J-B's Informed Opinion: Recent Episodes
Joe-Brown
The podcast is my informed opinion, based on my critical thinking about issues of interest to me, given in ten minutes or less.
Joe-Brown's informed opinion is that young people need help and support as they make the transition to their next environment and that they need to understand the terms under which the help is offered before they accept it.
Joe-Brown's informed opinion is that high school grads, who need more time to choose their next environment, may find opportunities in training programs as well as in volunteering in which to gain the additional time that they need in order to choose their next environment.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that after all of the celebration, of having completed high school, graduates are sometimes stuck deciding what they will do next and, as they continue to live at home, being supported by their parents, their situation becomes untenable, as a great deal of stress is generated.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school graduates have earned the right to celebrate their successful completion of twelve years of schooling before engaging their chosen next environment.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that most young people are developing habits that enable them to solve their problems in a rational way.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that we need to remember how difficult it is to make decisions about how we live our life and that the way we live our life will help determine how our children adapt to their environment of which we are a huge part.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must begin to use all the resources available to them, in their environment, as they contemplate solutions to their problems.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people have a will honed skillset that they can and should use to solve the problems that they encounter.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that now that they have been graduated from high school, young people will be expected to handle their emotional responses to the problems that will inevitably arise in their lives, on their own.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people who have just graduated from high school have a lot to consider as they choose the next environment that they will engage and to which they will adapt.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school graduates have come to a fork in their pathway and they must choose, for the first time in their life, which environment in which to immerse themself.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that new high grads have about six years in which to continue to hone their hard and, especially, their soft skills before they will be expected to have become adults.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people need to accept the idea that their future is now in their own hands; they must become self-motivated in order to get to where they want to go in life.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that recent high school graduates are now eligible to seek a government job without having a four-year college degree and that they should take advantage of this opportunity by mastering new hard skills and assessing their well-honed soft skillset.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school graduates are faced with another choice as to how to expand their environment: attend college, don’t attend college, or enter an apprenticeship program.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that when high school graduates have the choice of environment, in which they will engage, they should consider choosing one that will demand more of them rather than less.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must be reminded that they have mastered an abundance of hard and soft skills that have enabled them and will continue to enable them to adapt to the environment in which they find themselves.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people need to be reminded that the skillset they mastered during their first six years will persist as they follow their chosen pathway through their life-arc and that this skillset will enable them to adapt to their ever-changing environment as their life-arc continues to unfold before them.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must understand that since they have successfully traversed their chosen pathway this far, that they already have the skills required to get them wherever it is that they want to go.
Joe-Brown’s infoemed opinion is that young people need to come to grips with the fact that the life-arc unfolding before them is their own; they need to get a grip and start traversing their chosen pathway into their life with a dream to fulfill and a goal to achieve.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must solve the extremely hard problem of where they’re going in life as they make the leap from adolescence to adulthood.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people, not only to survive in their environment but to thrive in it, must become aware of the abundance of soft skills that they have mastered during their high school years.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must understand the environment in which they currently find themselves in order to figure out where they are; where they fit and once they figure that out, they will have a better chance of figuring out where they’re going.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must use all of the skills that they have mastered over the years in order to successfully make the transition from childhood to adulthood.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people need to understand where they are and how they fit in their current environment in order to figure out where they want to go and how to get there.
J-B’s informed opinion is that young people have the upper hand, in the current work environment’ if they are willing to be trained in order to fill just one of the multitude of jobs that remain unfilled.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people should dream dreams that are big enough to motivate them to set and achieve goals for themselves as they continue to follow their chosen pathway into their future life.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people remember how resilient that are in the face of disappointments that they may encounter as they follow their chosen pathway through their life-arc.
