Careers Get Off the Conveyor Belt: The Weekly Mentor

By Oliver DeMille

Therefore, I've said to anyone who would listen, let's help our young people get off the conveyor belt to engage a truly superb, world-class, Jefferson-level education.

A lot of people have listened.

I get notes every day from people thanking us for teaching about Leadership Education and the idea that all education should really be great education.

They share amazing stories of how TJEd has blessed their families, kids, marriages and lives.

I'm always so humbled when I read these notes, because even though they thank us I realize that their successes are mostly the result of their own work and courage to aim for something better.

Lately I'm starting to get the same kind of notes from people who have turned from the corporate grind to an entrepreneurial lifestyle.

This is a little surprising, because while the benefits of truly great education can show up in a few weeks or even days, the shift to entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship can take a lot longer to bear fruit.

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For more ideas on building an entrepreneurial mindset and a business of your own, see The Coming Aristocracy and The Center for Social Leadership.

Oliver DeMille is a co-founder of the Center for Social Leadership, and a co-creator of TJEd.

He is the author of A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the 21st Century, The Coming Aristocracy: Education & the Future of Freedom, and FreedomShift: 3 Choices to Reclaim America's Destiny.

Oliver is dedicated to promoting freedom through leadership education. He and his wife Rachel are raising their eight children in Cedar City, Utah.