In this post ‘But what could you learn instead?’, Seth Godin reminds us that now is the time to accelerate our learning to face a disrupted world – but that at the same time, learning is not necessarily correlated with formal education.
“Learning takes effort, and it’s hard to find the effort when the world is in flux, when we’re feeling uncertain and when we’re being inundated with bad news. But that’s the moment when learning is more important than ever.”
But learning is quite different to formal education which was developed during the industrial age and is actually a way to ensure conformity and the capability to do hard work.
“This shift [from education to true learning] is difficult to commit to, because unlike education, learning demands change. Learning makes us incompetent just before it enables us to grasp mastery. Learning opens our eyes and changes the way we see, communicate and act.”
Let us remind us always that never have we faced more the need to learn, but that there are myriads of ways to learn and change which are not just formal education.