Joe-Brown’s Informed Opinion is that young people should take advantage of holiday gatherings by asking family members and friends to tell their stories. He suggests that in hearing these stories, young people may become inspired to modify the pathway they are currently following and perhaps start out in a new direction.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people, especially recent high school graduates, need to figure out what’s next for them. They need to determine where they want to go in their life. They need to dream big dreams, set goals for themselves, figure out where they’re headed and get going.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must at times reflect upon the story of how they have become the people they are. He suggests that in an ever changing environment, one’s own story is a constant that can be relied upon.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that it is important for young people to know and be able to tell their own story and they will not know their whole story until they consider the relationship that they have with their siblings.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people should know and understand their parents’ dispositions in order that they understand their own disposition, their own personality, and are better able to know and articulate their own story.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that annoying as it may be to young people, it is beneficial to them that they know and can articulate their own story to protect themselves from being abused and taken advantage of by others telling their story, but knowing their own story will provide them some insight and clarity about who they are.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must know their own story in order that they gain insight into who they are and how they came to be who they are.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people will gain the power to control how others perceive them when they are able to know and articulate their own story and that no one else should be allowed to tell their story for them.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people have achieved value, as they traverse their life-arc, and not knowing their own story, puts that value at risk, by allowing their peers, with whom they must compete, the opportunity to tell their story for them; a story that may be a total fiction.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must be very cautious as they attempt to learn their own story. He suggests that there may be good reasons why they don’t know their own story. He also suggests that they are resilient enough to deal with any adversity that they may encounter as they learn their story.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that it’s important for young people to get to knowing their own story by asking themselves questions about themselves and answering them as honestly as they can.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must be very clear about who they are; they must know and be able to articulate their own story.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must pay attention to the way that opportunities appear before them as our nation prepares to invest trillions of dollars into re-building itself; they must be prepared to take advantage of said opportunities as they arise.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people might consider using the skills that they have mastered to mitigate the impact of this latest schism; the divide between those who have been vaccinated and those who have not been vaccinated. He encourages young people to deal with, rather than ignore or dismiss, folks who are on the other side of the divide from them.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must continue to follow their chosen pathway through their life-arc, making plans and setting goals, even as they adapt to the stuff that may un-expectantly come their way.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that although young people may find living through their life-arc to be very difficult, they must hold on to the dream that is motivating them to follow their chosen pathway. He suggests that they might find themselves facing impediments to their progress, but they must continue along their chosen pathway as long as their life-arc continues to unfold before them.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must prepare themselves to handle any impediment that they may encounter as they follow their chosen pathway through their life-arc. The skill that they will need most immediately, upon completing the preparation phase of their life-arc, will be the ability to set goals for themselves.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people can master life-skills that they can use to achieve many of the goals that they set for themselves as they traverse their chosen pathway through their life-arc during the preparation phase.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people who have recently graduated from high school have reached a significant milestone on their life-arc and should be congratulated for such achievement. They should take some time to contemplate what their next milestone on their chosen pathway will be.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people have come through the year-of-the-virus as changed people, as have we all. He suggests that they use some time this summer to learn about who they have become.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students must understand the nature of their life-arc and take responsibility for how they are living through it. They must continue to strengthen their body, mind, and spirit during, this, the preparation phase of their life-arc in order to fully embrace their future life.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people need to take advantage of being back in school by doing whatever they can to get into shape around their education. He informs them that they have many skills left to master in this their third skills development cycle3.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school aged people need to become self-aware enough to be able to know and tell their own story. He suggests that if people are able to know and tell their story, they are freed from the stories that others tell about them and then they can dream about how their story will unfold.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school aged people should know their own story. They should know and be able to tell the story of how they became and why they are the persons that they are now.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people, who are now eligible to be vaccinated, get vaccinated. He also thinks that this virus, as a roadblock on their chosen pathway into their future life, has obscured many other roadblocks that they will encounter. Having a big dream that they want to achieve will help.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that the tension that is sometimes created between high school students and their parents is a good thing. The tension is an indication that the student has become capable enough to choose his or her own pathway into a future life; the life of which their dream is made.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that our high school students need to take stock of the opportunity that they have to achieve their dreams in contrast to the young people waiting at our southern border for an opportunity to achieve theirs.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school aged people have true grit; they can find a way to achieve goals despite the tremendous block, to their chosen pathway, that this virus represents. He suggests that dreaming big, about acquiring things, becomes the blueprint for dreaming big about who they will become and what they will do with their life.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people must take some time to form their own opinions about the most recent mass shootings. He suggests that the shooters may have had dreams that they believed to be unachievable. He suggests that young people should dream big dreams and get as much help as they can as they strive to achieve those dreams.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people take time to reflect upon the life that they remember living before being at war with this virus. They should not let this virus beat them down, but, instead they need to dream big about their future life and follow an adjusted pathway, around this virus, to achieve their big dream.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that if high school students hunger for life as they once knew it, they should let that dream go and form a new one. When dreams become as intense as hunger, then perhaps the dream of a future life will be motivation for action to be taken in the present one.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students might reflect upon what their motivation is to continue following a pathway through their life-arc. Are they animated by the external motivation of wanting and needing to please their parents or are they motivated by a dream that they want and need to achieve?
