The next generation

My 10 year old who is in 5th grade approached me with homework Yesterday. The worksheet from school said: "Define strategies for your SMART goals in 2021". I was surprised. SMART goals in 5th grade? Wow! Because it's the time of the year: Why do we set goals? What happens in our brain we set goals What are the pitfalls in a corporate setting? 

The only thing we all have in common is that no one does the same thing for 40 years anymore. There is a 100% chance that what we do at the end of our careers is not what we began with in the first place. Was your current job a deliberate choice to stimulate your own progress and if the answer is yes: when do you think will you have learned enough and it is time to find a new challenge? Timing is of the essence in all the choices that we make. How is your timing? 

Getting disrupted by a tech start-up and see decades of developmental work wiped away in a few years hurts a lot. Change is never forgiving, but it’s always been like this. It is the next generation's mission to outpace their parents. That is normal.

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