Lloyd Blankfein

And so learning, you know, look, when I was growing up, everybody wanted to learn, you know,

My predecessor, Hank Paulson, spent so much of his time, as did I, in going to China.

Well, at least temporarily.

We're not going to be making as many investments in China as we once did.

There's not none, but it's not going to be as much.

Or when I was growing up, everybody wanted to learn Japanese because those were the winners in the tech stuff.

And I remember a time when Silicon Valley was Route 128 in Boston.

And there was no Silicon Valley.

It was around Harvard and MIT, not around Stanford.

So...

I would say things change, and in order to be resilient, a better person, and also, I hate to minimize this, for your own sake, yep, learn humanities, learn history, learn those things, and that's what you're, you know, we're at a point now where most people who are young are going to live to be, you know, they're going to actually live longer, and they seem to be in much more of a rush to be a, you know, to be, you know, a success in your kinds of enterprises, and, you know, I don't, you know, you'll,

Some people will encourage it.

I don't think that your only productive years are when you're 18 through 24.

I totally agree.

And everyone will learn what you need for your career afterwards.

And I think it'd be, you know, my humble opinion, but again, this is why interesting, you know, I'm an older guy.

No, I mean, it's back to kind of where we started the conversation.

You know, I don't personally believe people should drop out of school.

I learned so much from my peers.

It changed my life.