sam vuong
@samjvuong
co-founder @renaissanceabc. gen z building a new education renaissance. ex- cmo treasure. married to @karelvuong.
For the first 18 years of their life, we tell kids "ambitious" means high grades, balancing extracurriculars, and getting into prestigious universities. But this narrow, shallow definition of success often leaves kids miserable and directionless once they get there. 🧵
And thanks, @samjvuong , for appreciating our commitment to developing agency at @socraticexp :
Unlike traditional schools, many alternative schools are building with agentic ambition as a core outcome. @socraticexp is a great example. They run daily Purpose classes around Ikigai: "What do you love? What are you good at? What does the world need? What will it pay for?"
~100% of the time someone’s accused of being “too ambitious”, the real problem is that they’re either chasing the wrong ambition or trading in real ambition for a self-soothing counterfeit If anything, this means they’re not being ambitious enough
I call this the middle class trap.
For the first 18 years of their life, we tell kids "ambitious" means high grades, balancing extracurriculars, and getting into prestigious universities. But this narrow, shallow definition of success often leaves kids miserable and directionless once they get there. 🧵
A great thread by @samjvuong :
For the first 18 years of their life, we tell kids "ambitious" means high grades, balancing extracurriculars, and getting into prestigious universities. But this narrow, shallow definition of success often leaves kids miserable and directionless once they get there. 🧵
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