Just do it.
By Guest Writer posted September 17, 2024 (238 View)
I was intrigue when my old English high-school rounded up a list of top 10 most borrowed books in 2024. It should narrow down the debates what the 13-18 aged group aspire and can accomplish when they grow up.
The top 10 are:
1. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, by Phil Knight
A tale of a successful start-up culture, a game-changing strategy and power and vitality of marketing and branding
2. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
A struggle between man's desire for knowledge and individuality in a society that expects ignorance and conformity. The search for identity is as much about a “creative” endgame
3. Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results, by James Clear
It’s is guide on how to make the best out of your habits and get 1% better every day.
4. Born a Crime and Other Stories, by Trevor Noah
This is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist.
5. The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet, by A.D Cousins and Peter Howarth
The Companion expertly guides readers through the sonnet's history and development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today.
6. Holes, by Louis Sachar
But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment
— and redemption.
7. One Of Us Is Lying, by Karen McManus
Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.
Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.
Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.
Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher.
And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app.
Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.
8. Touching the Void, by Joe Simpson
The heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes.
9. The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
A thorough exploration of the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche - and the profound collective loneliness that modern society has yet to find a solution for. The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
10. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, by Holly Jackson
An Agatha Christie’s revisit. crime novel remains forever a classic past-time
Definitely, this Gen Z generation, born into a digital whirlwind environment, is entrepreneurial and pragmatic – compared to our baby boomer generation.
Then, we were reading classics by Somerset Maugham, F Scott Fitzgerald,
Thomas Hardy, Isaac Asimov, P G Woodhouse, Graham Greene, John Le Carre, Simon Raven, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Such that, for example, we absorbed travel in post-colonial world, human cynicism, romance, outer world imagination, aristocratic laughter, the Cold War, intelligence, adventure and epic fantasy. And happily enough, 1984 was not the 1984.
Our generation moved into careers that far from being marketing-savvy and less to do with saving the world. Just do it, certainly, was not among our strengths. But some piss artist ones did become geniuses later on in life.
We do share the intellectual curiosity alongside the Gen Z. Both generations are willingly seduced by “who’s done it’? Then we departed. The Gen Z enhanced personal development and embraced societal insights - preparing them for a startup success and unique identity in the tech era. And yet, the world to them may be a bit darker and less happier.
For Gen Z, there is wealth to be made early on in life; and the UK and the world to be saved!
