Can we learn to be intelligent? — What’s The Future of Work?

Many great takeaways from this one:

Belief systems are contagious.

…and…

Success in life has been seen governed by two concepts: skills and effort; how bright you are and how hard you work. Recently, researchers have claimed that there is a third and decisive concept. It is the practice of lifelong curiosity: “knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do” as Piaget put it.

…as well as…

But learning itself has changed, it is not first acquiring skills and then utilizing those skills at work. Post-industrial work is learning. It is figuring out how to solve a particular problem and then scaling up the solution in a reflective and iterative way — both with technology and with other people.

A very thoughtful and incisive look at intelligence and the post-industrial age.