@adrienne
The half life of skills keeps shrinking.
The half life is how long it takes for a skill to become obsolete. Skills you learn today will not be the same skills you need in a few years. For example, I learned to code in Visual Basic and could get high paying jobs easily in the early 2000s but by 2005 I couldn’t find a job unless I learned a new language.
How do you raise kids in a world when you don’t know what skills they’ll need?
The skills of the future are meta skills and have more of an EQ slant, considering we can have our AIs handle the IQ.
Here are the things I want for my children:
- a love of learning and natural curiosity
- self confidence and agency that they can learn anything and do anything if they choose to
- a business sense, understanding of markets
- positive sum mindset, build something new
- and most importantly do not resist change! try new things, don’t get attached to the past
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