Future Workers – Creative, Adaptable, Problem-Explorers

Invigorating talk “Future of Human Potential” by Vivienne Ming, PhD in NeuroScience & Psychology from Carnegie Mellon, Entrepreneur, Speaker.

Here are my takeaways from this presentation:

  • The best performers on any job are those that do the job because of the pure joy they derive from it. For these folks, incentives are not the driving force.
  • “Explorers” is what the society needs and will value as AI and automation become more pervasive over the coming years. The Meta-Learning slide below shows the 50 characteristics of Explorers.

The hilarious part is at 11:24-12:08: “If you really want to understand. I mean actually everything I’m gonna say about the future (of) work doesn’t matter, this is what’s really important. After a whole session here of innovation and exponential technologies, if you can appreciate that tens of millions of dollars of CIA funding, two dozen dissertations, 20 years of research distilled down into animating cats on your phone, then you (y’all) truly understand (that) all innovation ends up being animated cats on phones. It’s just a fundamental reality. …”