OpenLearning

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Every one of you know about the Internet trolls, how parents go against the teachers of their children and how everyone blames the politicians, who blame other politicians. We have to defeat the blame culture and establish a culture of learning. There is only one rule in Leading 101: Praise in front of everyone and crticise privately. This is a very powerful rule and today we have the possiblity to build a life-long resumes of praise and criticism. This can be done with technological innovation that is fairly easy to implement today.

Your learning should be measured by your achievements, evaluated by the voice of praise and the silence of criticism. If your achievement does not get any attention, it might be that it was not a praise worth achievement at all. Today many of us tend to over-estimate our own achievements and underestimate the achievements of others.

Of course one could be worried about the privacy concerns of sharing life long resumes, but the current system is not that different today. Missing years in CV will always shine through; unimpressive work-experience is always a matter of perception of the employee. We have so many working people with very diverese backgrounds, that the recruiters do see many kind of life stories just by looking at the resumes.

The current system encourages lying and narcism, because it is built upon the false premise of no one ever making mistakes; and if they do, you can hide them and they will never bite you back. This is very naive view of the world. Because we all are human beings after all, we should build a new system upon transparency, trust and forgiveness. Communities can only be built upon those values, hegemonies are built with lies and narcism (propaganda and hierarchies).

Brief History of Human Communities
This all started 8000 years ago. In hunter-gatherer communities, upon trust conflicts people just started their own tribes and moved away. When cities started to form, people became more dependent on each others skills and roles. The option of moving out to the wild started to evaporate, because farming had changed the survival skills of independent individuals.

To be continued...