🎙️ Lex Friedman, one of my absolute favorite podcast hosts, has recently interviewed the historian Yuval Harari (author of books like Sapiens and Homo Deus). A thought provoking interview - give it a listen!
At the end of the interview, Lex asks Yuval for advice to young people how to have a successful career.
🎯 The answer is profound and applies to companies as well as individuals…
(For a full quote answer please listen to the podcast)
Yuval:
It’s the first time in history nobody has any idea how the world would look like in 10 years. … Throughout history, it was never possible to predict the future. But the basic structures of life will not change. Most people will still be peasants. Armies would fight on horseback with swords and bows and arrows and things like that. So you could learn a lot from the wisdom of your elders. They’ve been there before and they knew what kind of basic skills you need to learn.
Now we have no idea how the job market would look like in 10 years. We have no idea what skills will still be needed.
So the most important skill is the skill to keep learning and keep changing throughout our lives, which is very, very difficult. To keep reinventing ourselves.
Traditionally, people thought about education like building a stone house with very deep foundations. Now it’s more like setting up a tent that you can fold and move to the next place very, very quickly.
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🤔 How do you feel about reinventing yourself? What about your company? Do you focus on stability or agility?
#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies | Lex Fridman Podcast
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