The+Right+Stuff

Sarvie: 1st third Amanda: 2nd third Laura: 3rd third

Many parents are worried that their children may not be more successful than them in the future because of the troubles they will be facing in the future, like outsourcing. In __The World is Flat__, Friedman stated 4 important points that will guarantee your child's success in the business life.
 * 1st section:**

1. First, it is important to develop the ability to "learn how to learn." In other words, you must be open to learning new things all the time, even if you have to relearn something new frequently. This ability will be vital in the future because people are always coming up with new, faster, and better ways of finishing a task. Acquiring this power will keep you up-to-date to the best technology.

2. Second, though knowledge is crucial to one's career, passion and curiosity can outshine it. Friedman gave an equation to demonstrate this: CQ + PQ > IQ. He also said "curious, passionate kids are self-educators and self-motivators." He means that if they have the drive to reach their goal, they will do anything to get there as quickly as possible.

3. It is obvious that, in order to be successful in the near future, you must be compatible with other people. Unlike the other two points, there are special courses that teach how to be good with people. Mastering this skill is advantageous when you are in direct contact with your customers because that personalized connection will be the one factor that may prevent them from picking another option that costs less and may be overseas.

4.It's in the second section

To avoid being an untouchable, developing right-brain skills is a necessity. Right brain skills include forging relationships instead of performing transactions, tackling new challenges instead of solving recurrent ones, and looking at the big picture rather than one part of it.
 * 2nd Section**:

Quote: "Now that foreigners can do left-brain work cheaper, we in the US must do right-brain work better" (pg 308).

The abilities that are becoming more marketable are the ones that arise from intrinsic motivation - there is a connection between the types of jobs that people love doing and the things that provide economic advantage.

Education systems must be reworked to adapt to a flat world. Georgia Institute of Technology began to look for students who were not only good academically in science and math, but also for those who were creative and played musical instruments, sang in chorus, or played on a team. With these new "types" of students, Georgia Tech is producing new kinds of graduates that are not only qualified to do engineering work but also think outside the engineering box. Schools must adapt to the flat world and equip their students with tools needed to succeed in a horizontal collaboration during the education process.


 * 3rd Section:**

How well suited is America generally, in this flattening world, to creating these jobs and paving these pathways?

In theory, all it takes to produce jobs and educate the sorts of people who thrive in a flat world.

-this is a huge asset at a time when constant change is required to stay competitive
 * we have a relatively flexible deregulated free-market economy

In order to be competitive we need to: -because people know what ground they are standing on all the time and can count on a certain framework of rules and principles to govern their lives
 * stay as open and flexible as possible
 * deliver services globally
 * keep university system at high standards for students
 * we have 4,000 colleges/universities in the U.S. (the rest of the world as 7,788)
 * we have the best-regulated and most efficient capital markets in the world for taking new ideas and turning them into products and services
 * continue security and regulation of our capital markets
 * quality of American intellectual protection needs to be strengthened
 * be a high-trust country

We are the world’s largest domestic consumer market, which means a steady flow of jobs for Americans

There is nothing about the flat world that Americans cannot handle, as long as we educate our young people about the flattening. So are we doing that? (No...discussed in next two chapters)