Comments for The University of Life https://uoflife.com Be Your Best Self, Live Your Best Life! Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:48:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Comment on How to Change the World (online course) by ShaunR https://uoflife.com/change-the-world/#comment-147 Wed, 30 Nov 2022 19:59:20 +0000 https://uoflife.com/?p=7332#comment-147 In reply to Marvin Ijeh.

For now, I have more videos lined up to create for you which I’ll post to YouTube.com/UofLIFE, and I’m writing the book, which is coming along very nicely. After that, I’ll make the official online course and post a link here. Maybe I can finish all that by summer. Thanks for asking!

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Comment on How to Change the World (online course) by Marvin Ijeh https://uoflife.com/change-the-world/#comment-146 Wed, 30 Nov 2022 12:58:56 +0000 https://uoflife.com/?p=7332#comment-146 I would like to take this course, what does it reqyure

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Comment on Everything Republicans/Democrats know about Government by ShaunR https://uoflife.com/books/politics/#comment-115 Fri, 28 Oct 2022 06:09:42 +0000 http://uoflife.com/?page_id=284#comment-115 Well said!!! 🙂

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Comment on Change Your Story Today by Andrew https://uoflife.com/change-your-story-today/#comment-34 Tue, 02 Aug 2022 11:17:06 +0000 http://uoflife.com/?p=1159#comment-34 I joined the University of Life the day I realised that failing my physics degree course twice in two different universities, and after four resits in the first university,, was not the end of the world!

I still suffer mental anguish when trying to read and learn Physics even for my own personal development. I realise I had built a wall around my mental stress and isolated what seemed to me to be an inferno in the mind that had affected me physically with great stress. Every time I try to approach the boundary of this inferno in my mind which is still burning thirty years on, it sets off the stress and I feel the same physical symptoms approaching that I had at university , though I can manage it by retreating and starting to learn a different way…
At Uni in the 80’s there was not the internet and the vast online resources it brings to you, even to your device in your pocket., videos , online lectures etc..
There was your lecturer and very dry textbooks which you bought a couple of and accessed some more in the library..

A lecturer dictated such a book to me over late 1988 to early 1989.
He read the sentences in the most dull voice I have ever heard , then wrote the sentences on the board, pausing for the class to write the sentences into their notes before continuing in that boring voice the next sentence.
for diagrams he’d put a worn overhead transparency on the OHT.projector.

At Christmas, I found the book he was dictating to us word by word.

It demoralised me but I then thought, why is he dictating from a pile of old A4 notes? It dawned on me that those were the lecture notes he had copied from his lecturer who subsequently published them !
That was it, there was nothing else to remember except that rows of students sat copying solutions from each other to pass the tutorials and progress, thus how many physics teachers are terrible at teaching the subject….. I was gone, exam stress took hold, I was drowning in a sea of copied information….someone at the student advisory center called me “stupid”, I had no reply, eyes down a failure- in truth I was trying not to pass out with the stress as my neck was so tense…
I took up running, that eased the stress… I was running away from something but at least I felt I wasn’t dying, I could do “the circuit” and the “final hill” five times after all!
Since that time , I have obviously struggled to get jobs that pay enough to be able to live in places I really want to live in, but things have worked out. I joined a band, I started to self educate.. I am in establishments but not in the jobs there where I possibly would have ended up and been under stress, I have huge amounts of my own time to develop myself my way.
I increased my ability on musical performance way more than I would have been able to do in one of those stressful jobs. I have been lucky, my rent is low and leaves a detailed amount to be able to get involved in the various courses offered by the University of Life.
You don;t need to follow the boring lecturers in the Uni of Life, you can discard them and follow inspirational people instead..

I am no Einstein, but his philosophy of education was spot on. He was actually good at mathematics and pretty good on the violin too. He didn’t care for being told what to do in his life

Our next door neighbour, back in the 80s told of her sister who had been at a party in the 30s where Einstein had been present and at some point in the evening had picked up his fiddle and started to play.
She was sitting next to Einstein’s wife who remarked
“Ah my Albert.!.. If only he could practise more, he could be good!”

Well, Albert can be forgiven for maybe not having as much time to practise while having a bad decade in the 30’s with tragic family events and the rise of the Nazis, but any time playing music is beneficial in the University of Life.

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Comment on How to Use Your Brain: Complexity by Kwesi Frimpong https://uoflife.com/how-to-use-your-brain-complexity/#comment-41 Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:47:59 +0000 http://uoflife.com/?p=5201#comment-41 Love this

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Comment on Love by Solomon Tertsegha Tyokaa https://uoflife.com/love/#comment-19 Sat, 22 Aug 2020 03:27:34 +0000 http://uoflife.com/?page_id=1716#comment-19 It really wonderful learning from you. Don’t know if you can translate this into a certificate awarding course.

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Comment on IdentityOLD by Deepak Jadhav https://uoflife.com/identityold/#comment-22 Wed, 18 Jul 2018 04:54:30 +0000 http://uoflife.com/?page_id=1912#comment-22 Interesting and inspiring

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Comment on Shorten Life’s Learning Curve with the University of Life by Tara Erskine https://uoflife.com/about-the-university-of-life/#comment-39 Sun, 18 Dec 2016 21:11:03 +0000 http://uoflife.com/?p=2261#comment-39 I’m very interested in U of life! It seems to explore and explain all aspects of general life!

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Comment on The One Essential by Brian R.Kendall https://uoflife.com/the-one-essential/#comment-36 Tue, 08 Mar 2016 07:06:45 +0000 http://uoflife.com/?p=1671#comment-36 You are A Beautiful Soul .. I would LOVE and Appreciate the opportunity of Meeting You in Person and Shake your hand ,,, Hmmm, Forget The Handshake .. Brother , You are Going to get a HUG !! ..
This Wonderful World of Ours .. NEEDS Positive Affirmations ,
Thank You ..and God bless

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Comment on On Giving by Love With Your Whole Heart https://uoflife.com/life-quotes/books-worth-reading/the-prophet/on-giving/#comment-17 Sun, 13 Sep 2015 19:31:55 +0000 http://uoflife.com/?page_id=669#comment-17 […] “There are those who give little of the much which they have–and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome. And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty. There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism. And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space. Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes He smiles upon the earth.” – Kahlil Gibran […]

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