These 3 Things Will Stop AI From Taking Your Job

Matt Wolfe says three habits protect your career from AI: love learning, build real projects and code, and develop strong social skills. AI accelerates what you do, but you have to start.
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My daughter is 13. She'll be in high school in about a year and a half. I really don't know what the job market is going to look like in the future. The best advice I think I can give is to be really good at learning. I remember hearing Tim Ferriss once say that among all of the most successful people he's ever had on his podcast, there was one trait that separated the really successful people from the less successful people, and that was the trait that they all just love to learn. I also think it's important to go out and test things and build real things. Companies these days, they're looking for people with real-world skills that have actually built stuff. And if you go and use AI and actually build stuff, like, learn to actually code yourself so you can understand what the AI wrote. That's what gets you further in the real world. I also think it's important to develop social skills. I think that's an area where younger generations might actually struggle because more and more people are isolating themselves. You've got more and more kids hanging out at home just playing video games all the time or finding companionship through a screen instead of through real-life interactions. And people that are actually out there networking and getting to know other human beings and building connections and relationships are the people that are going to continue to succeed. AI can be an accelerant to all that. It can help you learn faster, it can help you build faster, it can even give you tips and advice on how to be a better communicator and connector. But you still have to be the person that goes and does those things. Now, whether that means you should go to college or not, I think that's really going to be dependent on like what career path you want to go down.
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