Why should someone always expand and continuously update his/her knowledge?

In the present world, gaining information is not a big deal. We can just type and search what we want to know and hundreds, thousands or even millions of results are available for us to get to the answer.

Today, the rate at which things are changing and updating is much faster than it has ever been. For example, the world’s first computer was invented by Charles Babbage in the year 1822, exactly 199 years ago from 2021. At that time, the computer was pretty basic and did very basic things, like sums and differences of numbers. But computers today, can do anything from playing games to create huge machines that can outrun manpower. This was not even a concept when Babbage had invented the computer.

In the future, who knows, there can be hundreds or even thousands of different changes and updated versions of computers that can be hundreds of times powerful than the computers we have in the present. After the invention of computers, the changes started to be much faster; that is, the things that were expected to change in ten years changed in a year or two. And in the future, it may be the case that the things that will change in a year or two, might change in just a few days.

Our world in the present and the coming world needs people who have a lot of knowledge and multiple skills, which means that in the future, corporations will require employees that can do the work of five people, not five employees who do the work of one person. In order to do that, the employee needs to have multiple skills that will aid him to do much more than one person could do.

If you look at most people around, they have the habit of resisting change rather than overcoming it. This is an observation you can observe, even in yourself. If you want to do something in life, then you have to overcome this habit of yourself so that you can overcome change, rather than resisting it. Robert Kiyosaki, in his book “Rich Dad Poor Dad” tells us that we must learn to manage risk, rather than avoiding or resisting it. A change can also be a risk to us. We must learn to manage and overcome this risk and this change rather than resisting it or running away from it.

So the present and the future requires people who have the habit of learning new things, and who are always curious to learn something new. They are always ready for everything, and this alertness of theirs prove to be their plus point. On the other hand, many people fail to realise its importance and remain stiff against change. The force at which change pushes us is the hardest force. No other force can overcome the force of change. So if you are willing to resist change, then you got to keep in mind that no matter what you do, you won’t be able to stop or slow it down.

People today need to be curious and creative. Curiosity will make them find out more things and creativity will help them to create more things. As a result, the bar of change will keep going up and up and we will be in sync with change.

Use the internet and its resources to expand your knowledge more and more. This will help you to obtain multiple skills which will aid you to succeed in the future.