The people that are deeply in tension in the space don't see that outside or with the innovative idea that's going to grow in scale.

So my job is to come up with the ideas, build the kind of vehicle, and then get the right people on that bus that can actually execute on the educational side.

Welcome to the Art of Charm, I'm Jordan Harbinger.

On this episode we're talking with my friend Adam Braun. He's the founder of Pencils of Promise and a new organization called Mission U which promises to reform education, essentially rebooting the whole thing.

Why the educational system in the US is failing students, one of our topics today, will also discuss why students are even less prepared for careers now than ever before, and will discover new methods and tracks of study that are a lot more future proof.

Of course I put that in air quotes and last but not least, how to think like an executive even and especially if it's your first year on the job. All the supplies really really well no matter where you are in your career frankly. Now let's hear from Adam Braun.

By the way I've heard your name mispronounced a lot. It's Braun right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. The one the people mispronounced a lot is when they say pencils for promise. It just like comes out of mouth rather than pencils of promise.

That's just lazy. When I went to law school, I went to university Michigan law school, decent law school. A lot of people got really good jobs out of there, including me, not necessarily because we deserve them, but because people were recruiting from those schools.

And I remember going through mock interviews where one of them was, okay sign up and wait and line outside the career counselors office and we'll do a mock interview and I showed up and there were three people ahead of me and they went in, did their mock interview and I went and got a snack and when I came back I thought, oh that was so fast.

They must have multiple people in there doing these mock interviews. I wonder how they do that in this small room. And then one woman came out and goes, are you Jordan? You're next? Okay. And then in the hallway standing up near the door, you know, the career counselor doors here and this woman standing there and she asks me three or four really easy softball questions like, why do you want to work here? What's interesting to you about our company and then goes, you're fine. This is going to be easy for you because that wasn't nervous or freaking out. And I thought, I think we should probably spend a little more time on this.

Yeah, you know, we're competing against Harvard Columbia and all these other big law schools not to mention everybody else from the University of Michigan. Yeah.

Are they really going to let me off this easy during the reason the answer was absolutely not. And I thought, have you ever hired anyone for a book? If so, I'll go work for you.

I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I want to know what I want to know. I

want to know what I want to know. I want to know whatCreateakhnoices don't necessarily want to know what we were looking for looking for looking for whatever we realized. I want to know what they were looking for looking for looking for what we realized and getting to know. 때문에. There weren't any enormous 읽ers at the beginning and there weren't any trouble Facebook, Adobe, Duck, like Warner News, but in Germany, there weren't enormous

I think it's a couple of things.

One is that the demands of 21st century companies are changing so rapidly today that they

look very different from what we needed before.

We had this series of revolutions.

One of them was the Industrial Revolution.

Then we had the knowledge and the workforce revolution that happened.

Now we're in the midst of an innovation revolution in which you have computers and robots and AI

and all these other things that are emerging really quickly.

...