Work hard AND smart.
So you’re saying that after I take a disappointing shower I should get in bed and lay there and weep?
We are lending money we don’t have to kids who can’t pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That’s nuts.
Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.
Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by. Which is why I’m more inclined to say, ‘Don’t Follow Your Passion, But Always Bring it With You.’
Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we’ve scrubbed the dirt off the face of work, and consequently we’ve created this suspicion of anything that’s too dirty.
The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.
What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.
People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they’re either in the midst of or that they’re the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.
Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That’s what made their deaths so tragic.
The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.
Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.
Not all knowledge comes from college.
Don’t follow your passion, but always bring it with you.
Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs.
Nobody makes a turd like that and lives.