If you can spend time to improve your communication, improve your salesmanship,

you will be on a path where you can always articulate yourself better,

not only in the workplace, in your personal life and with yourself.

I am Vision Laciani, founder of Mind Dali, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Dali podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers

and thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth

of my body, spirit and work.

I've had a chance to interview so many people and I've been able to bucket what are the

major categories that really make a difference over the long term.

Now, I can only think back of when I started college and I went to the University of Ottawa,

which is a great school and I went to management school. And what was very interesting is that we

had a series of classes which were all about preparing us for the future. I have to admit,

I don't think I recall most of the classes, but there's one that stands out.

Not necessarily because it was the most interesting, but I feel like it was the one that quickly

became obsolete so fast and I feel like you might relate to this. We were brought into a computer

engineering class. I was in business school and they're like, hey, anybody who's going into business

should understand programming at a basic level. And then they all made us learn this new language

that we could use to program and this learning this language would allow us to be able to code things

and be able to be developers or stuff at least at an introductory level. Well, interestingly enough,

that language they made us work with was called visual basic. I'll spare you the details,

but if any of you are techies would know that this is a language of programming that is not used

very much in the world today. And I find this is really what happens whenever we're trying to upgrade

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