Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

Sometimes, low-level jobs are challenging even to someone with CEO potential.

Some people who are recovering from depression want to use the lessons they're learned in coping with depression and their empathy for people with depression. Others want their career to have nothing to do with depression.

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

I believe that a core problem with undergraduate education, especially at research universities like Harvard, Stanford, NYU, etc, is that most teaching is done by PhDs, who by temperament, training, interests, and rewards are researchers first. So they spend most of their time and energy probing a snip of a field's cutting edge. In my view, the attributes needed to be a transformative undergraduate instructor are pretty orthogonal to that. It would seem that undergraduate education would be superior if there was a separate track for teaching faculty.

Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.

Answering ads rarely works for career changers because you have no experience in the job for which you're applying.