For Gen Z, navigating today’s job market can feel daunting—especially as artificial intelligence threatens to upend the very idea of work. But according to Melinda French Gates, that uncertainty is exactly where growth begins.
The billionaire philanthropist said that learning to embrace transitions is the key to personal and professional development.
“If we pause and if we give ourselves time to learn, we can actually grow tremendously during those transitions, whether they’re easy or whether they’re hard,” she said on Bloomberg’s Leaders with Francine Lacqua podcast.
And for new graduates in particular, the 61-year-old said there’s one question that cuts to the heart of it:
“I even tell university graduates these days, you think the transition is when you go through graduation? No, it’s when you wake up the next day and you’re saying, ‘Am I really on the way to where I want to go?’”
