The most important skill of the 21st century - 1 views
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The internet is still young, and it is still learning to organize itself. But until it does, the most important skill in the 21st century will be the ability to rationally refine the sense-making apparatus of our mind.
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The first is to do the work to figure out which information should be consumed and which should be discarded — consciously, beyond our personal biases, and ideally, from as many diverse perspectives as possible; the second is to just step away from it all to simply think about what is consumed and how it all connects.
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If we don’t effectively use our tools, our tools end up using us. In the 21st century, the difference will be determined by how we manage information.