The stronghold of stability and tradition has been bombarded into pieces by the artillery of innovation this holiday season as smart phones do it all. To quote from the business+money section of the Star Tribune (12-15-2013) as to the reason why digital camera sales are beginning to collapse: "The ubiquitous smartsphone--a combination mobile phone, personal computer, data storage unit and camera, small enough to fit in a pocket."
Changes are now no longer only quantitative--they are significant and qualitative. To protect yourself and your future employability, you must very quick, retrainable and adaptable.
This psychic versatility needs to housed in a worldview that is under girded by the right set of values. Mavellonialism is the value system best able to equip Millennials to thrive for the rest of this century. The Mavellonialist is logical. A person of logic will not resist change for illogical reasons like custom, pride, stubbornness or to make a point. The Mavellonialist is an incessant brilliant tinkerer--who better prepared to live in the world of smartphones.
The Mavellonialist is inured with a will of iron, and such a personality of force enables to owner of this will to weather almost anything, and discard any threat of future shock, easily dismissed.
The Mavellonialist is a loner-individualist, and such an intellectual type, sees the world without group-fostered and group-perpetuated illusions that cloud one's ken. Groupists are hidebound, and their deadly conservatism makes them unfit to survive in the world of smartphones.
The Mavellonialist sees what is coming, and what can be done to combat the onslaught, and to take ownership of the challenging, bewildering transition.
The decade of the smartphone makes me believe that it is time to adopt a system of values that allow the Millennials to survive and come out on top. Mavellonialism should be their set of values.
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