No. 25: Misfits or graduates, parenting with restraint, and how to thrive in your 20s
Apple's featured misfits informs us that a 4-year degree isn't the only path
Welcome to Future You where we cover stories and resources to help young people navigate the future of work.
First, some numbers…
54 million - Average daily Roblox users
$150 million - Meta commits $150 million to create 10 virtual “metaversities”
$60 - for a 25-pound box of sprinkles is one inflationary expense that threatens ice cream truck businesses
How many Apple misfits were graduates?
In Apple’s famous Think Different campaign, they featured 33 different intellectual and cultural icons of our times. I wondered - how many held degrees?
After some research, I found only 12 were graduates of college or advanced degree holders.
These twelve include Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Jim Henson, Jerry Seinfeld, 14th Dalai Lama, Jane Goodall, James Watson, Issei Miyake, Osamu Tezuka, and Akio Morita.
For reference and a full list of the historical figures in Think Different, start here.
4 hard parenting rules after talking to 70 parents of highly successful kids
What is a parent’s role in raising smart, confident and successful children? What matters? What doesn’t? Though I am the mother of two happy and driven entrepreneurial sons, these are questions I never thought to ask.
As I researched and wrote my book, “Raising an Entrepreneur,” I interviewed 70 parents who raised highly successful adults. Here are their four hard parenting rules that differentiate them from most others:
Give kids extreme independence
Actively nurture compassion
Welcome failure early and often
Let go of control and lead by following
Read the 4 rules in detail on CNBC
Life lessons we should have learned in our 20s
While we explore the practicalities of the future of work, it’s easy for forget the mindset and stresses of growing up in these times. Jeffrey Froh, a professor of a popular positive psychology course at Hofstra University, addresses young adults with some advice to thrive.
Notoriously a time of great change, your 20s is the perfect time to start investing in yourself and your future while entering young adulthood. However, it’s also a time of confusion about your personal priorities and values, and it can be stressful to navigate new responsibilities, especially in the context of increased mental health concerns in recent years. It can be hard to know where to turn to for guidance, which is where Thrive excels: by imparting advice in a clearly structured and meaningful way.
Read the interview with author, Jeffrey Froh, at Greater Good
Till next time…
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done. - Andy Grove, Only The Paranoid Survive