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students need to make every effort possible in order to strengthen their body, mind, and spirit. He suggests that it is especially important that students master the skills necessary to strengthen their mind.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students need to focus on the incident that occurred at the Capitol and learn from it. He encourages students to contrast the behaviors of the two young women who recently attained national prominence, think about the contrast critically and then apply what they discover to their own lives.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high students must understand the power of nature as exemplified by this virus. He also present students an opportunity to contrast the pathways and skills development of two young woman for analysis.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students need to take in the goings-on in their environment (society), understand what’s going on, learn from what’s going on and master the soft skills they will need in order for them to adapt to their ever-changing society as it unfolds.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students need to think critically about what they witnessed as a protest march turned into a riot at our Capitol last week. They should use this preparation phase of their life-arc to develop skills that would allow them to adapt to our society in order that they prosper instead of riot, in order to feel whole.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students should be reminded of how much they had grown-up. He would encourage them to remember what they had come through this far in their life and that they have the skills and experience to respond to their current environment successfully.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students need to become aware of the real world results that can be achieved as a result of their efforts in school. He tells the story of one of their peers who solved a real world problem by using the hard and soft skills acquired from his mastery of algebra.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students need to take some time to reflect upon all the skills that they mastered by the time they were six-years-old and how they achieved the mastery of those skills.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students be reminded of the abundance of skills, both hard skills and soft skills, that they had mastered by the time they were six-years-old; skills that would be with them for a lifetime.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high students must continue strengthening their body, mind, and spirit by using the soft skills that they mastered as children to deal with remote learning as they continue to strengthen their body, mind, and spirit by mastering their coursework.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that teenagers’ lives have been severely disrupted by this virus. Despite this turmoil, teens must somehow form a self-identity as they follow their pathway into their future life.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students should take in the reality of how life changing this virus has become for them. He encourages them to make the necessary adaptations to their chosen pathway into their future life and not give up on their dream.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students might take a moment, under the grip of this virus and during this unprecedented election season, to reflect upon their environmental observations so far this year.
