Living Your Life's Purpose | Frederick Marx | Talks at Google
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Channel: Talks at Google · 2015 · News & Politics
Frederick Marx, Academy and Emmy nominated filmmaker most known for HOOP DREAMS and the series BOYS TO MEN?, presents a 60 minute talk using his latest short films on why all teens require and deserve initiation and mentorship. Everyone knows the African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child.” But few know Michael Meade’s apt inversion: “It takes the struggles of youth to raise a village.” Our functioning as a community can best be measured by how effective we are in offering young people meaningful rites of passage into adulthood – effective challenges that can positively define them as newly emergent adults. It’s our job as elders to hold and contain the energy of young people during their time of furious transition. The implications of not doing so already surround us in the myriad forms of dysfunctional teen behavior and in "adults" who live out their lives as suspended adolescents, controlled by their appetites and fears. What can we do to repair this breech in the generational chain? A long-time student of these issues, Frederick Marx has some inspiring ideas.
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