Real talk.
Something I explained to my 12 yo: When you're a little kid, your parents create your environment. Then there's a second stage where your peers do. Then for ambitious people there's a third stage where you create your own environment by choosing your own peers.
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Tim Urban has a nice metaphor for this. You start out in a small stream, childhood. Everyone gets funneled into the river of adolescence, swept on mostly the same path, until college, where you’re in a lagoon of optionality (more freedom but less direction. Adulthood is the ocean
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And most adults stay close to shore...
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You should also explain that many of the worst abuses of power in human history were the result of someone being very successful in stage 3.
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Brilliant lesson
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Would you say say the non ambitious people stay at the second stage or is there advancement/regression for them as well?
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Thank you for sharing boss man
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