Changing the World…?

02 August 2013

Freyr:

Could "changing the world" be a contender the most trite, overused expression of 2013? Recent grads seem to have adopted it en masse as their personal tagline. It's a nice sentiment, but it hard not to roll your eyes when every 23 year old applies it to his mobile phone app with no users that he threw together in a couple weeks.

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Besides, I'm not even sure it's a healthy sentiment for most people. If your focus is as broad as "changing the world," you're probably setting yourself up to feel like a failure.

(via Wolf's Little Store)