Adults need to encourage kids to experiment. Can be as small as playing a new sport. Or starting a micro-business.
Many successful people took the path less traveled. They ignored the 'safe' options.
Starts with being told as a child it's ok to fail.
4/ Get kids to be creators
This whole creator economy thing? Why not get kids to be creators?
Art, videos, zines, whatever.
The goal's not to make a million bucks before they turn 10.
The goal's to get kids into the habit of building and creating, not just consuming.
5/ Teach kids how to hustle
'Hustle' is a word that's used a lot in the startup world.
Not all founders who hustle will be successful, but founders who don't know how to hustle almost have no chance of becoming successful.
Hustle is both nature and nurture. Start them young.
6/ Help kids learn to be resourceful
Some people call it street smarts.
Being resourceful is the ability to make things happen despite limited resources.
Brian Chesky selling Obama O’s cereal boxes to fund Airbnb is a great example.
The world needs more mavericks.
Founders with the imagination, grit and resourcefulness to uplift the disadvantaged and make life more meaningful for everyone else.
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This is what I learnt sitting on the board of a 3 person startup that grew to 61,000 employees in 6 countries.
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1/ Know when to move on
The Ninja Van founders were running a startup making custom shirts. Marcella was not doing well.
While running Marcella they realised existing logistics providers are not set up for e-commerce.
So they left Marcella to start Ninja Van.
2/ A founding team that stays together despite a failed startup has a much better shot at success with their next startup
Marcella had 5 founders. 2 of the 5 left early to start Ninja Van. After Marcella shut down, the remaining 3 joined. All 5 are still at Ninja Van today.
If you don't think the education system is broken, read these 10 tweets
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How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into a setting where they are organized by age, into grades, and forced to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 12 + years? @anafabrega11
This is sad, but most kids are preparing for jobs that will be irrelevant in the future. - @vladstan