http://www.ted.com Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. At TEDxEdmonton, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish — as kids and as adults. Filmed in Edmonton, Canada.
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June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
@majinspy No, he …
@majinspy No, he found a job for another kid, took the responsibility of having to collect payment away from his employee (which I’m sure the employee was grateful for) and for compensation for his time he collected the boy’s tips. Most people don’t like collections. Furthermore, he was most likely not being paid for his time while collecting these bills. Are you saying he should have done the work for the kid for free? If so, I’d love to hire you.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Atlas Shrugged by …
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is a good book about entrepreneurs
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Teach kids to put a …
Teach kids to put a dollar sign on absolutely everything in the world?
Right guy.
ADD is clearly this least of this guys psychological disorders. It didn’t seem like this guy had any ideas outside of buy low sell high and negotiate everything as hard you can in your best individual financial interest, down to the penny. And neither of those is very original, screw this guy, find actually intelligent speakers who come up with real new ideas please.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
I have ADD……. …
I have ADD…….well I guess I’m the future entrepreneur
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
@shootthedevil
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@shootthedevil
well his own history, there are many of us sharing the same points he gone through.
didn’t u think about the percentage of who failed in classes or dropped the school. how many of them get the support/opportunity to initiate a successful life?
look I’m not saying being a “entrepreneur” is the only way out, it’s not a bad one ether.
I think!
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
This is really bad. …
This is really bad. He just listed his own history. He is not a good speaker too.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
entrepreneurs get …
entrepreneurs get villified? cmon…
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
@acohen797 Keep it …
@acohen797 Keep it up i like your thinking
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
A+, I love it. My …
A+, I love it. My 2.5 year old son and my wife had a conversation the other day.
“Mommy, I want a Bulgy” (A bus from the Tomas the Tank Engine series)
“Sorry Cael, not right now.”
“You buy me a bulgy?”
“No Cael, Mommy does not have the money.”
“Oh, Cael sell cupcakes?” This is him asking to go to a festival, set up a station and sell cupcakes that he helped to make and decorate. Which would be the way he bought his last 3 engines.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
@footloosebowler so …
@footloosebowler so that leaves the 80% of the population fighting over a tiny little 20% slice of the pie of wealth and resources. There’s the market system for you. Competition permeates all aspects of our society and social interaction, and it leaves each person feeling isolated from the other, and not having the ability to trust their fellow man.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
@footloosebowler …
@footloosebowler and don’t get me wrong, im definitely not calling contributing to society prostitution, but working for the ultimate benefit of a private company instead of society or the community as a whole. instead, you have a bunch of people working to create huge wealth for a few CEO’s to live like kings while the rest only get enough to survive. are you aware of the current wealth distribution statistics? the richest top 1% owns 40% of the wealth and the top 20% owns 80% of the wealth!
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
@footloosebowler i …
@footloosebowler i dont see employment really as cooperation. i see it closer to prostitution. sure there is a small aspect of cooperation, but ultimately there is a large conflict of interest. the employee is constantly seeking more wages, while the employer is constantly seeking to reduce costs in order to seek profits. I think there’s better ways to breed competence than competition. I would say most laziness is a result of people seeing life as pointless and unfulfilling. most don’t see that
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
I always did great …
I always did great in school but I always hated it, because it wasn’t what I wanted to learn it wasn’t about solving problems taking charge creating new ideas, it was about learning old ideas and then showing the teacher that you remember those old ideas. My son is very bright but hates school too, school has to incorporates new ways of teaching, I love what this man says about fostering independance in our children, my son loved this video.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
@SurferRosa79 You …
@SurferRosa79 You idiot.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
@yungmastrchrysjin …
@yungmastrchrysjin
I see employment in a market economy as cooperation. One person agrees to work for another in exchange for payment. 90% of human existence was miserable, with a life expectancy less than 35. Gift economy can work for things that people are willing to give, but I would not be willing to sacrifice my paycheck for people who don’t work.
Competition breeds competence. Why should all my hard work go toward gifting people who don’t give a about contributing?
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
@RPFS2008 Good MC …
@RPFS2008 Good MC tests will present the 4 toughest options to choose from. In that sense, they emulate life. If your arguing that in life there may be more than 4 to choose from, even if the rest are easy to rule out, then MC may slightly decrease the degree of understanding needed per question. However, over a large number of trials, this decrease is nullified since the one with the most knowledge is going to get the most questions right.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
What’s A …
What’s A Entrepreneur?
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
lifelong junk …
lifelong junk peddler. cool.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
@footloosebowler I …
@footloosebowler I really don’t see it that way at all. I wouldn’t say its good or necessarily natural either. Maybe you say that because you think its always been that way. But thats not the case. 90% of human existence has been hunter gatherer societies that we largely egalitarian and operated mostly off of gift economies. Look up gift economy on wiki. And acknowledge that capitalism is based in competition, and consider how things might work in a new system based in cooperation.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
@yungmastrchrysjin …
@yungmastrchrysjin
So when you go to work, you don’t do it for the money?
Working for profit is a good and natural thing.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
A lawyer or a …
A lawyer or a doctor who hasn’t learned enterpreneurship early on will still be practicing their craft for a living, well past their sixties. Why? Because they are the business. If they haven’t learned how to handle money, esp. the “earn more than you spend” part, then the “how do you that part”—scamming you follows.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Entrepreneurs …
Entrepreneurs aren’t as glory as many claim. It’s hard and very brutal. When you lose, you lose it all. My father is an entrepreneur. He made it lots of money at one point in his life but now he hardly makes enough to break even. But what I find interesting is that all entrepreneurs have a tone, like they all preach in the same way. I like how he makes his children tell a story, I actually think that is quite clever in inspiring creativity. All the best to him and his children.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
I will bookmark …
I will bookmark this talk, then show the end animation to my son just before his 12th birthday. Then show him the rest of it.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
I like that he …
I like that he brushed over the detail that everyone hated him in school, wouldn’t want to draw too much attention to the fact that his success came, quite blatantly, at the expense of others or that he didn’t know where they were going to find good employees if they taught them all that working sucks and they shouldn’t want a fixed wage.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
@Durgles I’m not …
@Durgles I’m not calling the guy lazy or entrepreneurs in general lazy. My father started his own business after working the night shift driving a forklift. At no point did he try to figure out how to pay employees less. In fact, he gave his office manager a profit sharing program. Yet, if you expect me to smile and be happy at the idea of trying to maximize profit by seeing what you can get away with in regards to your employees then…well it just aint gonna happen.