What do you want to be when you grow up - if you grew up backwards?
When I was 11 and in grade school, I wanted to be 14 and in high school. When I was in high school, I wanted the freedom college was going to bring. When I was in my first post-college job at 21, I wanted to have the experience and confidence a 30 year old had at the company I worked at.
Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw
“What do I want to be when I grow up?”
At almost every stage of our life, we think about growing up. What’s the next and better thing we are going to grow into.
It doesn’t stop at a personal level either. People love to ask this of non-human things. Business folk and investors love to ask companies: What’s your business going to be when it grows up. I’ve done this over and over again.
The problem with asking this question is that we ask it before we know who we already are.
So a more useful question is to ask yourself: What would remain if...