Everything begins in the education of the mind.
Improve the mind, and that person will improve other people’s minds. Good causes will arise, hope will exist and change will come.
Most minds are already powerful, but fear stops that power from unleashing. Remove fear and things will happen.
The thing about fearless people is that they are happy. And happy people care about things. Eventually, happy people make other people happy.
So, the solution, is to make more people fearless.
My dream is to build a university that does that. I don’t want to educate people, they can do that on their own (usually better than most institutions).
I want to encourage them. I want to build a place for those that have the ideals, the passion and the brains to make our society better.
A place where curiosity is sought and leadership desired.
A place where no thoughts are ridiculed and no goal is crazy enough to pursue.
A place where rebels, weirdos and remarkables would come looking for support for their impossible dreams.
My team of lunatics and I would pick them individually, without giving a crap about their CVs, their GPAs and majors. You wouldn’t leave the place with any technichal knowledge or any prestige.
You’d take home only three things:
Peace of mind, purpose and confidence. All that you need to change the world.
That’s my utopia.
I don’t care when and I don’t know how. All I know is that I want it to become real.
Working as the dean of that institute, recruiting those students and conversing with them about every topic necessary to push them to beat mediocrity, is the only thing that I’d be willing to work in until the day I die that would prevent me from retiring to a small house with a farm when I reach 80, where I would live alone with my dog, laptop and philosophy books.
Having a front row seat in the parade of misfits is definitely, my dream.
A dream that I’m convinced it can change the world.
The Changemaker
Carlos is a young Argentinian still living in Buenos Aires. Next year, he’s moving to Perth, Australia. He considers himself “a questioner of things,” and he blogs at OwlSparks.
You can also catch him on Twitter @CarlosMic!
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