Higher education teaches conformity, not independent thinking. Real career direction comes from hands-on experience and exposure to different industries, not university curricula. The speaker was inspired by an airplane at 14; today's internet offers even broader ways to discover what excites you.
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Unfortunately, getting out of university teach you more how to be in the system, not think outside that box. If you don't have a target, you're never going to get there, right? And whatever target you're going to set, it is always going to change multiple times on your journey to get there because you will learn something else on your way. And that's again the problem with kids in university is they haven't had enough life experiences in the real world to actually be exposed to enough businesses and industries to really see something that they might fall in love with. I was lucky when I was 14, I got up in the airplane, I'm like, wow. When you're going through school, you go to university, stuff except for what your parents did. Today with the internet and social media, there's a lot more exposure to different things. Something has to click in your head and say, this is something I really like, what can I do in that industry? You just got to get in the trenches.