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# About
Title: [[Other/Obsidian Starter Vault(Second Brain)/Readwise 1/Articles/Research Reveals the №1 Life Skill That Schools Surprisingly Don’t Teach]]
Author: [[medium.com]]
Category: #articles
Number of Highlights: ==7==
Last Highlighted: *2022-02-18*
Readwise URL: https://readwise.io/bookreview/13719137
Source URL: https://medium.com/accelerated-intelligence/research-reveals-the-four-steps-to-learn-faster-than-everyone-else-cc8c05ff528d


# Highlights 
The most important skill anybody can learn is the ability to learn rare and useful skills on-demand.  ^288646352

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“In order to keep up with the world of 2050, you will need not merely to invent new ideas and products but above all to reinvent yourself again and again.”  ^288646353

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The most in-demand and high-paying skills of the future have not yet been created, because the world is so rapidly changing.  ^288646354

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Here are just a few of his predictions of what will happen by then:  ^288646355

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Even the most maverick futurist Ray Kurzweil, Director Of Engineering at Google, doesn’t even try to predict past the 2040s.  ^288646356

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Mind uploading perfected.Nanomachines in peoples’ brains, augmenting their cognition, senses, and giving them the ability to communicate “telepathically,” perfected.Human intelligence multiplied by billions.People spend most of their time in VR.Non-biological intelligence becomes billions of times more capable than biological intelligence.$1,000 buys a computer a billion times more intelligent than every human combined.  ^288646357

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Given the changes on the horizon, you would think that learning how to learn would be taught in every school and baked into the corporate culture of every company. It isn’t.  ^288646358