If you believe the World Economic Forum future of jobs data analysis, over 40% of our skills every five years will need to be re-learned or

reskilled partly because of AI. That is a shockingly high number.

That means that you're going to have to effectively reinvent yourself

many times over the course of your career.

So the job to really have is one which encourages you to always be curious and be willing to learn new things.

In the world of 20 jobs and seven careers where you've got to really invest in your own personal development. That's important.

That's a sheshadvani. He's the CEO of Junior Achievement Worldwide, which is a Nobel Prize-nominated

nonprofit that's dedicated to preparing youth for employment and entrepreneurship. Together with Marshall Goldsmith, he authored the book Modern Achievement, A New Approach to Timeless Lessons for Aspiring Leaders,

And we're about to hear about said approach. So you'll learn one, why our idea of achievement needs a rework?

Two, why to befriend both older and younger people, and three, an underutilized

tactic for dramatically selling your career learning.

I'm Piedmekitis, this is how to be awesome at your job, and now here's a sheeshish.

Ashish, welcome. It's great to be on the show.

Well I'm so excited to hear about your wisdom.

Can you kick us off by sharing a particularly surprising

or fascinating or counterintuitive bit

you discovered while putting together your book,

Modern Achievement?

So I've been at this trying to make this a high quality very

readable book for several months now and I really thought I was writing it for a

younger audience aspiring leaders you know people in their 20s and early 30s who are at the beginning

of their career. What I've learned now that people have started to read the book is when you write a book for a certain audience and another audience

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