05/21/2026
Stop asking teenagers what they want to do with their life.
They don’t know. They’re not supposed to. The brain that makes those decisions isn’t even finished forming yet.
What they do need? Goals. And smaller goals inside those goals.
That was the message Wilfred Webster brought to our boys’ conference at Linklaters. Former teacher. Runner-up on The Traitors. BAFTA winner. The kind of CV that doesn’t come from a five-year plan - it comes from saying yes, setting a goal, and figuring out the next small step.
The pressure to “know what you want to do” is one of the heaviest things we put on young shoulders. And it’s the wrong question.
The right question is: what’s one thing you’re going to do this week that moves you in a direction worth moving?
Listen to what Wilfred told the boys. It’s the permission slip a lot of us wish we’d been given.
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