What Kind of
Work Is Worth Doing?
The world is changing quickly. The old promise of study hard, get a degree, find a job is no longer enough to help a young person understand their future.
I want to create spaces where young people can step away from the pressure to choose a career and begin asking deeper questions.
What am I curious about?
What problems matter to me?
What can I learn to do well?
And how might I contribute?
Learning to See.
Learning to Make.
Learning to Contribute.
The World Is Your Classroom
Learning does not have to begin with a textbook. It can begin with a broken bicycle, a crowded street, a disappearing craft, a polluted river, a badly designed product, a village enterprise, a piece of software or simply a question that refuses to go away.
The Problem Solvers Circle invites young people to look closely at the world around them, investigate what they notice, and learn by trying to make things better.
What We Explore
Eight paths of learning for young people who want to understand, create and contribute.
Learning by Doing
The Problem Solvers Circle is built around questions, projects and real-world observation.
This is learning that leaves the classroom and enters the world.
What You Will
Develop
The purpose is not to give young people another list of subjects to study. It is to help them gradually develop ways of thinking and working.
Learn to Observe
Notice what others may overlook.
Learn to Question
Become comfortable asking difficult and unfamiliar questions.
Learn to Investigate
Move beyond assumptions and find out how things actually work.
Learn to Make
Turn ideas into something tangible.
Learn to Collaborate
Learn from people with different perspectives and abilities.
Learn to Persist
Stay with a difficult problem long enough to understand it.
Learn to Reflect
Look back at your own thinking and improve it.
You Don't Have to Know Your Future Yet
You may not know whether you want to become an engineer, designer, entrepreneur, researcher, filmmaker, craftsperson, scientist, teacher or something that does not yet have a name.
That is okay.
You don't have to decide your entire future before you begin exploring it. Start by paying attention. Find something that interests you. Find something that bothers you. Find something you want to understand.
Follow the question.
