it nutrition? So if you're going to
00:05:32
Speaker 1: take nutrition, now, the
00:05:33
Speaker 1: there is a specific way on how you can use
00:05:35
Speaker 1: nutrition to solve a particular health problem of a person.
00:05:37
Speaker 1: So they can get back into shape. Now, if you
00:05:39
Speaker 1: are going to be positioning yourself as a health expert
00:05:42
Speaker 1: or a nutrition expert, helping people lose weight through calorie
00:05:45
Speaker 1: controlled meals and you have a system around that, then
00:05:48
Speaker 1: you have to design a learning path and implementation part. OK.
00:05:52
Speaker 1: Learning path and implementation path, a learning path can be
00:05:55
Speaker 1: what all they should know about food, what all they
00:05:57
Speaker 1: should know about nutrition. What all they need to know
00:05:59
Speaker 1: about the human body that can all be courses and
00:06:01
Speaker 1: an implementation path is what are they doing to take
00:06:05
Speaker 1: action to improve their lifestyle habits, to improve their food
00:06:08
Speaker 1: habits and so on? And what are they doing to
00:06:10
Speaker 1: track all of that? And all of this should be
00:06:12
Speaker 1: on a particular system?
00:06:13
Speaker 1: So imagine if you're able to design a membership into
00:06:16
Speaker 1: a community where you're going to be teaching people, help
00:06:19
Speaker 1: helping them overcome obesity. But you also have a certification
00:06:23
Speaker 1: level where it's going to be a one year to
00:06:25
Speaker 1: three year journey where they are committing themselves to completely
00:06:28
Speaker 1: transforming their lifestyle and food habits and all of their
00:06:32
Speaker 1: patterns by being guided by a mentor
00:06:36
Speaker 1: who is telling them exactly what they have to do
00:06:38
Speaker 1: on a weekly basis. And it's a community based effort.
00:06:42
Speaker 1: It's not like a doctor and a patient relationship, but
00:06:44
Speaker 1: it's more like a community relationship where everyone is learning
00:06:46
Speaker 1: from each other.
00:06:47
Speaker 1: And as they attend the sessions, they get points as
00:06:50
Speaker 1: they achieve the different milestones, they get points and as
00:06:54
Speaker 1: they get back into shape, they get rewarded and recognized
00:06:57
Speaker 1: for hitting their goals. Now, this is progressive learning. This
00:07:02
Speaker 1: is what the universities, the future are going to be.
00:07:04
Speaker 1: I've just given you an example of health but can
00:07:06
Speaker 1: apply to any topic in life, whether it's a career growth,
00:07:09
Speaker 1: communication skills, if it's teaching people, how to invest in
00:07:12
Speaker 1: stock markets, how to become more wealthy? How do you
00:07:15
Speaker 1: invest in real estate?
00:07:17
Speaker 1: How do you uh you know, play guitar? How do
00:07:20
Speaker 1: you become good at playing flute or piano or any instrument?
00:07:24
Speaker 1: Every single thing can be constructed in a Gamification system
00:07:28
Speaker 1: like this where the first level of Gamification is a
00:07:30
Speaker 1: result is an activity based, result like an activity based award.
00:07:34
Speaker 1: The second stage is a result based award and the
00:07:37
Speaker 1: third stage is, is like a superstar award that you
00:07:40
Speaker 1: give somebody. So
00:07:42
Speaker 1: those of you who are listening to this podcast and
00:07:44
Speaker 1: you're not in my community, I would highly recommend that
00:07:47
Speaker 1: you join my community by going to SI zs.co slash
00:07:50
Speaker 1: join and join the internet lifestyle hub where I will
00:07:53
Speaker 1: actually teach you the nuts and bolts on how to
00:07:55
Speaker 1: create your own digital certification, how to create your own
00:07:58
Speaker 1: university where you are the mentor and you're getting people
00:08:01
Speaker 1: to implement and so on. Now, if you're already in
00:08:04
Speaker 1: lifestyle hub, I would highly recommend that you upgrade to
00:08:06
Speaker 1: my diamond level to actually see this in action. If
00:08:09
Speaker 1: you go to S ID zs.co slash diamond,
00:08:12
Speaker 1: you can attend my next diamond showcase. But I'll be
00:08:14
Speaker 1: giving an orientation on exactly how I have designed a
00:08:17
Speaker 1: platform called Pole star where I'm tracking people's habits. I'm
00:08:21
Speaker 1: tracking people's activities, I'm tracking people's points which all add
00:08:24
Speaker 1: up to certification, which goes to a one year to
00:08:26
Speaker 1: three year certification, which is equal, equal to a university
00:08:30
Speaker 1: like experience. And
00:08:31
Speaker 1: the results are phenomenal. I've been able to document over
00:08:34
Speaker 1: 100 people in my community who have crossed one core
00:08:37
Speaker 1: in revenue following this particular model and the same principles
00:08:39
Speaker 1: are being applied in all of my other students. So
00:08:42
Speaker 1: if you found this podcast useful, please subscribe to this
00:08:44
Speaker 1: on Apple and Spotify and get on this journey of
00:08:48
Speaker 1: creating your own university. Catch you in the next episode.