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"We live
today in a crisis era, and you will grow up and start your life, family
and career in a Crisis or Founding season. The good news is that a
Crisis Season is always followed by spring!
"The
bad news, which is also the biggest challenge in all of this, is that
when the Crisis comes, almost everyone over thirty years of age is
totally immersed in the rules, conventions and patterns for success in
the last phase. This means that even though the economic boom
times and long periods of peace are apparently over for a time, most
people keep making choices that reflect what used to work--even though now all the rules have changed.
"They make a lot of ineffective choices, because they don't realize
that the rules have changed. For example, parents educated in the 2nd
and 3rd seasons often think that their kids should see education as job
training. For 4th and 1st seasons, however, that is a big mistake. In
these seasons, teens need to be prepared for entrepreneurship and
initiative much more than job-specific skills. There are many other
differences between seasons."
~Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens, p. 114-115 [this passage goes on to enumerate the rules for success in the 4 seasons of societal cycles]
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