Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

It's a problem because you lose the pipeline.

I mean, there is a great benefit in learning the trade and learning while doing.

If you start, I mean, lots of companies from McDonald's to Ford had CEOs that emerged from assembly lines and from kind of learning the trades, or if not, they put people through that kind of training.

Secondly, you get the richness of different generations interacting.

And I would say,

Third, you actually learn from younger people that just enter.

What's wrong?

What could be done differently?

People who haven't been institutionalized and who are outsiders, you know, see a different perspective.

So it'll be a real shame.

Also, at a societal level, if you have a lot of young people who are idle and unemployed, it usually doesn't end up very well.

You know, you get unrest or antisocial behavior, et cetera.

So I think some organizations are getting it, but the temptation is like, instead of cutting senior roles to cut that, let's see.

But at the moment it's looking a little bit concerning, I think, on that spectrum.

I don't know what you're seeing.

If you're seeing the same, what's your experience?

the best level of confidence is that which aligns with your actual competence.

So if you're trying to learn a language or play the piano or be good at sales or business development or executive search, it helps

to know how good you are.

It helps to know what you know, and what you don't know, because then you can get better.