Skill Development is the Key to Stay Relevant in your Profession
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 into you. Extraordinary careers do 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.
The world is changing very fast and there is no such thing as a “safe and secure” job anymore. Being relevant is crucial in this extremely competitive digitized business world. Staying up-to-date and learning new skills can help you become more active and marketable.
Upgrading knowledge by learning and practising new skills not only improves your employability but also helps you connect with your coworkers and customers.
As Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Automation replace human tasks, humans have to take up new creative and advanced tasks to remain relevant and contribute to society.
In my experience, having learnt new skills (gradually progressing from typewriters to computers) to stay relevant in my profession, continuous skill development is the need of the hour.
— Inspired by Robert Greene’s book, Mastery