Dave Evans

But on average, seven.

Seven or eight is the average.

Seven or eight.

People want eight lives.

And I go, well, that just proves our theory.

There's more than one life in you.

If you could have all those lives, wouldn't it be cool?

Well, and particularly now, I tell my students, don't you hope five, ten years from now you're doing a job that hasn't even been invented yet?

I mean, do you really want to constrain yourself to, I'm just going to be this computer scientist or I'm just going to be this economist or something?

Because, first of all, jobs are going to change.

We're in the age of AI.

Everything's going to be different.

And, and you can look at that and be terrified, or you can look at that and go, wow, there's going to be so many new things that show up.

All I have to do is pay attention, you know, as these jobs disappear and reappear.

Like when I got out of Stanford long years ago, when, you know, dinosaurs still roamed, you know, white Plaza, you have to learn drafting to be a designer drafting on a drafting table with a, with a pencil.

He's done that in 40 years.

And now I can just do something on my phone and print it on a 3D printer.

It's amazing.

And so if you stay in the growth mindset, if you stay curious, the next 10 or 15 years are going to be amazing for jobs, for careers, for possibilities.

Get your boat in the water now.