i was half myself without you, now i feel so complete

My experience with The Knowledge Society (TKS)

This one time, a TKS director is on a late-night Zoom call with 12 of us. He monologues about how TKS is completely non-judgmental—his goal is simply to help us better understand ourselves and achieve what we value. Then, he talks about one student he had, whose goal was to get better at piano. “He plays the piano for an hour or two every day after school—think about how much time that is. His mom wants him to, so he could get this piano certificate and always have the backup option to be a piano teacher. Now, isn’t that so silly! Working on his backup option when he could be doing so much…

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• Katherine Huang
• Pranav
• Aryan Naik
• Janet Guo
• Jacob G-W

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