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YOU ARE A MILLENNIAL- if you were born between 1980-2000. Demographically, you're a larger generation than the "baby boomers". Because there are so many of you, the authorities have been using an effective, but primitive psychological tool called FEAR - to control you; "Danger!"..."Caution!"..."Do Not Cross!"..."Keep Out!"..."Stay behind the tape!"..."Shut up!"..."Move faster!" It's not easy to know who to believe or what to believe. Unless you aggressively seek out the truth, you won't control your destiny. Sherlock is sharing insights about money, college, the real world, statistics, trends, careers, and opportunities that are relevant to those under the age of 34. Life will be scary, confusing and even depressing if you blindly follow the same uninformed path as the other 80 million millennials of your generation. I KEEP SHERLOCK AS MY AVATAR because he looks at every situation with a critical eye. He's curious, cynical, and arrogant but he knows how to ask the right questions. That is a skill you must learn; to ask the right questions. When four of the top ten "most in demand jobs today" didn't even exist four years ago - how can you choose a college or even a career path without the very latest, accurate information? Sherlock gathers content from many reliable sources and brings them together here (mashup) for one single purpose; to help you make informed decisions about your future.

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Malcolm Gladwell speaks on Entrepenurship

http://www.inc.com/issie-lapowsky/idea-lab-malcolm-gladwell-what-entrepreneurs-can-learn.html?cid=rw0087

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When you look back at your career, do you see a distinct plan unfolding or a bunch of random connections, chance encounters, and detours?

After working for 25 years, and through trial and error, I finally realized something powerful. I understood and acknowledged that it wasn’t a random set of acts or events that produced the success and joy I have felt in my career.

What I learned in going through challenges, in encountering roadblocks and obstacles, is that I have to be true to myself. These six promises are commitments that I’ve made to myself and mindfully put into practice in every situation that I’ve been in. My advice, from someone who has been there, is to make these six promises and keep them:

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Ivy League Schools Are Overrated. Send Your Kids Elsewhere

William Deresiewicz: "It was only after 24 years in the Ivy League, a Ph.D. at Columbia, and ten years on the faculty at Yale that I started to think about what this system does to kids and how they can escape from it, what it does to our society and how we can dismantle it."

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Ask Altucher

James is a successful entrepreneur, investor, board member, and the writer of 11 books. He's started and sold several companies for eight figure exits, sits on the board of a billion revenue company, and he's written for The Financial Times, The New York Observer, and over a dozen popular websites for the past 15 years. He's run several hedge funds, venture capital funds, and he's a successful angel investor in technology, energy, and biotech. He's also lost all his money, made it back, lost it, made it back several times and openly discusses how he did it. 

SHERLOCK : These iTunes podcasts have a lot of great insight. He's someone I recommend you follow.

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K-12 student database jazzes tech startups, spooks parents

An education technology conference this week in Austin, Texas, will clang with bells and whistles as startups eagerly show off their latest wares.

But the most influential new product may be the least flashy: a $100 million database built to chart the academic paths of public school students from kindergarten through high school.

The database is a joint project of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which provided most of the funding, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and school officials from several states. Amplify Education, a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, built the infrastructure over the past 18 months.

SHERLOCK : YES. YOU ARE READING THAT RIGHT!!! Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Rupert Murdoch (News Corp/Fox News) are behind Common Core. They have exclusive rights to collect data on all K-12 students.

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This graph shows the college enrollment for public and private schools in the United States from 1965 to 2011 with an additional forecast to 2021. In 2011, about 5.9 million students were enrolled in private colleges and 15.1 million in public colleges.

SHERLOCK : There are 22 MILLION millennials in college today...and that number is growing rapidly. You will need more than a degree and post-graduate degree to compete in the job market. Have you got a plan?

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The Excellent But False Messaging of the Common Core Standards

The talking points sounded poll-tested because they were. The language was the same because it came from the same source. The campaign to have "rigorous," "high standards" that would make ALL students "college and career-ready" and "globally competitive" was well planned and coordinated. There was no evidence for these claims but repeated often enough in editorials and news stories and in ads by major corporations, they took on the ring of truth.

SHERLOCK : Common Core was marketed and sold by professionals on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. And, on equally blind government Fed/State/Local officials.

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Here Is The Salary At Which Money Won't Make You Any Happier In Each State

How much money do you need to make in your state before more money doesn't really make you all that happier? We created a map so you could find out.

SHERLOCK : You do realize that income and happiness is directly relevant to your cost-of-living (where you live) and to your debt...don't you?

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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Where You Go To College

There are a lot of opinions about where you should go to college. A lot of those opinions are probably wrong -- at least the ones based on myths about what makes a good school to get a degree from.

We wanted to explain a few things a lot of people usually get incorrect about where to go to college.

Where You Go To School Doesn't Really Affect Your Income.

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What Millennials Can Teach Boomers About Start-up Success

They don’t want to go to work at a great company — they want to create one. While much has been written about the perceived laziness of the youngest generations of adults, it is clear they are willing to think and act differently in their approach to employment. In that respect they have much to teach their parents. Here are some of the lessons boomers could learn.

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Who Do We Think We Are? - NYTimes.com

AMERICA’S infatuation with the World Cup came at the perfect moment, illuminating the principle that you can lose and still advance. Young people are more optimistic than their rueful elders, especially those in the technology world. They are the anti-Cheneys, competitive but not triumphalist. They think of themselves as global citizens, not interested in exalting America above all other countries.

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These Are The "Worst Possible States To Live In" As Ranked By Their Residents

Residents with the most pride in their state as a place to live generally boast a greater standard of living, higher trust in state government, and less resentment toward the amount they pay in state taxes. However, the factors that residents use to determine whether their state is a great place to live are not always obvious.

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Pray that the millenials can rescue us from the reign of the boomers

Boomers inherited a system based on compromise and sacrifice — and they gave us the current standoff. They received a United States victorious in the Cold War and atop the world economy — and they gave us the Iraq War and the Great Recession. They are the parents of the first generation in U.S. history — the millennials — to have a lower standard of living than previous generations.

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The Secret To Dealing With Passive-Aggressive People

Ah, passive aggression. The best way to handle conflict. There's a reason why passive-aggressive behavior gets such a bad rap. Not only is it...

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Starting Today Interest On New Student Loans Rises By 20%

 While the new quarter has started with a bang for the capital markets and those 1% who actually benefit from one after another record high ...

SHERLOCK : The news on jobs is only getting worse for millennials. You may be tired of my constant posts on the reality of the situation. Please understand, my intent is not to beat you down but to encourage critical thinking. If you are starting college, in college or leaving college - you must understand the road ahead and plan a course of study or action that isn't going to break your spirit.  

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17 Facts That Prove That The Quality Of Jobs In America Is Going Down The Drain

Do you wish that you had a better job? If so, you are not alone.In fact, there are millions upon millions of Americans ...

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40% of unemployed workers are millennials

New research reveals the growing problem of youth unemployment The jobs market is improving, according to government data released Thursday, but millennials...

SHERLOCK : I just wants you to understand the challenges so you can find a path forward.