Trae Stephens
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555 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 31 Jul
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Um, so no, I don't think it's about being a founder.
I think there are a lot of different good quests.
I think the real question is this question of like, you know, every serious country over the course of human history has wanted to turn their young people into executors and builders that are going to that are going to grow and create prosperity.
prosperity and you know, pull everyone up along with them.
Right now in the United States, we don't really have that anymore.
For the for the first time since I think the 1960s, the most aspirational job is being an influencer rather than an astronaut.
Like we should question what we're doing as a society if that's uh if that's what we end up believing is the most aspirational thing to do as a child.
And you know, children are I think the most important in this equation because when we're young, everybody aspires to greatness.
Like
Every child is thinking like, I wanna be a musician, I wanna be an astronaut, I wanna be like an inventor.
And then by the time that they go through the college experience, they get pooped out on the other end and it's like I'm a McKinsey consultant.
Bro, where did you lose your aspiration for greatness?
Like how does that even happen?
Um I think that's just a serious problem that we need to be thinking about as a as a culture and society.
Well,
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