Career 2.0: The Nature and Requirements of the Potential Business Market right now!!

Technical development in general - and the emergence of the Internet and the ease of access to information in particular - have fundamentally changed the nature and definition of what we mean by "competition" between individuals.

In the past, competition was mainly conducted in a vertical direction. Your depth of knowledge and experience in a particular field gives you a competitive advantage over others working in the same field. Before the advent of the Internet, there was no quick way to transfer expertise, and therefore the knowledge gap could not be reduced quickly, and for this reason experience remained a strong competitive advantage.

But what about now?

Ease of access to information - and ease of communication with experienced individuals - made the process of reducing the difference in experience in a relatively short time easy, and thus knowledge depth is no longer a strong competitive advantage as it was before. By relying on appropriate resources, an individual can now reach a level equivalent to several years of experience in one year, if he deals with what he learns seriously and with discipline - with two lines under seriousness and discipline. After all, experience is nothing but what a person learns from his experiences and mistakes. Learning from other people's mistakes and experiences is definitely faster than waiting to fall into them to learn from them.

The other point is the change in the "boundaries" of the competition framework. The technological development that we have witnessed over the past few years has brought about an unprecedented convergence of disciplines, which has led to the disappearance of the traditional boundaries of the competition framework. It became natural to see a robotic engineer competing with a surgeon, an algorithm competing with a radiologist, and a FinTech programmer competing with a stock exchange trader!

For the previous reasons, the rivalry has moved to another dimension. Instead of vertical, the ability to move in a lateral direction has become the main competitive advantage, by which I mean the ability to learn and move between "different" disciplines, quickly. We have moved from an era of monolithic preference to an era of interdisciplinary preference.

Why have so many jobs disappeared - and will - disappear over the past few years - and the next - due to automation? What is the reason behind the growing fear of robots taking over people's jobs? The reason is that we have not yet come to terms with what happened. The current education and employment models still operate within a single discipline framework, so it is very natural to see what happens now. Technical development is not a demon; All there is is that we deal with its consequences slowly.

Intellectual flexibility and continuous learning .. these are the skills needed to survive in this new era. My personal belief is that anyone can learn anything at any age if the conditions of seriousness and discipline are in place. My personal belief also is that "IQ" is not a barrier, because intelligence is a variable relativistic property that rises and decreases according to the way you use your head. The only barrier that might stand in your way is a psychological one, nothing more, nothing less.

Try to force yourself to learn at least one thing that is completely different from your past background and from what you do (for example, learn to code). Once you can master that thing on your own, then you can be sure that the psychological barrier that scares you from the idea of ​​learning something new from scratch has gone forever.