10/11/2017

Is It Better To Learn From People Or From Books?

If you don’t know how to learn, you will be really left behind

I firmly believe that meta-learning–i.e. learning how to learn–is arguably one of the most important skills in the 21^st century.

The world is changing so fast, that the skills you need to learn will change from decade to decade, if not year to year. If that weren’t enough, deep learning and machine learning are breathing down your neck (here’s my recent article on building skills in the AI era). So, if you don’t know how to learn, you will be really left behind.

Of course, in the internet age, we have innumerable options available at our disposal to learn. We can learn from books, podcasts, the Internet, online schools, instructors, peers, colleagues or anyone really.

Please click here to read the complete article on LinkedIn.