Simon Squibb
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Yeah, that's what I mean.
And do you know what?
There's nothing wrong with not knowing.
But I think there is something wrong with not asking the question.
Because in the school system, and one of the reasons I'm really upset with the school system, the first question they ask you, my son was four when they asked him this question.
They asked him, what will you do when you grow up?
I think that's very trapping.
He looked at me at four years old.
The teacher was asking him.
Suddenly he has to make me happy.
a doctor, a lawyer.
What's going to make the teacher happy, the parent happy?
Their brain is getting trapped into like a thing that's going to make us happy, not what's going to make them happy.
It's the wrong question.
I think the question we should be asking ourselves when we're young is what problem we'd like to solve.
If we ask ourselves what problem we'd like to solve, the brain opens up a bit.
And so it's opening up the brain is partly why I ask people what their dream is.
Most people don't know what the answer is unless they're American.
Everybody in America knows the answer.
I know, what do they put in the water?