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🌍 Why Everyone Is a Beginner Right Now (Even Experts!)

LIP #238
May 29, 2025

Here's something surprising - even people with 60 or 70 years of experience are beginners when it comes to personal agency.

Why? Because our whole world - school, work, companies - was built to train people to follow someone else's lead. Only the top 1-2% were ever expected to drive strategy.

The world is changing fast:

  • Big tech hired 24% fewer junior workers from 2023 to 2024
  • AI is replacing entry-level analytical work
  • New graduates can't get experience without jobs

Learning new things gets harder as we get older because we have more habits to unlearn - and unlearning is actually harder than learning.

The good news? A growth mindset says:

'Being wrong is fine. Being stagnant is not.'

Whether you're 22 or 62, now is the time to start thinking and acting for yourself.

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