Adaptation 101
“What kind of skill do you need in life, but they don’t teach you in school?” my daughter asked.
They teach you how to multiply numbers, but not how to face loss.
How to pass exams, but not how to handle people.
How to chase goals, but not how to slow down and think when nothing makes sense.
Then she said, “Maybe the kids in my class know how to clean dishes. Maybe they can go buy milk. But do they know any real stuff? Like how to talk your way out of getting beaten up?”
That hit me. Schools teach control. Life runs on feedback
At first, I wanted to answer her like a social worker. Say something about awareness, resilience, all that grown-up TikTok talk.
But then I remembered Collateral.
Tom Cruise, cold eyes, calm voice talking to the taxi driver:
“You gotta make the best of it. Improvise. Adapt to the environment. Darwin. Shit happens. I Ching. Whatever, man. You gotta roll with it.”
That’s the cybernetic krav maga class no school teaches.
Adaptation 101.
No textbooks. No grades.
Just life throwing you tests you didn’t sign up for.