The big problem today in our world right now is that exponential technological change is rendering so many things in terms of what our kids are learning obsolete. Forty five percentage of jobs today will not exist 10 years from now, and it\u2019s crazier. According to Singularity University, between 2016 and 2022, We are going to see as much Technological change in the World as the entire 100 years between 1900 to 2000. think about that. So the idea is this, Stop asking your teenagers, \u201cWhat you want to be when you are grow up.?\u201d or \u201cWhat do you want to study..?\u201d they are dangerous questions. these are wrong questions. They get a teenager stuck on an idea of their future for a world that will no longer exist. When you ask that to a kid, they are going to say \u201c well, i want to be a Doctor, may be I\u2019m thinking about become a Lawyer. may be i want to be an Engineer. may be I want to go into marketing field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
All these careers, all these jobs are changing because of robotics, because of Artificial Intelligence, because of advanced algorithms and emerging new technologies. These are changing at a rapid pace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peter Diamonds said, \u201cten years from now, you will not want a doctor operating on you. You\u2019re going to be operated on by robots. \u201c But it\u2019s not just technological change, It\u2019s also that may so many jobs today are utter bullshit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They do jot produce anything that\u2019s actually valuable or progressive the human race. They are jobs in large multinational food companies where your entire career is about thinking up ways to come up with fancier names for sugar, So you can put garbage into people bodies, or to come up with ways to brand high fructose corn sugar as happiness in a red can. all most top marketing graduates are doing these jobs now. and not at all thinking about what they did for human race. We do not want that happening to our teenagers. So here\u2019s what you want to ask your kid. Ask them, not, \u201cWhat do you want to be when you grow up.?\u201d but \u201c How do you want to contribute to the world when you grown up..?\u201d That question changes everything. When you ask a kid , \u201chow do you want to contribute to this world. .?\u201d You are not putting them down a narrow path, you\u2019re having them open up their mind to a wide field of possibilities and to a life that\u2019s about meaning and contribution. They are less likely to seduced into a bullshit job selling more crap that we don\u2019t need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There may have fantastic and amazing answers from your teenagers when you are ask like this. that may help them to get a right path of career and which will help them to emerge a life that\u2019s actually giving back to the spaces. And those are the careers that gives us the greatest amount of fulfillment. Thera are the people we need in the world today. So remember you want to prepare your kids for the future , ask them this one question , \u201cHow are you planning on contributing to the human race..?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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