Skill Development, Not Education, is the Need of the Hour
I’ve never heard of schools and colleges that encourage you to find out what you are good at and focus on it. Instead, these institutions try to thrust a standard template of professional life to you. Extraordinary careers does not come out of templates. They come from years of practice.
There is also a theory that schools were invented just to make you obedient and not question authority. By now, I think it is kind of obvious. The *“good boys”* at school never had any real success in life. It was always the rebels. But that’s a topic for another day.
Learning new skills is very important in this day and age because, by the time you graduate from college, your skills are already outdated. The world is changing very fast and there is no such thing as a *“safe and secure”* job anymore.
As AI, Machine Learning and automation replace human tasks, humans have to take up new creative and advanced tasks to remain relevant and contributing to the society.
In my experience of having learned a lot of new skills (graduating from typewriters to computers), I have learnt that continuous skill development is the need of the hour.
— Inspired by Robert Greene’s book, *Mastery*