What educational achievements and skills are necessary in today’s world

In the era of high technologies and automation of a significant number of familiar processes to remain in demand as a specialist, new skills and abilities are required. I believe that one of the most important and necessary human skills is adaptation. We live in a world that is constantly changing, and this process is unlikely to slow down in the future. The skills, knowledge and connections that were important yesterday may well be worth nothing tomorrow. Therefore, the ability to change and adapt to new conditions is an extremely important skill. Most companies will need the people they have to stay relevant.

Darwin also said that it is not the strongest or the smartest that survives, but the one who adapts best to change. This ability to adapt, improvise and change strategy depending on the problem gives the person an advantage over the computer.

As futurologist Alvin Toffler said, in the 21st century, illiterate will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. Real learning begins with your career. It requires you to constantly acquire new knowledge, and in the process you will have to repeatedly abandon obsolete methods.

I also believe that the ability to conceptualize, analyze and apply information is an extremely important skill. After all, in order to make decisions and cope with problems, you need to collect reliable data, evaluate it and choose the most appropriate option for a specific situation. Anyone who can look at a problem from different angles often finds an unexpectedly elegant solution, while simultaneously showing how narrowly others have looked at the issue.

This requires both critical and creative thinking. According to the philosopher Francis Bacon, critical thinking is the desire to seek and the patience to test. It presupposes a refusal to hasty in passing sentences and caution in their execution, as well as hatred of any kind of deception. Creative thinking, on the other hand, is based on ingenuity and the ability to find new ways to accomplish old tasks.