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You Can’t Learn Everything: How to Choose What to Learn
Employment is a phase, not a destination. Here’s how to choose what to learn when your goal is the market.
How I wrote this: the ideas, stories, and words are mine. AI helped me edit the English, the way an editor would.
A few years ago, over coffee, a colleague told me: “I work nonstop. I like my job. But there’s something unfair: even if I worked 24 hours a day, I couldn’t earn much more than I do. I have no way to grow just by doing my job. I would have to become a manager, take on more responsibility, and so on. But I want to get rich by leveraging my work: doing it once and selling it 100 times, 1,000 times, a million times.”
The Learning Strategist grew out of that conversation and starts from one precise conviction. Before I talk about skills, I want to state it plainly.
Employment is a phase, not a destination: this is my view. You have a contract to honor, and you honor it well, because the skill you bring every day is your reputation. But the goal that gives meaning to every hour of study is a different one: to sell your work directly to the market, as a freelancer or with a company of your own.
