Aaron Rasmussen, founder of MasterClass, joined me and Jean to share thoughts on how middle and high schoolers can find their career path. His advice? Students should ask questions, create things, and look for the themes in what interest them.
Michael Horn: If you’ve ever taken a course or even watched a video on MasterClass, then you know it's super engaging and features incredible individuals at the top of their fields in so many varied careers. And that's why I'm so excited that we're going to the source behind the creation of MasterClass itself for this episode. And that's to one of the founders, Aaron Rasmussen. Aaron's a serial entrepreneur and also founded Outlier.org.
Jean Eddy: We're thrilled to have you, Aaron. And we have this question for you. What career advice would you share with middle or high schoolers?
Aaron Rasmussen: My career advice, if I were in middle school, is to keep doing interesting things, even if you don't know what it is you want to do. I think I still don't know what I want to do in life, but I found that if I keep going towards what I'm interested in and actually do them, produce things. You don't have to show anyone. You can show your friends if you want. You'll find out that when you look backwards, they all kind of revolve around the same thing. And maybe that's the career you should be in.
Secondly, stay flexible and stay curious. If somebody offers to tell you a little bit about what they do, listen to them. Now go pay attention to if somebody cuts your hair at the hairdresser, ask them about it. It's going to be fascinating because you're going to figure out what do you like? What do you not like? What do you go towards? And don't question it. Just go towards it.
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