You're listening to the Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.

I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton.

There's a new Gallup pool that came out very recently, and it says that U.S. worker thriving declines as job market pessimism grows.

I'm going to dig into this Gallupol and break it apart and talk about the missed opportunity that Americans are basically letting go right before their very eyes.

And I get that times are tough for a lot of people.

I really get that.

I understand that.

I empathize with that.

But I really think that there's a certain shift in our culture.

And that people are getting a little bit exasperated.

And the discouragement levels are definitely creeping up and so I want to talk about how we guard against that and how we seize

opportunity because that's something that we're not really taught how to do we're still being

taught our young people are being taught that going to college is the only

way, that you go to college, find the best college, don't worry about the debt, it'll all

work itself out, don't even think about the numbers, don't crunch the numbers, and life is going to go on. I just recently

had my daughter to a doctor, and she's about to turn 16, and he was talking to her about her

future, and he said about college, And he's like, colleges are really

expensive. And though he was telling her that she ought to find an affordable college, he's like,

well, let's say that you get $5,000 in scholarships. What do you do for the rest of the money?

And my daughter was like,

it's kind of that awkward thing.

Like, okay, what kind of answer is he looking for?

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