As of late someone I know is heavily considering doing online schooling to finish out his senior year of high school. I've been trying to convince him to not to and just finish it out but his response back was that he just hates school and "useless work" (and the fact he can't focus (ADHD and ADD)). Not only that, afterwards I asked him what his plans after senior year were and he doesn't plan to go to college and his goal is to get some job (I can't remember what it was) that has wages around $15 ~ $20. His response made me a little bit sad because I know what he's capable of and I know he's a lot smarter than he thinks he is. How do I convince him to continuing schooling in an actual school environment and get him to think about his future more?
This person (same person generlso doesn't care about a lot things I wish this person would. He doesn't care about politics and yet has some issues with society ( a part of that person's response was that they have no idea how politics work and doesn't know the difference between a democrat and a Republican (I seriously hope that response was a joke)). Not only that his beliefs in politics seem to be really weak and he believes there should really only be one law. Whcih spurred me to bring uup what he thinkgs are citizen rights vs human righta and couldn't give me a response to that. When I brought up the various shootings that occurred in the United States throughout our time we've known each other such as The Dark Knight screening and his response was to it still haunts me today is "I mean yeah it's sad and all but I don't care since its not close here." Fast forward a bit to the Marysville-Pillschuck shooting (that is close to here for us) he still didn't seem to care as much. I can go on and on with this list. But how do I as a friend get hhim to realize the importance of politics and make him care whats going on in the news today? I find it really concerning becuase we're almost at the time where we're about to become a part of society but even faster for this person since he plans on working after he finished schooling. I've tried talking to him three times about these issues I've mentioned that I have with him, what should I do?
In the US there are a lot of "art minded" people and yet they don't want to pursue a career in them (or follow their dreams to put it that way) because there's no financial stability with what they want to do, so be it from photography, film, music, dance, and more. It seems only you make it to the top can you make a living of those careers and sometimes some reach there just by luck and many others are not so lucky who decide to pursue their dreams. What do you think that current generations and societies can do to address this? Or is there not any we can address this?
An Abundance of Katherines was interesting to read with the mathematics involve with Collin's relationships. What was your thought process to represent his love life through math in the first place?
As of late Hollywood seems to be lacking originality and I think book adaptations aren't really helping the cause. Agree or Disagree?
As someone who has read both TFioS and Paper Towns how would you convince me to go see both of their film adaptations?
And lastly I'd just like to thank you for doing this AMA (and to thank you if you ever do answer these questions) and for Crash Course for they did help me out to an extent for the AP History exams I've taken so far (and my teachers too for my teachers like to show Crash Course as well). Have a fantastic rest of the day.