Louis CarterFounder and Chief Executive Officer, Best Practice Institute · Founder and CEO, Best Practice Institute - Most Loved Workplace® | Organizational Psychologist | Creator of AI Workplace Intelligence and Employer Branding Platform

Unlock Your Child's Potential: Field Trips & Early Skills Matter! #shorts

4 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Kids need hands-on experiences like field trips and museum visits to spark curiosity. Elon Musk's early fascination with space and shop work shaped his later achievements. Autistic people thrive across jobs from programming to fence building when they develop work skills young.

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I also— kids have got to get out doing things. Field trips I think are important. Going to museums, um, seeing lots of stuff, that's so important. I mean, Elon Musk has now disclosed that he's autistic, um, it's, it's, uh, he always loved space stuff and he read science fiction books. He also grew up working in with things in a shop too. The other big thing is most the people I've worked with learned work skills really early on. I have granddads coming up to me all the time that find out they're autistic when the kids get diagnosed. They could be in computer programming, they could be an accountant, they could be someone building fences, lots of different jobs.