Joe Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students can’t let this virus stop their progress. They must make a way to move forward, for themselves, even when there seems to be no way. They must recommit to their dreams of their life in the future and re-think their goals as they continue following their chosen pathway.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that 15, 16, 17, and 18-year-olds must realize that the pathway that they follow into their future life is pre-determined by their environment of origin. They must be motivated, by the dreams that they have of what their future life might be, to set goals and modify their current pathway in order to achieve these goals that they have set for themselves.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students have the skillset that they need in order to overcome the distractions that this virus has placed in the way as they attempt to follow their chosen pathway into their future life.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students must acknowledge that they have been severely affected by this virus. They must adjust to this new environment, modify their pathway into their future life and continue to follow their chosen pathway while trusting that their effort to do so is worth it.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that if high school students are not yet in some sort of school, they need to sound the alarm so that someone makes an effort to help them get back into school. Students should acknowledge that their lives have changed and they need to take time to re-assess their goals for their future life in order to keep their motivation high.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students must recognize the pathway that they are currently following as they live through their life-arc. They must determine whether or not their current pathway will lead them into the future life that they wish to live. They must determine, for themselves, how they must modify their current pathway in order to have it lead to the life that they imagine themselves living.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that now is the time for all of us, especially high school students, to take stock of our lives. This virus has presented an historic event that has changed our lives forever. We must modify our individual pathway as we continue to traverse our life-arc.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students must understand that this virus represents a tremendous roadblock on their unique pathway into their future life. They must continue their job of mastering as many skills as they can even in the current environment.
oe-Brown’s informed opinion is that young people consider the course work they do in school as they might consider the physical exercises they do: the physical exercises builds one’s body as the course work builds one’s mind and spirit.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school aged young people need to give critical thought to the fact that someone takes care of them. They need to also consider that if they don’t master as many skills as they can, during this current skills development cycle, their ability to choose a pathway into their future life may be limited.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students need to be enabled to overcome the roadblocks that they run into as they follow their chosen pathway into their future. They must master critical thinking skills in order to successfully overcome these obstacles that would block their progress.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students are following unique pathways into their future that have been determined by their family and environment of origin. As they mature, students must begin to determine for themselves the direction in which their unique pathway will lead them.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students must begin to structure their time and effort in order to master the skill set that they need as they follow their chosen pathway into their future.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students need to focus on their future by following the pathways they have chosen for themselves. They can find support from their peers, once trust has been established. Students who read history will not only gain insight into the history of their ancestors but may also learn something about themselves.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that most high school students endure a great deal of stress as they made the transition from their first 10,000 hour skills development cycle environment (family) to their second 10,000 hour skills development cycle environment (school).
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students must understand where they fit in their environment. They need to be aware of the skill set they have already developed so that they might determine the skills they need to develop and master next.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students should become aware of the skills they have developed during the multiple 10,000 hour, 6-year long skills development cycles they have experienced in their lives.
Joe-Brown's informed opinion is that high school students need to be ready to welcome a mentor, if one appears, as they follow their chosen pathway to achieving their goal.
Joe-Brown's informed opinion is that high school students must seek out and connect with their peers at school in order to receive the help and support they need as they follow the pathway that leads them to their goal, even in the face of COVID-19.
Joe-Brown's informed opinion is that, in the time of COVID-19, people resist change. In order to strengthen our bodies and minds, we must embrace new habits. Join a gym to strengthen your body. Join school to strengthen your mind.
Joe-Brown's informed opinion is that high school students must learn how to depend on their “natural resources” of resilience, persistence, and grit in order to achieve the goals that they set for themselves even in the face of COVID-19.
Joe-Brown's informed opinion is that high school students are missing their high school environment. They must mourn this loss, adapt to the current situation, and continue to strengthen body, mind, and spirit, in order to prepare for the opportunities that will follow COVID-19.
Joe-Brown's informed opinion is that high school students must continue to prepare their bodies, minds, and spirits for the future. They will become stronger. They will turn their dreams into reality. They will become passionate about achieving their goals. They will choose pathways and identify a clear ways forward in spite of COVID-19.
Joe-Brown's informed opinion is that high school students must determine how they want to present themselves. The process of figuring out which presentation works best can still go on even in the midst of COVID-19.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students need to make up their minds to master their own environment, so that they are ready to step up when the world moves beyond COVID-19.
Joe-Brown’s informed opinion is that high school students strengthen their spirits through encounters with other people in the high school environment. This ability to encounter others has been disrupted by COVID-19.
Joe-Brown's informed opinion is that the job of the high school student is to prepare for their future. This vital preparation has been disrupted by COVID-19.