‘Listen to your heart,’ say young pros

The idea for the digital meeting came from the pandemic, as the organizers (the National Documentation Center and the youth organization Youthmakers Hub) felt the need for positive and inspiring paradigms in the midst of this general feeling of pessimism. Titled "6 under 30," the online discussion brought together six hopeful young Greeks and participants connecting from Greece and abroad (one was watching from Japan).

"Each of them, successful in their fields, made it with hard work, and most importantly, are nice, collected people, always with a smile," says Dimitris Maragkos, one of the organizers. "One of the requirements the speakers needed to fulfill was to be young. Given that most of the audience participating in such events are students, they wanted speakers who were close in age and could speak directly to their hearts," explains Maragkos. Moreover, two of the six...