Embedding learning, change, adaptation into how you move forward is absolutely critical.
The willingness to engage in challenge, in hard things, in difficult problems I think is critical right now and yeah, it’s a bit of a clarion call especially to younger generations to say, and this again goes into that conversation around achievement because I think we’ve prepared a lot of young people to just build that golden resume and they’re afraid that anything that looks to hard or to contentious will get them into trouble and then somehow smudge their record.
I say go looking for a teacher, not a fight because all the hardest things in the world are the best teachers. All the challenging conversations, the thorny problems, the stuff that requires you to pour over it for a while, those are the places where you learn and you grow and I think, because where we’re being replaced by robots as we’re told every single day now, our ability to problem solve, our ability to create, our ability to connect as humans is going to become and is right now evermore important.
Embedding learning, embedding change, embedding adaptation into your worldview and into your approach to how you move forward is absolutely critical. I’m speaking a lot to young people about that: don’t feel like there’s something wrong if everything doesn’t lead seamlessly one thing to the next. You don’t necessarily want it to. And by the way, it’s probably not going to. That might not be the way your generations lives look.
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