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What do you want to be when you grow up?

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I remember those words ever so strongly as a kid, although mine were always met with You can't or you won't people were dumb in those days in regards to race. But our generation grew up smarter and wiser. Or maybe not so much but we all got done over by our governments. Tax this tax that, do this, do that. We all ended up messed up.

It's imbedded in our education system, a broken out dated model that was developed at the rise of the industrial revolution. To condition humans to be able to go to work which was a factor for 16 hours a day, stand in the same spot and do a repeated action all day for the rest of their lives.

It was an early class system and depending where you came from would dictate which part of that chain you'd be on. Management, worker, pawn.

So all these can't and won't were imbedded in the fact people teaching us couldn't. But the times were changing and our generation wasn't going to remain in a broken system, well. Not everyone. Many wanted it to remain others wanted it broken. Hence the generational divide and the "Ok Boomer" movement. These times are unprecedented. Children born of the industrial revolution completely shunning it as a shit, broken system. When forced to participate, they disengage leading to boomers saying were entitled. But they're the ones the suffer in the long run. It's a ticking time bomb each year something else blowing up.

If you know what you're watching you can map it and watch it, I've been doing it for years. Sitting at the older end I was involved in that cohort of the generation that wanted more.but my numbers were low so many got pushed back into place. Those numbers are changing and the world is breaking, or being re modelled into a new world.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

I remember this question, because I did not know, I still don't and I'm mid 30s. Many of the other kids would say police, fire truck, doctor, much of it maybe pressured by parents. I know my grandparents wanted me to be a doctor. But I didn't know what I wanted to be because I didn't know what was out there.

The sad part is humans can be conditioned, well at an early age. Kids will listen to every word an adult says if not they're deemed naughty. I have raised my daughter and will do my son to be naughty. I don't want them to listen and follow I want them to think and lead. It has served me well despite all my detentions.

What is work?

I think this is part of the imbedded problem we live in a system that instructs us to work hard, but work hard as what? Where? All that early conditioning if not faught off at a young age and people buy into it leads to chronic mental health issues, depression and feelings of uselessness and destruction to your self worth. You've done everything you've been told and you're life hasn't turned out like you were told it would.

That's because no one today can tell you what tomorrow will bring. By the time I am old and frail the world will be different again. Which is why when people ask me "how did you do it?" "What should I do?" I instruct them to forget their own path, fight the system, focus on what you believe is right.

A clear example is block chain tech, 10 years if not longer Boomers fought it, said it would destabilise the economy. Whose economy? Whose system? Theirs of course.

Eventually they buckled because more and more people were getting involved, more of the younger generation were and it was becoming a common talking point amongst young people. One thing I have learned if you want to maintain your position in life you need to look at the trends of the youth as that will make the future economy.

Don't believe me?

When the internet was launched and people started flocking to it no one would believe it would change anything. Many faught it, wanted it regulated and didn't want the world the change. These people came in two parts, those that could see their wealth was at risk and didn't want the internet impacting them and those that just followed.

The ones that blindly follow always intrigue me as they are quite often the ones to benefit but they will blindly follow rich people because they perceive them to be right and if they follow them they too will be rich, but as above it doesn't work that way.

The internet has transformed the way we shop, the way we look for things, the way we communicate, it's created affordable connections and built a smaller world. Anyone in their right mind would have seen an electronic currency to fit it. News flash, they did. But people have been fighting it. Some just because others because they wanted to do it.

Bitcoin is successful and took that place because it belongs to no one and everyone at the same time. See satushi created something ant it is one thing to create but to give it away is a harder move. Even if Satoushi kept 1000+ bitcoins or even half the stack it is less money then he would have made through people using it. But if he/she retained ownership it never would have blown up and we wouldn't be here right now.

We use words now to be agile and innovative because those of us who have made it have learned one thing. We did the opposite to the trend. We didn't know what we wanted to he when we grew up and we still don't know. But we just do.

Be your own leader, take risks, not all will succeed and you will fail and lose alot. But one pay off is all it takes. Do things because YOU believe in them and you enjoy them. Not because someone else tells you how to. No one will ever give you the right or real advice, not even me. Only you can make that decision, so make it.

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