J-B's Informed Opinion

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.