In a world of disinformation overload, it’s sometimes hard to find sane voices that resonate. Scott Galloway, a wealthy American entrepreneur and academic, is one of those voices.
Galloway has an ability to cut through the white noise of not just politics, but of the human condition.
His strongest suit is the advice he gives to young people, which ranges from financial, to how to be a successful adult and a valued part of society.
While what’s needed is more leaders, modern society just seems to be producing managers – that’s why his perspective is so important.
Galloway’s advice has changed lives. As a mentor, he is able to help young men find their feet and move on from internet porn, gaming, and low self-esteem. He talks candidly around how a young man can prepare himself to be ready to date a young woman.
The low self-esteem and the lack of direction of young men is perhaps one of the reasons Trump won.
Galloway is a Democrat, yet believes young men were ignored by the party. Trump instead shrewdly flew into the ‘manospehere’ by going on Joe Rogan’s podcast and appealing to a large cohort who are now worse off than their parents.
The same could be said for Australia’s younger generations.
Galloway’s career is characterised by a willingness to take risks, learn from failure, and pivot quickly – it’s a mindset he says was shaped by his early experiences and modest upbringing by his single mum.
After graduating with an economic degree, he eventually started successful companies that led him to be Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business. Ever since, he has been all over the public discourse, with books, podcasts and interviews.
He told comedian Trevor Noah on Trevor’s podcast What Now? that, ‘The greatest invention of the 20th century is not the iPhone or the semiconductor, it was the middle class’.
‘And fundamental to that was seven million men who returned from WWII. They had demonstrated excellence in uniform.
‘We gave them enough money so they could afford a home, we gave them jobs, and they became very attractive to women, and we started the baby boom.’
And through the prosperity, he said women and minorities were brought along.
‘A majority of leaders served in the same uniform,’ he said, ‘and they saw themselves as Americans before Republicans or Democrats’.
‘Unless we can find a place where we can level up young people and find them a place where they can meet, fall in love, have babies and have the economic wherewithal to do it, we are just going to keep generating the most dangerous person in the world – and that is a young man without any economic or romantic prospects’.
Hans Lovejoy, editor
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