Learn-it-all will always do better than the know-it all – investing in our ability to learn, unlearn, and relearn will be vital for long term success.
Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, shared that when assessing founders of potential investments, he looks for individuals who have an “infinite learning curve”: someone who is constantly learning, and quickly.
Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, echoed the importance of learning when he said, “The learn-it-all will always do better than the know-it all.”
Satya Nadella’s “learn-it-all will always do better than the know-it” really resonates with me, but one of my favourites (whilst a little rude) is from Albert Einstein who said
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand”.
Understanding of course comes from learning and not simply acquiring new knowledge.
In our volatile, complex, uncertain, and ambiguous world, where innovation can change the status-quo quickly, we can’t predict what the future of work will look like.
We can however predict it will change, and the need to continuously learn.
Perhaps why the Learning and Development market is worth $400 billion.
