Are you concerned about your job security? Are you concerned about what will happen to your business during the Covid-19 . I am sure you must be among those who are passing through sleepless nights these days. But if you are familiar with the concept of learn, Unlearn and Relearn then you may not be worried. Your flexibility, adaptability and relearning capabilities will keep you relevant and keep you ready for future challenges. With this one virtue you will remain invincible, and you will come out as winner from all difficult situations of life, profession and business.
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.”
In the adventure of life, we start the journey of learning from day one of our life. We learn at home from parents, from our neighborhood, from our friends and in schools. But later in life we realize that lots of learning was no longer relevant and we needed to quickly unlearn what we learnt and relearn new things.
Henry David Thoreau said, “When any progress is made we unlearn and learn anew what we thought that we new before”.
We learn lots of new things when we migrate to college from school and then again when we join the first job. All the time we must be ready to relearn. This process of learning, unlearning, and relearning keeps us going through the life journey successfully.
Charles Darwin said, ‘It is not the strongest of the species that survies, nor the most intelligent survives, it is the one that is most adaptable to change”
In the current context of COVID -19, this concept is very real and extremely relevant. Millions of jobs are getting lost across the world. But at the same time millions of new jobs are coming every day. All those who can keep themselves relevant in the changing world shall be able to face the challenges paused by the new world order and shall not only survive, but also thrive. The concept of unlearning and learning is going to be extremely important during the coming few months.
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The concept of learning, unlearning, and relearning is all about being flexible and adaptable. During last few decades people all over the world have moved from personal socializing to virtual socializing. People have unlearned meeting personally and moved to meeting on social media. The handwritten notes and letters have buried in history and people have migrated to emails. The artificial intelligence has taken over the human brain. Now people no longer remember the telephone numbers of their friends rather they simply tap on their mobile and all information is available to them. Adoption of technology even by the illiterate people in the society has been a big transition and startling example of learning and unlearning and relearning.
The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report suggests that by 2022, no less than 54{2facf265810d5c64deca339a00197305ceb917dadef902f2426694cb75f36e2b} of all employees will need significant re-skilling and upskilling. The skills required to grow in coming times shall be related to being productive through IT and innovation. Health care is emerging as new focused Industry and all those who can learn new skills in new upcoming areas shall be able to make a great future.
So lets understand what personal qualities are needed to adept the concept of learning, Unlearning and relearning. The most important skills required is flexibility and openness to learn. All those who are keen to learn must also be great observers. They must be able to see what all is happening around the world. Learners of future keep an eye on emerging trends and prepare themselves for future.
In past not only lots of people failed to unlearn but even very big corporations failed to unlearn and relearn. Kodak, Nokia, Blackberry, HMT and Hindustan Motors are such few example. There are lots of intelligent executives who just refused to learn the computers and got outdated and finally got out of the job. The market does not wait for any one. The world moves on its own pace. All those who will be able to learn, unlearn and relearn will only remain relevant and the rest will become irrelevant and get left behind. Choice is yours.
Ray Kurzweill’s law of accelerating returns emphasizes upon the exponential, effects of technological changes. As per his analysis, we will not experience 100 years of progress in the next 100 years — we will experience 20,000 years of progress!
Today we have the best tools for learning at our disposal. We have google, YouTube, Social Media and so many other tools. We have access of all kind of information on the click of a button. You can connect anyone across the world sitting at your home and talk as if the other person is sitting Infront of you. There cannot be better environment of learning. But learning does not mean only acquiring knowledge, learning means changing of behavior. If you have capability to learn and upgrade your skills, then you are the winner and you are always future-ready.
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Rakesh Sharma is one of the best business coach in India and Business growth consultant. He runs his own Sales Training in NCR. His company is rated one among the best sales training companies in the country by the clients. He is a sales coach in India. he has coached hundreds of clients. As Sales Trainer in India he has trained coached and trained thousands of trainees across country. He a one among the best business coach in NCR and Sales Consultant in NCR.
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