3 Billion x 100,000

Nov 21, 2022

🧠 3 Billion

That’s the number of young people in the world — teens, youth, young adults.

The largest percentage of them are in India, Africa, and Latin America — where the population skews much younger compared to the US and EU.

⏰ 100,000

The number of life hours the average person allocates to work during a lifetime.

That’s equivalent to eleven and a half life years.

🛢🔋Natural resources

The US and other advanced economies perfected the capture-and-conversion of natural resources into valuable goods, be it natural gas, arable land, solar energy, precious metals, or wind to name a few.

But in the US and around the world, the most valuable natural resource of them all — the unique genius inside every young person’s mind — is massively untapped.

💰The stakes can’t be higher

The stakes can’t be higher.

Remember, we’re talking about 3,000,000,000 people.

People and economies are taking monumental losses when failing to convert raw potential into nifty skills.

Who could tell how a young person — given the opportunity to uncover and convert her or his true genius into useful skills — might contribute in the future?

As Picasso said, “the meaning of life is to find your gift; the purpose of life is to give it away.”