Lifelong Learning : The art of career building in 2018

Today, the way we interact with people, the tools we use, and the way we work are all changing at an incredibly rapid pace? This has huge implications for the way we run our careers. In fact, it demands that we utterly reinvent our approach, shifting from a focus on past accomplishments—the “resumé model”—to constant self-iteration, or what I think of as the “learner’s model.

” To move to this model, we must adopt a new set of career rules.

 A set of rules that are quite literal and made to be broken.

The answer is not so black and white. Whether or not we go to college or varsity, the new world of work demands that we embrace learning as a lifelong project. It’s not something that stops after high school, or after varsity, or even after you find your career path, land your first book deal, or sell your first company. And it’s not something that happens only in a classroom, or only in books. In fact, the real learning usually happens anywhere but those places.

As those of us who have been through it know, the most interesting thing about leaving high school or college or varsity and diving into the world of work is that you instantly realize just how much you still have to learn. You get your first job, or you start hustling on your own, and you discover a massive new learning curve.

As the social philosopher, Eric Hoffer wrote, “In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future,” while “the learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”

The learning curve that happens when you step outside of a safe, pre-planned environment and try to create something that no one has created before. The learning curve that happens when you face a great, wide world filled with uncertainty for the first time.

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