| Title | : | 2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World |
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| ISBN | : | 1250067618 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781250067616 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 |
| Publication | : | First published May 5, 2015 |
2 Billion Under 20 is a book, online community, and movement inspired by the 2 billion people in the world currently at or under the age of twenty. We stand for Millennials, Gen Z'ers, and those who want to better understand them and their unique potential. This book shows how we can all act on our passions and make a difference at any age.
Young entrepreneurs Stacey Ferreira and Jared Kleinert have brought together seventy-five stories from ambitious young people like Paige McKenzie, who started her own YouTube channel at sixteen that now has more than 55 million views; Sam Mikulak, who's represented Team USA in the Olympics and is a seven-time NCAA champion in Men's Gymnastics; Jack Andraka, who developed an early detection test for pancreatic cancer at fifteen; Tallia Storm, a Scottish singer who was discovered by and opened a concert for Elton John, on her way to signing a record deal with Virgin Records; Dau Jok, who escaped civil war in South Sudan to become captain of the University of Pennsylvania's Division 1 basketball team and founder of a nonprofit to help youth in his native country, and many other accomplished and inspiring Millennials from all walks of life.
All of these young people-members of the 2BillionUnder20.com community-have joined forces to show the world how Millennials are taking care of business. Join the movement and change the world!
2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World Reviews
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Great book detailing millenials aged 20 and below who are changing the world as we know it. The main themes of the book: Don't lose your childlike idealism or your passions, but instead chase after it, take action, learn under mentors and give.
Take action.
And lastly, be resilient. Fail. And fail afterwords. Then fail again. Get used to failure. But never let that failure stop you, instead bounce back up again, let it change you and harden you, as you grow into the best version of yourself.
I highly recommend this book to anyone questioning whether or not it is possible to make even a small impact on this world.
Because it truly is possible, and we live in the best of time to do it: Now. -
too many people being included in the books, it made the section for each person is very little, one of the section even only has 2 pages which is kinda impactless. It should be better if there are less person in the book, and even better if it can connect one story to another since some people has success in same area. The cover is also deceiving because it only put 16 pictures, but it tells story of 50+ person
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This was definitely an inspirational book. It is amazing to see the work being done by young people across the world. The stories became a little redundant after the first 100 pages or so.
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This is an inspirational look at millennials that started making contributions to our world before the age of twenty. It’s a great reminder to the young that they can make a difference.
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I did not expect to be inspired by this book and yet I was. One gap in this book was the repeated discussions of how "Oh, school isn't for me," but then other essays would mention how important the skill of writing was. Of course, one does not need to go to school to learn writing, necessarily, but I suppose the bigger point to me is that this set of hard-driving young people shows me the need for proper gifted & talented educational tracks at all sorts of age levels. I went to FaceBook to look up a number of these people and they are all real individuals. I'm even separated by only 2 degrees from one of them! I'd love to hear what these young people accomplish in the next 10 years. I hope that none of them have peaked too early. At the onset of the book I was worried that all of the young people would be portrayed as superheroes, invincible to the foibles of mortal men. . . but that is not how these essays were written. So many of these youngsters admit their mortal flaws in honest ways and discuss their painful paths forward. Those essays about overcoming adversity (both external and internal) were more valuable to me than many of the stories about how so-and-so was a CEO of a one-person company. I wish all of them success. A great book for educators and for exceptional people who wish for inspiration.
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This book is OK. Just a bunch of essays from people a few years younger than me with semi-ambitious goals. None of these guys are Outliers to me, maybe I just know awesome people. But I dunno. Nothing that was said here was amazing or super inspiring. However, I'm not under 20 (I'm 26). I'd recommend this to my seven year old nephew.
I'll definitely look for The Earth Is Flat though. -
FTC Disclosure: I received this book free from Goodreads hoping I would review it.
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Probably interesting for readers aged <30.
Not for me though -apparently, I am not in that age group :-)
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