Bill Gurley
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like an obligation to, especially maybe- Decisions that they locked in when they were 17.
Yeah, well, and that's another thing.
When I was younger, the colleges wouldn't let you declare a major until the end of your sophomore year.
Many schools, you have to apply to the major now.
So we've moved the decision of what major you're going to pick from the end of your sophomore year to the end of your junior year in high school.
Mm-hmm.
Like that's, you know, three years forward and less time to โ there's a lot of people, a lot of smart people that just say we don't allow children enough time to explore.
And, you know, Haidt says it.
He has a chapter called Let the Awesome Play or something.
Yeah.
Rick Rubin's been pounding on this.
He talks about it in his book.
Is that another one?
Yeah.
um like i i mentioned i think uh when when about 10 years after duckworth wrote grit she said that she wished she had positioned it as 50 50 passion and perseverance and she if she could do it again she'd put more on the passion because she thinks we taught a whole generation of of the high performer children how to grind like we taught them to persevere which is
What is?
Finding it.
Like, finding it and knowing it, you know.
Knowing it's a little easier, but finding it.
There are a lot of 17-year-olds who appropriately, if you ask them, what is your passion?