I agree with him when he says that when we are young, we have dreams and passions but that those get crushed, we are told we don’t study enough or hard enough. People want to get us a tutor in what we suck at and I understand why. However, you crush kids by not focusing on what they are really good at and strengthening those. I believe it is important to strengthen things you are already good at rather than try and strengthen things we already are not strong in because they are just not our things and what we are interested in.
Schools put ideas in our heads to be lawyers and doctors and accountants but why can’t we do something we are really good at rather than working 50x harder in something that we just are not going to understand? I really liked this weeks ted talk because of how much it makes you think.
I was raised by parents who wanted to force me to be a firefighter, force me to go to college. The issue with that is that when you push something on your kids, they don’t want to do it. I wanted to be a sign language interpreter and coming out of high school, I already had 4 years of classes under my belt. I am fluent and that is something I want to do. However, I am getting pushed to go to college simply to get a small AA Degree.
I think my mom finally realized that I don’t need it and all college will do after my AA is put me in debt with student loans. She is not pushing me to become an entrepreneurial and I’m excited to see where it takes me.
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