Today I'd like to invite you to join me for a brief thought experiment and metaphor.

Here's the question.

If I ask you to make a list of all the different types of hammers that you can think of.

How many hammers can you put on that list?

You're welcome if you're driving to take a moment and hit pause and think about this or if you are in front of a piece of paper I welcome you to take a moment and jot a few names down.

I'll wait. Now the number of hammers that you've put on your list will vary greatly depending on your job.

And the types of hammers that you've put on your list

will vary greatly depending on your occupation. My guess is if your job has nothing to do with your with construction or with using a hammer on a daily basis you probably

struggled to know the name of even a single kind of hammer and you just said well a

hammer you know the

the kind that I bang nails in the wall with but you might not know the

distinctions of that hammer and might not know what the type of hammer that you have in

the drawer at home is actually called. Notice a zero headline article a couple days ago called, here was the headline.

Home Depot panics over millennials, forced to host tutorials on using tape measures and hammering

nails. It was interesting just to demonstrate the lack of proficiency with

basic DIY and home construction tasks that many young men and women have.

Very different perhaps than past generations.

So if you are one of a young person who doesn't have a job related to swinging a hammer, you probably

struggled to come up with the name of the hammer you're picturing in your head.

But if I gave you some time and you did this experiment, you could probably at least come

up with something like a sledge

hammer.

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