We will always have people who make stuff.

Technology isn’t going to replace that.

Technology has only ever replaced those who wait to be told what to do.

I can’t help but think about how our educational system has consistently rewarded us for simply following instructions. It grades us on how well we did what we were told, nothing more.

So what’s the solution?

The solution is to flip the script.

Instead of rewarding compliance, we need to start rewarding initiative.

Instead of teaching students to follow instructions, we need to teach them to ask better questions, to challenge the status quo, to make their own maps in uncharted territory.

The future doesn’t belong to those who wait for instructions. It belongs to the makers, the initiators, the ones who see what others don’t and do what others won’t.

The real job isn’t to do what you’re told. It’s to create work that matters, to lead without a map, and to be the one who asks, “What if?”

That’s how you become irreplaceable in a world where technology is replacing everything else.