What if everything you learned about success was designed to make you average? Horvath’s book reveals how our education system creates conformity, not greatness.
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What if everything you learned about success was designed to make you average?
Attila B. Horvath’s “The Journey – I wish I knew this before I was 21” starts with a punch: our education system isn’t broken, it’s working exactly as intended – to create conformity, not greatness.
Chapters 1 and 2 lay out the problem clearly. Grades, prescribed career paths, even “creativity” in school – they’re all tools to keep you in line. The system needs efficient workers, not self-actualized individuals. It rewards compliance and punishes the very uniqueness that could make you extraordinary.
But here’s where it gets interesting.
Horvath doesn’t just complain about the problem. He gives you a way out: unlearn and relearn. That means questioning everything you’ve been taught about what success looks like, who you should become, and what path you should follow.
The process he describes – individuation – is about developing your authentic self beyond what society expects. Not ticking boxes. Not following inherited scripts. Instead, uncovering your actual strengths, weaknesses, and dreams, then living deliberately.
This isn’t abstract philosophy. Horvath makes it practical: self-educate, change your thinking, build new habits, take action, persist through setbacks. Mistakes aren’t failures – they’re feedback. Every wrong turn teaches you to trust your own judgment.
No parent, teacher, or boss can do this work for you. It requires personal responsibility and honest self-examination.
The alternative? Keep performing someone else’s idea of a successful life while your real potential stay
For more about Chapters 1-2 of Attila B. Horvath’s book, “The Journey – I wish I knew this before I was 21”, visit https://attilahorvath.net/the-journey.
