When I finished high school I didn't know what to choose. I was interested in economics, psychology, philosophy — lots of options, and few useful tools to make sense of them. Luckily I had people close to me who had already been through it and could give advice. That's not the case for everyone.
Why do I care about this problem? If you've read Back to Me, you already know.
The point is that, in our view, the useful tools are missing. We asked over 600 students to confirm this, and they did.
This becomes a problem because people end up choosing without much awareness. There's a lack of internal awareness — what I like, what my inclinations are, my strengths, how I see myself in the future — and a lack of external awareness — what I can study and where, what it actually means to study something, and what I can do afterwards.
This gap has effects on our society and plenty of costs.
That's why we think it's a problem worth trying to solve. Both for the impact on the individual — a person with the right tools is able to decide. What they decide isn't what matters; what matters is what their conviction is based on. And for the impact on our society — if we can bring certain numbers down even by 0.1%, we believe the benefits are for everyone.