The Most Important High-Value Skills to Learn (starting today)

4 skills, and a new scarce resource, to help survive against what's coming. You need to learn how to learn so you can learn how to think. If you can think, you can formalize your thinking through writing. If you can write persuasively and truthfully, online, you can share what you know with people 1-3 steps behind you, struggling with problems you yourself have overcome with your own proof and unique knowledge. And if you share your unique knowledge online, you will make more mistakes than writing about it offline, and thus learn from those mistakes faster, and iterate toward whatever your definition of success may be faster too. ––– Links ––– Read my weekly essays on my philosophical (yet practical) ideas: https://ideas.profoundideas.com/ Learn to write long-form essays/content like this one (free mini-course): https://stan.store/profoundideas/p/mi... Eden - where I research and write my essays: https://eden.so/ Listen to this essay on my Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/06Dx... ––– Products/Paid Guides––– The Profound Self-Education Guide: https://stan.store/profoundideas/p/pr... A Guide To Profound Reading: https://stan.store/profoundideas/p/a-... Writing strategies on how I write long-form (Substack): https://ideas.profoundideas.com/t/wri... Learning strategies to improve your encoding and retrieval skills (also Substack): https://ideas.profoundideas.com/t/lea... ––– Chapters ––– 00:00 Yes, information is commoditized now 00:51 Wisdom is the new scarce resource 03:24 Skill 1 - Learning 11:58 Skill 2 - Thinking 15:43 Skill 3 - Writing 24:43 Skill 4 - Sharing 31:14 A meaning economy is (finally) emerging