The Most Important Skill to Thrive In the Future of Work
Be curious—learn like a 4-year-old
Be curious — learn and think like a 4-year-old
Learning is a force for change.
Thriving in the future of work is not about the skills you have but about the skills you can acquire. Learning how to learn is a competitive advantage.
But, we got it all wrong. We keep teaching kids to think like machines. And machines to think like adults.
For years, scientists have been trying to replicate the wrong mind — that of an adult. Teaching machines to defeat a chess master is easy— but machines cannot think like a 4-year-old.
The father of computer science and artificial intelligence was onto something back in the ’50s.
“Instead of trying to produce a program to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s?” — Alan Turing
It took us 60 years to finally bring computer scientists and developmental psychologists together to decipher the formula of curiosity.
The secret of learning lies in kindergarten, not in the adult brain.
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