Chapter 3: What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
1. Choices
made only on the basis of money or status, or on somebody else’s recommendations,
tend to go stale for us. For example, the teacher taught you to get good grades
in school to become a doctor and be wealthy.
2. Schools
actually decrease our potential for success because of the way they are geared
to specialization. And the kind of specialization we’ve become accustomed to in
this country leads straight into career traps that rib us of our dreams and rob
the world of our greatest potential.
3. Over-specialization
leads us to extinction. We need an educational system which teaches general principles
that would be transferable to any specialized profession. This would permit
people to switch careers with minimum retraining.
4. With
the world changing as fast as it presently does, specialization is dangerous.
5. Some
of such skills that are applicable in a variety of jobs and professions
include: sales, communication skills, ability to motivate other, time
management, reasoning skills, creativity, and many others.
6. My
suggestion is to begin looking for jobs where you can learn, not just earn.
Commit a number of years of your life to increasing your generalized skills in
business as well as in whatever specialized skills you may presently have.
Specialists must work for generalists unless the specialist is also a
generalist.
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