Why School Killed Your Creative Genius
Published 2025-09-20 09-11
Summary
Spent years researching fulfillment only to discover our education system is broken. It teaches conformity, not creativity. You have someone inside you that only you can find.
The story
I used to believe the formula was simple: good grades, corporate job, climb the ladder. Then I spent years researching what actually creates fulfillment and discovered something that shook me to my core.
The education system we trust is fundamentally broken. It’s designed to serve society’s needs, not yours. We’re churning out conformity instead of creativity, teaching you to fit into predetermined boxes rather than discover your unique potential.
Here’s what hit me hardest while writing the first chapters of my book: you have an individual inside you that nobody else can find. Not your parents. Not your teachers. Not your boss. Only you.
This process of becoming your real self instead of what everyone expects you to be isn’t feel-good philosophy. It’s the difference between living someone else’s definition of success and creating your own.
The brutal truth? You need to unlearn almost everything you’ve been taught about achievement. Use your uniqueness as the filter for what advice to keep or trash. That success blueprint everyone pushes? Question all of it.
We’ve become obsessed with paychecks and possessions while ignoring love, wisdom, and authentic connection. This imbalance is crushing our potential for genuine contribution to the world.
Real growth happens through self-education and intentional thought. Changed thinking leads to new habits, purposeful action, and dreams built on your individual vision – not society’s template.
The old advice to “get good grades, get a job with a company” isn’t just outdated. It’s actively harmful to your development. It trains you to be a cog in someone else’s machine.
Your path to greatness isn’t found in conformity. It’s discovered through the brave act of becoming who you truly are.
I dive deeper into this in Chapters 1-2 of “The Journey – I wish I knew this before I was 21.”
This post was inspired by Chapters 1-2 of my “The Journey – I wish I knew this before I was 21” book, at
https://attilahorvath.net/the-journey.
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Keywords: SelfActualization, education system broken, conformity versus creativity, inner self discovery
