Today, we are exploring the single most critical skill for thriving in an era of unprecedented change: the commitment to lifelong learning.
For generations, education was viewed as a finite stage of life. You went to school, perhaps to college, and then you graduated. At that point, your formal learning was largely complete, and your career was about applying the knowledge you had acquired. That model is now entirely obsolete. The world is changing at a pace that is both exhilarating and unsettling. Industries are being disrupted overnight, new technologies emerge and mature in a matter of years, and skills that were once valuable can quickly become redundant.