“What do you wanna be when you grow up?” is one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child.

Here’s why👇🏼

First, it fosters the wrong kind of mindset by encouraging kids to define themselves in terms of a career and a single identity.

“As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.” @MichelleObama
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Second, it ignores two important factors:

What if their ideal job hasn’t been invented?

15 years ago no one thought it would be possible to make a living out of making YouTube videos.

Help kids see that their future self doesn’t exist right now and that their interests may change over

What if they wanna do more than one thing?

The average person ends up holding a dozen different jobs.

Teach kids that they don’t have to do or be one thing—they can do many things. Teach them that it's ok to rethink their chosen line of work and switch gears when necessary.

In 2012 @Prof_Malhotra gave a moving speech to the graduating class at Harvard Business School.

"Quit early, quit often—not because it's hard, but because it sucks,” he proposed.

We don’t emphasize this enough in