“You’re going to want to be creative,” Garman said to CNBC last month. “You’re going to want to be [good at] critical thinking. And you’re going to want to be flexible.”I think the ability to learn new things and adapt is going to be just as important as any particular skill that you learn,” he added.It’s something that even AI leaders agree with too, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.“I think critical thinking, creativity, the ability to figure out what other people want, the ability to have new ideas, that in some sense that’ll be the most valuable skill of the future,” Altman told students at Howard University last year.
How should they accomplish this goal of making themselves more critical, yet more flexible and creative?
Part of this recipe includes ditching social media algorithms and seeking out new sources of information, he says—which should include a focus on questioning history and philosophy. Studying the works of those who lived more than 2,000 years ago—like Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle—is what he recommends.
“Always ask why, and then go one level below double click, triple click, to the sources. Why? Why? Why? Why? If you do that, you’re going to develop a mind that’s going to be able to beat anybody else and be more valuable in the workplace,” he said.
Send your kids here, I guess.
