World Economists Say You Need To Learn This Skill By 2026

Anyone can learn this skill, that’s the good news

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The World Economic Forum’s Third Annual Future of Jobs Report says that 50% of all employees will have to be reskilled by 2026 or risk misplacement.

Why?

Advances in automation and technology are certainly contributing factors (per usual), but the economic impacts of COVID has ramped up the mayhem. Judgment cometh and that right soon.

Yikes! So what must we do World Economic Forum? Learn to code? Build Tesla batteries? TikTok dances?

Not exactly, though I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt.

According to the Forum, critical thinking and problem solving will top the list of skills required in the future. You heard that right. Learning how to ramble around a plaza like Socrates will be the most valuable skill by 2026.

“scio me nihil scire,” I know that I know nothing.

What is critical thinking?

Critical thinking is about “carefully analyzing, processing, and making sense of information.” The ability to choose not with intuition but through absorbing all bits of data and looking at a problem from multiple perspectives. Basically, the plot of the movie Moneyball.