Bill Burnett

So your 20-year-old self's job is to give your 28-year-old self some interesting options.

Now, don't mean sit on the couch at mom and dad's house and wait for something to land in your lap.

Get out there, start living, do things, learn your way forward, all that stuff we talk about in all our books.

But if you're 20-something, it's going to get more interesting.

So don't give up yet.

Now, externally, the macro situation we're all living in, I mean, the macro situation I was living in in 1976 when I graduated college is pretty radically different from what's going on right now 50 years later.

People are feeling powerless for a good reason because people with power are hanging on to it and exercising it pretty egregiously right now, personal point of view.

That being said, okay.

There are systems that are bigger than you.

The question then says, do you want to spend your time working on those systems?

Bill's got a son named Ben who's currently working in Congress.

He's going to go directly after the problem.

I'm not going directly after the problem.

I'm writing books about meaning making for everybody else in the meantime.

I hope that leaves the campground a little better than I found it.

So find what you can do within the constraints of reality.

Maybe it's different than your parents' generation.

Who cares?

That was then, this is now.

What world are you in?