Learn, Unlearn And Relearn: How To Stay Relevant?
While we’re all born with an intense desire to learn, somewhere along the line many of us lose our passion for learning. Whatever the reasons, once the basics are covered, many of us tend to stick with what we know and avoid situations or challenges where we may mess up or be forced to learn something new, thus creating a safe, secure and comfortable (and confining) world for ourselves. Here, we do our best to mould the changes going on around us—in people, events and the general environment—to fit with our current ‘mental maps.’ We may say we’re open to change but actually do our best to avoid it. For a while, that strategy can work fairly well. What it doesn’t do is prepare us to adapt to a future that may well require an entirely new set of maps.
When you resist learning, unlearning and relearning, the options available to you can narrow greatly. When it comes to adapting to change, a delay is increasingly expensive as you quickly lose your place in a world forever marching steadily forward. Change is the only constant and disruptive technologies are only quickening its pace. The constant change will require constant learning and relearning. To succeed today you must be in a constant state of adaptation – continually unlearning old ‘rules’ and relearning new ones. That requires continually questioning assumptions about how things work, challenging old paradigms, and ‘relearning’ what is now relevant in your job, your industry, your career, and your life.
As the global economy evolves and market forces drive competition for jobs to new levels, it’s the people who have proactively worked to expand and diversify their skill sets who will be the most well placed. People who find opportunities in a changing environment are those who are actively looking for them. The choice is simple: act or be acted upon. Since change is the only constant you can truly rely upon, learning to navigate and adapt to it is not just important to your survival, it’s essential for you to thrive in the bigger game of life.
As futurist and philosopher, Alvin Toffler once wrote: "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn."
Happy Sunday!! Keep Moving & Smiling!!🏃🏽😊
When you resist learning, unlearning and relearning, the options available to you can narrow greatly. When it comes to adapting to change, a delay is increasingly expensive as you quickly lose your place in a world forever marching steadily forward. Change is the only constant and disruptive technologies are only quickening its pace. The constant change will require constant learning and relearning. To succeed today you must be in a constant state of adaptation – continually unlearning old ‘rules’ and relearning new ones. That requires continually questioning assumptions about how things work, challenging old paradigms, and ‘relearning’ what is now relevant in your job, your industry, your career, and your life.
As the global economy evolves and market forces drive competition for jobs to new levels, it’s the people who have proactively worked to expand and diversify their skill sets who will be the most well placed. People who find opportunities in a changing environment are those who are actively looking for them. The choice is simple: act or be acted upon. Since change is the only constant you can truly rely upon, learning to navigate and adapt to it is not just important to your survival, it’s essential for you to thrive in the bigger game of life.
As futurist and philosopher, Alvin Toffler once wrote: "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn."
Happy Sunday!! Keep Moving & Smiling!!🏃🏽😊
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