"Turn your vision into a mountain, then swing Thor’s hammer and make it a molehill."
Teach students how to break down challenges and build resilience.

As an educator, I know some students are bullshitters. Not because they lack ability. No, it is quite the opposite. These 14 carat-gold computer wizards construct million-dollar industries with a stick of gum and TikTok. Yet, in the class, I see pupils locked in a catatonic state. Imagine a classroom full of King Davids packing automatic weapons, too scared to face their Goliaths.
Analysis paralysis is real.
But your friendly neighborhood, Anansi, has the cure.
I encourage my students to turn their vision boards into a mountain. Then, I pick up my sledgehammer and swing that bitch like Thor. Kaboom! And I stare into their eyes as I reduce their mountains into molehills.
Why, you may ask. Because it is fun seeing students’ faces as their little passions pummeled into pain. Just joking. These are just jokes. (Semi).
Like Kendrick Lamar, I want to see stretch marks—symbols of labor. Our children have all the knowledge they need at their fingertips. But what they lack is process.
My teacher's tale is not about having students walk through a blizzard to learn the rigors of education.
I didn’t like it back then, and Gen Z will certainly not like it now. No, I propose we make suffering sensual.
By turning their mountains into molehills, we teach students, inch by inch, that life is a cinch. We must show them how to reduce their success goals into daily two-minute activities. That way, they have no excuse. We gamify their goals.
Listen, Tyrek or Elliot (depending on who and where you teach) want to get the bag, listen to the Wall Street Journal on the Audible app for two minutes. Want to become a nurse? Read Medical Apartheid for two minutes a day.
The youth are used to seeing finished products. Filters. Celebrities living their best lives. Little do they know the hours it takes to reach perfection. If we rush them, they will become overwhelmed. So, we teach them to reduce challenges to two-minute activities.
Besides, if they know how the sausage was made, they might stop eating glizzies. In other words, we must give them Sunny Delight to wash down their medicine.
We must teach them to learn through consistency and atomic habits. Because a journey of 1000 miles begins with one step.
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