“Education is important, but why is being happy and healthy not considered education, I just don’t get it. So I’ve been studying the science of being happy and healthy. It really comes down to practicing these eight things. Exercise, diet and nutrition, time in nature, contribution, service to others, relationships, recreation, relaxation and stress management, and religious or spiritual involvement, yes, got that one.

So these eight things come from Dr. Roger Walsh, he calls them Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes or TLCs for short. He is a scientist that studies how to be happy and healthy. In researching this talk, I got a chance to ask him a few questions like; do you think that our schools today are making these eight TLCs a priority? His response was no surprise, it was essentially no. But he did say that many people do try to get this kind of education outside of the traditional arena, through reading and practices such as meditation or yoga.

But what I thought was his best response was that, much of education is oriented for better or worse towards making a living rather than making a life.”

–  Logan LaPlante, Hackschooling makes me happy: Logan LaPlante at TEDxUniversityofNevada

It’s 1  : 55 PM on day 1196 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to  pray,  brush my teeth, read 1 Chronicles 29,  publish my Disability of the Day feature, feed myself boiled egg and bran flakes for breakfast, publish my Kid of the Week feature, go to church and go to the mall.