This document outlines 4 secrets to achieving success in college and avoiding "Education's Death Valley". The secrets are: 1) Involvement through clubs and extracurricular activities, 2) Building relationships, 3) Being creative, and 4) Engaging in self-directed learning. It argues that the modern world is changing rapidly and many students are being trained for jobs that will no longer exist. To succeed, students must develop skills like collaboration and problem-solving, gain real-world experience through experiential learning, and build their personal brand. The goal is to equip students for the future world through a holistic college experience, not just classroom learning.

1. Experiences for
College/University
Success
Secrets to Escaping
Education’s Death
Valley!
By: Nelson David Bassey

2. 4 Secrets to Escaping Education’s Death Valley!
180,000
1,134,134Students enrolled in
Malaysian higher
education
institutions (2012)
Graduates every
year
 Prime
Minister’s 2013
Speech

3. “The world is changing. A great
mass of young people in
institutions today are being
trained and equipped for
unemployment, twenty years from
today.”
 Nelson David Bassey

4. Learning outcome
 Understand the foundation our
education system is built upon.
 Learn about the world that we face
ahead, and the world we’re leaving
behind .
 Know how to position yourself for
success through and beyond
university.

5. “The world is changing. A great
mass of young people in
institutions today are being
trained and equipped for
unemployment, twenty years from
today.”
 Nelson David Bassey

6. A world that
no longer
exist
The world
ahead
“In times of change, it is the learn-ers who will find
themselves beautifully equipped to face the world
ahead, while the learn-ed find themselves equipped
for a world that no longer exist.” which one are you?
 Eric Hoffer

7. Philosophy
Majority of the
people were
trying to
understand
the world,
learn from it,
be in harmony
with it and
dominate
territories!

8. Philosophy
It’s leaders
were trying to
shape the
world, mold it,
and use it for
their own
purposes!

9. The world that no longer exist…

10. 3 minutes video by Seth Godin on
“The End of Industrial Age”

11. The world that we face ahead…

12. Philosophy
Through mutually
beneficial
collaboration, we
are collectively
trying to fix
broken systems,
and solve the
problems cause
by our past
attempts in
shaping the world
for our own
purposes.

13. Degree (classroom Excellence)
Experiential Learning (Real world
accomplishments)
Brand Development (Your
propositional value to offer the
real world)
The New Generation Meaning of
College/University Success:

14. Achieve College/University Success
&
Escape the Education Death Valley
4 SECRETS to…

15. #1
INVOLVEMENT
Are You A
Club
Member?

16. #2
RELATIONSHIPS

17. #3
CREAT-IVITY

18. #4
SELF-DIRECTED
LEARNING
“We are shut up in schools, and colleges, and
recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and
come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of
words, and do not know a thing.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

19. 1 MORE THING…
Learn how to lead without
killing yourself and others!
www.thenewgenerationofleadership.com

20. Facebook Page :
www.facebook.com/TNGLeadership
www.jclathepencilbox.org
Title of Relevant Articles:
1. The Significance of College/University
2. Relevance in a Collaborative Age.
3. Four Experiences for College/University
Success.