Tom Rath

Yeah.

I mentioned I got into this just kind of thinking about it.

My wife's a second-grade teacher.

I'm obviously a writer.

And I asked my daughter when she was 14 three years ago, what do you think you might want to do?

And just out of curiosity, not like a formal thing.

And she said, oh, I think I might want to be a writer or maybe a teacher.

I'm like, well, that's how it –

And that's how, I mean, that's exactly how I ended up in the job I'm in right now and most people I interview, 95 out of 100.

So I realized at that moment that even my kids who have great public school system and everything else and good resources, they're probably going to need to pick a major in college and a career

with, well, looking out of a little pinhole of what's available and what's out there.

So I've spent much of the last three to five years sending camera crews and production crews out to look at a day in the life of what it's like to be a veterinarian, what it's like to be a pilot, what it's like to be an engineer, so that

young people can gain a broader sense and field of view around that.

So, I mean, a big part of my personal mission is just helping people to think much broader about what they potentially could be so that they don't end up, I'm 50 years old right now, and I really wish I would have known someone or seen someone in medicine because I think that might have been my superpower, but it's probably too late now and I never got to see that, right?

And I think we all have those little superpowers where it's kind of, it's,

And there's some excitement about that as job markets change with automation and AI and everything else where I don't think people should be as scared of reinvention because most of us are doing what we're doing today just because it's what we saw and we kind of fell into a default.

And even we have a chapter that gets into this in the book, but I think even most people's, if you ask them about their childhood dreams, they're not really their childhood dreams.

So I think their childhood dreams of their parents and social expectations and a lot of other things.

And we never really stepped back to challenge that because we get caught in the vacuum of expectations by the time we were 15 or something.

Two percent.