Why do they want to stay in the same sections of their cities that they'd grown up in, in their parents' houses, in fact, rather than move across town, much less to another country for more opportunity?
Young, unburdened, educated, these young people are reluctant to leave home, you said, and it complicates finding the people your company needs to manage its global business.
You wonder where the spirit of adventure has gone in this generation, and how you could make sure you engender it in your infant son.
Overnight I pondered the point and today we returned to the question. It seems to me that there are many arenas of adventure, I easily came up with 10, where risks of failure or loss are regularly taken and discomfort accepted for the sake of the fast-beating heart, the surprises, attainments, personal challenge, or more tangible rewards.
Leadership, that is, getting a group to move to a better place, can be an adventure. Discovery, the coming to know what before we didn't, can be also.
Taste, one's exposure to new foods, styles, music and other aspects of culture, can be a field of adventure, as can creation, the bringing of concepts into concrete being. Exploration once was standard occasion for adventure, and still is. Relationships can be an adventure, as for instance, adoption. A career from its outset is an adventure, as is the management of complex systems, especially involving people. Politics on the level of statemanship has the hallmarks of adventure as does faith, what we makes sense as the path between confidence and doubt, nihilism and meaning, justice and practicality.
What may seem burdensome from one angle may be adventurous from another. Part may be an anticipation of who we or how things will be as a result of adventure; always at least we'll be those who dared. Another may be finding ways to be comfortable sometimes being uncomfortable. Discomfort management is something I'm famiiar with from running sometimes in brutal winter conditions. Particularly important is monitoring fatigue. Also key is managing retrospective fear which can surface even if adventures end well.
You talked about how to teach your young son to be open to, indeed to welcome, adventure. He's still so young, but just at the beginning of the age when the seeds of dreams are planted in us. I mentioned books that had inspired me as a boy.
Programs of encounter are the backbone of adventure in our lives. I see people my age seeking adventure in each of these arenas: my friend Yori in community activitism, people taking up painting, travel, new boyfriends or girlfriends, or just friend friends, second or third careers, experiments in cooking and clothing, new forms of exercise and new principles of belief. Not all adventure is life or death; in fact, its mostly life.
Young, unburdened, educated, these young people are reluctant to leave home, you said, and it complicates finding the people your company needs to manage its global business.
You wonder where the spirit of adventure has gone in this generation, and how you could make sure you engender it in your infant son.
Overnight I pondered the point and today we returned to the question. It seems to me that there are many arenas of adventure, I easily came up with 10, where risks of failure or loss are regularly taken and discomfort accepted for the sake of the fast-beating heart, the surprises, attainments, personal challenge, or more tangible rewards.
Leadership, that is, getting a group to move to a better place, can be an adventure. Discovery, the coming to know what before we didn't, can be also.
Taste, one's exposure to new foods, styles, music and other aspects of culture, can be a field of adventure, as can creation, the bringing of concepts into concrete being. Exploration once was standard occasion for adventure, and still is. Relationships can be an adventure, as for instance, adoption. A career from its outset is an adventure, as is the management of complex systems, especially involving people. Politics on the level of statemanship has the hallmarks of adventure as does faith, what we makes sense as the path between confidence and doubt, nihilism and meaning, justice and practicality.
What may seem burdensome from one angle may be adventurous from another. Part may be an anticipation of who we or how things will be as a result of adventure; always at least we'll be those who dared. Another may be finding ways to be comfortable sometimes being uncomfortable. Discomfort management is something I'm famiiar with from running sometimes in brutal winter conditions. Particularly important is monitoring fatigue. Also key is managing retrospective fear which can surface even if adventures end well.
You talked about how to teach your young son to be open to, indeed to welcome, adventure. He's still so young, but just at the beginning of the age when the seeds of dreams are planted in us. I mentioned books that had inspired me as a boy.
Programs of encounter are the backbone of adventure in our lives. I see people my age seeking adventure in each of these arenas: my friend Yori in community activitism, people taking up painting, travel, new boyfriends or girlfriends, or just friend friends, second or third careers, experiments in cooking and clothing, new forms of exercise and new principles of belief. Not all adventure is life or death; in fact, its mostly life.
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