Start Following Your Dreams

Start Following Your Dreams, Stop Worrying About What You're 'Supposed to Do'.

"Once a young person has chased a dream, built a team, and changed his or her small world, he or she has the power to express love and respect in action..."  Bill Drayton, CEO at Ashoka, explores what making mistakes can do to help your success.  He begins talking about how much he hated math and Latin in school but new he loved to start things.  So what did he do?  He began a newspaper business after obtaining a small printing machine.  He wasn't worried about whether the business would be successful or not, he just followed his dream. 

Drayton says the same can be applied to the design world.  You have to take risks and be willing to fail to succeed.  "The only way they can do so is by practicing, failing, collaborating, learning from mistakes, and taking responsibility for making a difference."  Empathy, teamwork, and leadership are the core values here.  Offering the future leaders (US) the opportunity to invent and reinvent things is pertinent to success.  He suggests, take risks, don't be afraid, and try something new.  It is not all about the education you have, but what you are willing to do with it. 

“If we want children to be inventors, we have to give them opportunities to invent…If we want them to be problem solvers, we [must] give them moments of independence to figure out things for themselves.”