Ricky Blair: Preparing for Life

What can be done?

Private company leadership needs to increase the number of entry-level jobs based on a skills assessment, vs. certification (see above: fetishization of elite colleges). Develop relationships with local public institutions, including two-year schools, that charge modest tuition: That's where you'll find those deemed unremarkable with the potential to become remarkable determine their path.

“University leadership and faculty should aim to help young people find their greatness. Part of that charge is to instill grit, perspective, a sense of curiosity/innovation, citizenship, and a comity of man. They should lead by example.” - Scott Galloway

CHOOSING WHERE YOU WANT TO GO IS THE KEY with a king size serving of INDOMITABLE DETERMINATION. In other words – NO MATTER WHAT HITS YOU, THE CHARACTERISTIC THAT DRIVES YOU TO GET UP AND KEEP GOING is what champions are made of.

The magic formula is: vision, determination, and passion.

This I believe is what Platform Seven is about – and Ricky Blair doesn’t profess to be a guru but yes, perhaps your mentor. He will have your back as you figure out your path with an education program focused on real-world needs and demands. Can Platform Seven/aka Ricky Blair be said to be the secret sauce? To have found his calling as a mentor? The entrepreneurial road is unique but Ricky has already traversed and succeeded at it when truly few are fortunate to have anyone be part of that open road supported by altruistic support. It’s very human to need to be connected as we saw with COVID. A lot of young people get lost as they disconnect from the ‘nest’ and suddenly find themselves navigating, “Who am I, where am I going and what is it all for?” At seventeen or eighteen. The suicide rates and dropout rates of college kids show just how insurmountable that can feel and be. Top that off with a mountain of debt to last you well into adulthood and for which you don’t even know if you’ll be successful enough to repay.

It’s literally a killer. 

So Ricky… let’s start with your story, because that inspired the rest leading up to where we are, and you are, with this young, innovative and disruptive ‘educational’ career/life path model.

Platform Seven says, “We are the alternative and will give you an education for the real world.”