Enough with politics for me for a few days.
Gen X, Gen Y, and Millennials - You'd do well to watch this 10 min. vid on how to adapt to today's fast changing business climate. You might be pleasantly surprised to know that despite the steady barrage of bad news, most of you are "good enough"
@mchill saidVery very good. My takeaway, for what it is worth, since I am on the 'other side', is that we are all pretty much middle age, a bit past learning new stuff and pretty much ingrained in what we have, what we are.
Enough with politics for me for a few days.
Gen X, Gen Y, and Millennials - You'd do well to watch this 10 min. vid on how to adapt to today's fast changing business climate. You might be pleasantly surprised to know that despite the steady barrage of bad news, most of you are "good enough"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq4chzEHorI
So what is our new goal? To teach our children. I walked by a grade school today, I envisioned a child in there just going through the motions, going home and fooling around. We should all teach them AFTER school how to be successful, how to compete, how to be the best, how to outdo the next guy. They do that in sports, so, they can do it in business.
Just good enough is not a great goal.
Let us all make our kids successful. Look at it this way. SOMEbody will be big time successful. Why not my child?
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@averagejoe1 saidall about ambition...libs have killed it
Very very good. My takeaway, for what it is worth, since I am on the 'other side', is that we are all pretty much middle age, a bit past learning new stuff and pretty much ingrained in what we have, what we are.
So what is our new goal? To teach our children. I walked by a grade school today, I envisioned a child in there just going through the motions, going ho ...[text shortened]... . Look at it this way. SOMEbody will be big time successful. Why not my child?
Good article.
Ahhhh… the meaning of life.
To have fun. And be as happy as possible.
And there are various ways of achieving that.
Pursuing a career or competitiveness is one way. And it suits a select group of people.
Most people don’t flourish in that sort of environment. It’s very materialistic, long hours of doing what other people want and the majority of succesful people are very superficial.
Personally, I find people who have travelled abroad for at least a year of their lives to be the happiest (at least appear to be, anyway).
They have a broader spectrum of experiences and can generally comprehend others’ situations better.
As Bertrand Russel wrote, and I paraphrase, setting goals is good, achieving them is pointless, unless you enjoy the path it leads you on.
So, if you don’t like writing, don’t write a book. And if you enjoy writing, set a goal of finish writing a book. Whether you achieve the goal or not, you’ll enjoy the time you’ve spent writing.
@mchill saidNote: Gen Y are “millennials”
Enough with politics for me for a few days.
Gen X, Gen Y, and Millennials - You'd do well to watch this 10 min. vid on how to adapt to today's fast changing business climate. You might be pleasantly surprised to know that despite the steady barrage of bad news, most of you are "good enough"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq4chzEHorI
I don’t think this video panders to your stated premise that a specific generation is “good enough”; it talks more about what it takes for any generational individual to become “good enough” in the contemporary skills spaces. An idea which is a far more interesting notion than convincing an so called “entitled” generation(s) who have been told all there lives that they can “be whatever they want” that they they are actually just “good enough”.
I find it refreshing when working with Gen Y people that they are actually now Gen X or even Boomer in their attitudes, having emerged from being the corporate “precious ones” into a world of (until recently) cheap debt but also big reward for big effort…with the icing on the cake being the realisation that they will be inheriting the wealth from the ageing Boomers and Xers.
The problem all generations face, other than despotic lunatics, is the cost of retirement and old age generally. With life expectancy continuing to increase there simply isn’t enough wealth to sustain a reasonable standard of living in old age. We therefore face an apocalypse of age related poverty for all generations.
The idea of the video then should be for all of us to work to be “good enough” in our advancing years so we can continue to work longer and make retirement less of cliff edge into obscurity, hardship and disappointment.
@divegeester saidYes i see it that way as well. Id like to add a footnote that a child of an employee has more kids than he can afford. He has discovered an adequate (enough?!?) govt dole, entitlements. He relies, and will live, on it, satisfied and complacent.
Note: Gen Y are “millennials”
I don’t think this video panders to your stated premise that a specific generation is “good enough”; it talks more about what it takes for any generational individual to become “good enough” in the contemporary skills spaces. An idea which is a far more interesting notion than convincing an so called “entitled” generation(s) who ha ...[text shortened]... e to work longer and make retirement less of cliff edge into obscurity, hardship and disappointment.
He has NO inkling of getting ahead. I hope someone teaches HIS children to be more than enough. Is this loser not the def of ‘enough?
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In other words, you want YOUR child to be rich because you KNOW rich people are in the minority and the vast majority of folks will NEVER get rich so it is clear you are ONLY interested in being selfish.