Book Titles

The fact is that when humans and computers work together and cooperate, the rewards flow more readily to top talent, not to the socially well connected.

Machine intelligence is the friend of the educational parvenu, albeit the disciplined, gutsy parvenu with high IQ.

…in the longer run, professors will need to become more like motivation coaches and missionaries. The best professors have understood this for years…

…much of current education is driven by human weakness, namely the inability of most students to simply sit down and try to learn something on their own.

Let’s treat professors more like athletics coaches, personal therapists, and preachers, because that is what they will evolve to be.

Especially charismatic teachers will surely have their place – and probably a very well-paid place – in the new world of work.

It’s an open debate how much education can boost innate aptitude or IQ, but the trait of ‘conscientiousness’ does consistently predict education and job success and also subjective happiness.

Expert coaching or motivating will become a competitive growth sector for jobs.

Coaching is already remarkably important in our economy, and the high productivity of top earners will cause it to become essential.

High-skilled performance, including business executives, will have some kind of coach. There will be too much value at stake…