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Recently I found this piece on BBC News<\/b><\/a>, and think we could have a conversation. What did you want to do when you were eleven? (I wanted to be a professional athlete, but the sport changed from season to season. I didn’t get there, or even close!)<\/p>\n

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Do you remember what you wanted to be when you grew up – and have you achieved it? A study run over the past 50 years has tested what helps childhood aspirations become reality.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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In 1969 when they were 11 years old, 14,000 British children were asked to write 30-minute essays predicting what they might become in the future. ….<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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“There is definitely an observable link between what people are aspiring to do when they are 11 years old and what they end up doing when they are older.”<\/p>\n

Of those with professional aspirations at age 11 – with dreams of being a vet, a lawyer, an architect – more than half did indeed end up entering professional occupations, even if their eventual career wasn’t quite the one they had had in mind. <\/p>\n

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