Become a professional learner to stay relevant in your job.
On day 1 of #Ship30for30, I make a case to look at your work through the lens of learning. In an increasingly complex world, that's the only way to thrive.
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On day 1 of #Ship30for30, I make a case to look at your work through the lens of learning. In an increasingly complex world, that's the only way to thrive.
🧵 You can also read the essay as a thread 👇
How are you going to stay relevant in your job?
In our fast-moving world, simple and complicated problems are evaporating and replaced by complex ones. Never did companies and institutions have to solve so many challenges in so little time.
In our fast-moving world, simple and complicated problems are evaporating and replaced by complex ones. Never did companies and institutions have to solve so many challenges in so little time.
You have two options in this new reality: innovate or die.
Change has killed the knowledge worker. Knowing is no longer needed—everyone has thousands of encyclopedias in their pocket. What's needed are new insights. But insights are lacking as workers still rely on old systems.
Change has killed the knowledge worker. Knowing is no longer needed—everyone has thousands of encyclopedias in their pocket. What's needed are new insights. But insights are lacking as workers still rely on old systems.
The only way to adapt to new challenges is by learning.
Companies that experiment the fastest can ship first, giving them an advantage. Think Tesla with its pool of learning and connected cars, which enabled them to lead self-driving technology.
Companies that experiment the fastest can ship first, giving them an advantage. Think Tesla with its pool of learning and connected cars, which enabled them to lead self-driving technology.
Work is learning, and learning has become the work.
Only when you know how to learn do you have a repeatable skill in the Information Age. A programming language may become irrelevant, but knowing how to build on that scaffold to learn something new quickly is a superpower.
Only when you know how to learn do you have a repeatable skill in the Information Age. A programming language may become irrelevant, but knowing how to build on that scaffold to learn something new quickly is a superpower.
Once you have the tool of knowing how to learn, you can start to think of ways to capitalize on it.
Managers notice you're good at learning if you're the one teaching others. That's your chance to become a professional learner.
Managers notice you're good at learning if you're the one teaching others. That's your chance to become a professional learner.
Professional learners don't just ingest—their power comes from sharing freely.
Understanding deepens through dialogue, that's how you find solutions to complex problems. It's also the way to improve the world and grow professionally.
Learn how to learn to stay relevant.
Understanding deepens through dialogue, that's how you find solutions to complex problems. It's also the way to improve the world and grow professionally.
Learn how to learn to stay relevant.
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