Will Humphreys tells new graduates drowning in debt to own their choices and approach the problem methodically, like a clinical evaluation. He frames moving forward as deliberate steps to the next life stage, and notes reduced maturity among recent graduates, potentially from pandemic effects.
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If you attack your every problem the way you attack a patient, the way that we were trained to do an evaluation.
They go hand in hand, then it doesn't become intimidating to say, okay, I'm going to run a business now, or I want to run a business. Because I think that if you're in the debt that you are today and you're a new graduate, you're going, how on earth am I ever going to get out of this? Well, I would say you have a few choices. And life is about choices. Bottom line. You made the choice to go to that school. You made the choice to take that debt. Let's own that, okay? Let's not shy away from it. Let's not say, I got talked to. I didn't know what I was getting. You made that choice, all right? For right or wrong, you made that choice, all right? So now let's make some choices moving forward that are going to help you to get to that next place. So really, what is that? And again, I think this is hard for them to define, and I kind of believe the pandemic had a little bit to do with this, is that there's not as much maturity at that moment, and I don't mean that in a bad way.