Brain Food: The Most Valuable Skill
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Brain Food: The Most Valuable Skill
With fewer and fewer exceptions, a skill that’s an accelerant in any career is the ability to communicate your ideas.
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
The most practical skill you can learn is working smarter. But here's what nobody tells you about working smarter: it often looks like you're working slower.
A programmer might spend 20 hours wrestling with a difficult algorithm, then have an insight in the shower that solves it in 10 lines of code. Those 20 hours weren't wasted—they were necessary
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The lesson: It's easy to focus on what will change, but in a world where it's unlikely you will be correct, it's more important to focus on what will stay the same.
Focus on the lighthouse.
Here are a few timeless human truths that will not change in the future:
Humans will want real, personal connection
Humans will want to consume things that make the
Intellectual curiosity will be an exceedingly important trait in a future where intelligence and energy are increasingly abundant. Willingness to follow a spark down a rabbit hole is a common trait of the most successful people.