Learners Inherit the Future: Grow Fast in Times of Epic Change

hey there, my friend Jonathan Dole with you.

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move you just a fraction forward.

Because that is the purpose, that is the point to grow, to develop.

We are nothing stays stationary, right?

We're nothing stays stationary.

There is growth and movement.

It is in written in the laws of the cosmos itself.

And you, my friend, are not exempt.

I don't truly believe in the concept of homeostasis.

Which is the idea that we can build a life where we're completely protected

from everything, and things stay the same for us, as well as I do.

That is not possible.

We are either growing or we are atrophying, as I like to say.

We are growing or we are not.

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some level you are the kind of person that likes to grow, which means you

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Today I wanna share with you an absolutely cracking one liner, which I

think is a great deal of application at this moment in history from the great

writer and psychotherapist, Eric from.

Who just says this?

I dunno if you've ever heard this.

It's very powerful.

He says, in times of change, learners inherit.

The earth in times of change, learners inherit the earth.

When I read that, I thought that's quite brilliant and I

wanted to share it with you.

Why I am not gonna go deep, deep, deep down the rabbit hole on this one.

But next week I'm flying to Phoenix to speak to a large group of national.

Senior executives in the US and I'm doing a keynote there and one of the things

I'm focusing on is the sheer amount of change that deal they're dealing with.

And I'm not even at the keynote gonna go into too much detail on this, but

I, my thesis is that we are in a.

Period of genuine epochal change.

A sort of change that I don't think the planet may have ever witnessed before.

And I'll tell you why.

Always throughout human history, and I'm a deep student of human

history, both academically.

Intellectually in terms of just even my private reading for just my own

tion, the, there are definite what's that famous saying from Mark Twain?

History doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme.

There's definitely patterns in human history.

Totally get that, there's patterns that can be affected by weather and all

sorts of different events, things that happen, but I think we're heading into.

A period of change such as we may never have seen before, simply

because the nature of the change is essentially technological.

There's other very powerful components to it.

Ideological mass culture migrations, all sorts of things that are happening.

But I would say that in other times in human history, when these things happened,

they tended to be relatively localized.

By which I mean, the collapse of the of the Roman Empire.

Its final collapse round about 4 76 Now, yes, it continued in the

Eastern Empire in Constantinople, but that whole western Mediterranean

area, when that Roman empire finally imploded, that was massive, especially

if you were living in that region.

But if you were living in remote parts of Africa or Indonesia, or,

this was all the steps of Russia.

You wouldn't have been as impacted by it.

Now, you may have had, there may have been some impact, but what I'm getting

at is that big sort of empirical changes in terms of empires tended to be large,

but localized in the global sense.

But what I think's happening now is that the change is truly global because the

technological impact is global in terms of banking and finance, the economic

systems, travel data, all of this stuff.

It means that really big changes happen all at once, and then we

can add the AI piece to this.

And the purpose of this podcast is not to go really down the rabbit hole of

what that exactly is gonna look like other than its very significant change.

So that's why I wanted to share this with you.

In times of change, according to Eric from Learners Inherit the Earth, which means.

The people that survive are the ones that understand what's happening and learn the

skill sets necessary as fast as possible.

And this isn't even a message about career change or anything.

This is a message about, look closely at what's happening, and ask yourself the

question, what would I need to learn?

In a system like this or in, in a form of change like this.

The other thing about the change that's coming is that it's moving at

a pace that is quite extraordinary.

The Industrial Revolution was a process that took place

over decades, if not longer.

Yes, it happened, and yes, it was a seismic change to the way people had

lived but there was a kind of multi-decade period where people adjusted to it.

And let me tell you, it wasn't pleasant for a lot of people.

So as this change begins to speed up.

People who can learn the necessary skill are probably gonna do really well, and

these will be financial, economic skill sets, relational health skill sets.

There's a lot of things that you may want be paying attention to in

terms of what do you need to learn.

I don't wanna make this a depressing episode, but I don't think that the

changes that are coming are going to be everyone's cup of tea by any stretch.

I think we're basically gonna see the end of the western liberal order.

I think we're gonna see the end of the, or at least a massive

renegotiation of the relationship between the individual and the state.

And that's not gonna be pretty.

So as much as this is a motivational podcast.

There is a lot changing and it's changing fast and you need to pay

attention and you need to learn things.

And over the last sort of five years, without going into detail, that

is exactly what I have been doing.

I have been learning skill sets and insights and some very useful things.

In light of the change that I think is coming.

So I encourage you, my friend, just to take this, for what it's worth, I'm trying

not to be too vague, and I'm trying not to be too specific because I'm, I don't have

a crystal ball and I don't see everything.

But I think there's a lot to this quote in that when things change, if

you continue to do the same things and hold onto all the same beliefs,

it's not gonna go particularly well.

So the industrial revolution is a pretty good example of that,

was incredibly dislocating.

We saw all this child labor and all sorts of stuff, social problems that took place

and a relatively small number of people were able to flourish in that environment.

So you do get a vote here.

You do get a vote of which side of these changes you want to be on,

and I do care, and I just wanna put this message out there that

there's things you need to learn.

I don't know whether those are technological things, skill

sets, things around spirituality, health, but they're just.

Something significant is about to change over the next, what's the timeframe?

I genuinely would love to give you an answer to that, but I don't know,

other than as a student of history, what I am very attuned to here is

the pace of it, the speed at which it's moving, which means that I

don't think any of us are going to.

Miss out on some of these changes.

So I just want you to be prepared and I want you to be encouraged, and I'm

now trying to find a way to return this to being a motivational podcast.

But I guess it can be in the sense that, maybe that these challenges

are gonna force you to grow.

Maybe these challenges are gonna force you to become more, to grow, to do

more, to contribute more, to learn more, because it's gonna be challenging and

people are gonna need you to step up.

So that's it for today.

Let me know what you think.

Send me an email or post a comment if you want to, if

you've got questions about this.

But go and learn some stuff, or at least start asking the question,

what do you think might be useful?

What do you think might be useful to learn as the world around us changes so fast?

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