Cameron Herold: Let’s raise kids to be entrepreneurs
Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. At TEDxEdmonton, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish — as kids and as adults. Filmed in Edmonton, Canada.
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Yay for this talk! I AM an entrepreneur and it’s the ONLY way to live!
@Carter Gomez No you don’t
How do you start on your journey to become an entrepreneur? I’m on the way there but do you need a business degree to start?
I love this! I hope every parent with a child who has ADD or ADHD watches this transformative video.
Great talk! More schools need to start encouraging children to be creative, innovative and teach entrepreneurial skills in classes. Especially when children are older and have become focused primarily on the academics; they often stop thinking outside of the box. Parents and teachers should not only be nurturing entrepreneurial skills in children but continue to do so for young adults. It’s never too early or too late to start. Regardless of whether they become entrepreneurs in the future, entrepreneurial skills are life skills that every independent child and adult should have. With the growth of technology, this can become more easily accessible and engaging for anyone willing to take the first step.
The term “thinking outside the box” is used by people who don’t. What an old cliche.
I love it! It’s like reliving my childhood listening to you Cameron!
Thank you for the inspiration 🙂 Reminding me what I’m really intended to do <3
We teach parents to educate their children to be entrepreneurs. It worked for my family and many others.
❤🙏 loved this talk. Paints a beautiful picture of an entrepreneur life and lifestyle. Came here by recommendation of Michael Ellsberg.
His message brought back fond memories of my childhood. In 1955 I was earning more money than my Father (per hour)
Great talk and such a refreshing view on entrepreneurship and raising children.
Cameron Herrold has an inspiring vision on how to make kids into entrepreneurs.
I find it quite funny that he so candidly relates ripping from the poor to rip off the rich to changing the world.
That’s great, we should teach our kids to be manipulative business people.
This is awesome and I totally agree with this. Thank you for sharing.
Cameron does a great job exploiting the opportunities available outside of the “traditional” good paying jobs our educational system funnels us into. Awareness of these opportunities available through entrepreneurism, followed by support from parents is a powerful gift to kids!
Cameron does a great job exploiting the opportunities available outside of the “traditional” good paying jobs our educational system funnels us into. Awareness of these opportunities available through entrepreneurism, followed by support from parents is a powerful gift to kids!
This sort of video reminds me that I spend too much time watching YouTube. 🙂
He’s right of course. Too much of the message of education is to do what you’re told, and rarely do we encourage kids to be the ones doing the telling.
love it! great job Cameron!
This is one of the best TED talks I’ve seen in a while. He reminds me of Mark Kohler with his kids
Really loved the speech! Great suggestions on how to raise kids as innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs. Do you have any good suggestion specifically for introverted kids?
I’ve watched this video and it still give me chills and feelings of hope and feeling understood! Thank you Thank you Thank you!!
I really enjoyed this talk and all the tips in helping raise entrepreneurs and becoming one ourself! Will definately use these tips with my future children.
This is a wonderful presentation Cameron, My school was all about the number of Doctors and Architect undergrads it produced. I never fitted in, it was only when I reached 50 that I was able to let go a lot of the baggage and be who I am, an artist. It is only now that in my 56th year that I am becoming the entrepreneur that is within me.
Thanks for this insightful talk, I am going to go against the populace and steer my son back onto the path that is natural for him.
Johnnie Lawson