They are insatiable learners who spend their leisure time devouring books, listening to audiobooks and podcasts and traveling widely to experience the world’s different cultures. A polymath is an individual whose knowledge spans a significant number of subjects and is able to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems. Many of these entrepreneurs and skilled creative professionals what has been traditionally called polymaths. Instead, they tend to be curious about a wide range of topics, which makes them more well-rounded than the average person in their knowledge of the world and their ability to gain acceptance of their ideas by different kinds of people. They are rarely highly specialized in a single area. Nearly all of the most successful entrepreneurs and creative professionals I have met have a do-it-yourself mentality when it comes to learning. In the coming age of machine learning and artificial intelligence, the most important skills and abilities will be centered on what makes us uniquely human and therefore can’t be easily replicated by robots or AI.Ī new learning model to train these skills and abilities will need to focus less on routine thinking, memorization, testing and compliance with a standardized government curriculum and more on practical skills that are best learned in the real world through self-directed learning and mentorship:Ĭreativity, risk-taking, empathy, emotional intelligence, storytelling, purpose-orientation, perseverance, relationship building, leadership and curiosity. Most schools are still training students for the 20th century industrial factories and bureaucracies that either no longer exist or are soon to be replaced. The Fourth Industrial Revolution happening right now is rendering the existing model of standardized, factory-style education obsolete. I believe we need a radical new learning model organized around the problems that matter most to society today.
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