“And the cone is this is when you’re faced with scarcity, challenge, adversity. It’s not to fall into scarcity, it’s to up the gift. So when you think you don’t have any more to gift, there’s always that little extra and bring that out and something starts happening.”
E253 – TIMELESS // How Do We Unlearn Our Conditioning with Manish Jain
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About this interview:
A loving dismantling of factory schooling, a remembering of village intelligence, and a practical path into gift culture. Manish Jain, who walked out of Wall Street and Harvard, invites us to trade credentials for conscience, exams for experience, and scarcity for an experiment in trust.
Key Takeaways:
:: Unlearning requires embodied practice, not just new theories.
:: When scarcity knocks, up the gift, ritualize generosity so trust compounds.
:: Education is being, not just knowing, start with head, heart, hands, home.
Try this at Home:
:: Run a 2 hour “Treasure Hunt”, list and visit 10 local people or places of skill, elders, makers, growers, repairers, musicians.
:: Host a Darya Dil exchange, each person gifts a personally meaningful item with its story, receiver promises to pass it on within 3 months.
:: Replace “resume” with a one page portfolio of lived projects, publish it publicly.
Manish Jain is an un-educator, giftivist, inter-cosmosvision facilitator, filmmaker, urban organic farmer, slow food chef, compassionate clown, writer, organic intellectual, masti yogi and co-founder of the Unschooling movement. He is deeply committed to regenerating our diverse knowledge systems and cultural imaginations. He has served for the past 25 years as Coordinator and Co-Founder of Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development based in Udaipur, India and is co-founder of the Swaraj University, Creativity Adda, Learning Societies Unconference, Walkouts-Walkon network, and Udaipur as a Learning City in India. His new projects include Ecoversities, Jail University and Farmversities.
To connect with Manish Jain, visit www.shikshantar.org
To connect or work with Amisha, visit www.amisha.co.uk
Links from this episode:
- E39 – Manish Jain on Unschooling, Gift Culture and Deep Localisation // Freedom from the Shackles of Education
- Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development
- Ecoversities Network
- Swaraj University
- Auroville
- Hind Swaraj
- Jail University
- Farmversity
- Creative Adda
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- Join our membership, the Rhythm
- Reclaim Your Intuition. A Beautiful Learning Journey
- Book a One-to-One session with Amisha
- Amisha’s book INTUITION: Access your inner wisdom. Trust your instincts. Find your path.
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