Research Reveals The №1 Life Skill That Schools Surprisingly Don’t Teach

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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.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

The reasons are simple:

• To succeed over our entire career, we’ll need to learn dozens of new skills.
• The most in-demand and high-paying skills of the future have not yet been created, because the world is so rapidly changing.
• Therefore, it is impossible to fully front load our learning at the beginning of our career.
• The people who learn hard, in-demand skills first will have the most successful careers .