Forget About Learning Knowledge — Learn This Instead

Why would you retain information when the Internet gives it for free?

Skilled people have become rare.

When I was 20, I made one of the worst decisions of my life.

I went to study communication at university.

At the time, I valued much more the voice of other people than my own.

School had taught me that whatever I thought about myself was wrong and that I should follow other people’s advice instead of my own.

And so I did.

The mainstream advice back then was “go study” (which in itself, is not especially good advice), and more specifically, it was “go study something you like”.

As I quickly discovered once I entered the job market, that was terrible advice.

By the time I had understood it, it was too late.

Making a Living Is Hard

Making a living is hard.

The period of steady economic growth is over and AI will soon make many people redundant.

As such, getting a job is not about doing “what you like.”

It is about solving a problem for someone else.