John Gafford
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Podcast Appearances
That's not what I'm talking about.
What skills do you think are important to succeed in the new world?
See, I think that for me, and I talk to my kids about this all the time, I have two teenagers and it's like, listen, you know, having a high EQ, I think is going to be more important than having a high IQ in the future.
Luckily, my kids are very smart, but you know, because there's a whole generation of people in this country that walk around staring at a phone all day.
And I say the most important skill set I think you can develop is being able to sit at a table like this and connect with another human being at a visceral level that makes them feel seen and heard.
And I think that is going to be in short order.
Well, I'm going to say why I think people are curious.
I think, again, back to social media, part of it has made people so absorbed, completely self-absorbed.
I feel like it's so crazy.
There are people that follow me.
I appreciate everybody that follows me on social media.
But I literally could go on and make β
a comment about how the Choctaw Indians somehow influenced geopolitical power and oil prices in Chile.
And there's a couple people that I don't care what I write, they're going to have a comment in their opinion on it.
It's like you don't have to have an opinion on everything.
One of the most liberating, powerful things that I've ever started saying is, I don't have nor do I need to have an opinion on that.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
And if more people said, I don't know, I think it's better.