Brené Brown
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Steve Jobs said, my kids don't have an iPad.
And then his biographer who spent time with his family said, he wasn't kidding.
There's no technology.
At dinner, they're talking about art and history.
The hardest chapter I've ever written in my life of any book was the chapter on grounded competence and strong ground.
What is the set of skill sets and mindsets that I think we're going to need to future ready and future proof ourselves to be leaders moving forward?
And I think what was hard about it was the complexity of it was probably a combination of 30 different mindsets and skill sets.
And when I was done, you know, for commercial reasons, someone on my team immediately said, geez, this is like, if you can train people in these things, this is really, this is like really important.
And the first thing I thought was, fuck that, my kids.
Train Schmane.
I get it.
It's important.
Like, we'll develop some instrumentation, measure it.
We'll train folks in it.
I think it's trainable.
It's teachable.
It's measurable.
But really, I want this for my kids.
Yes.
I want my kids to know systems thinking.