How the Disruption of Education Helps Lifelong Learners with Danny Iny
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Danny Iny left school in the 10th grade to become an entrepreneur. Years later he is the host of the Business Reimagined podcast, best-selling author of the book Leveraged Learning, as well as founder and CEO of Mirasee, a business education company. During our discussion, Danny paints a picture of how he got to where he is today, as well as use his story to shed light on how disrupting education helps those who are life-long learners.
You can get a copy of the book Leveraged Learning on Amazon or you can read the entire book for free at leveragedlearningbook.com
If you are either an expert with something to teach, a business leader or a lifelong learner, visit mirasee.com
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| 0:00.0 | So this shift from just in case to just in time is basically the idea that whereas in the past the emphasis was you're going to take a whole bunch of time studying things at the beginning of your career, |
| 0:13.6 | essentially in case you need it, which is problematic today for a number of reasons. |
| 0:19.3 | It's always been problematic because all the data shows that we tend not to remember much of it anyway. |
| 0:25.0 | And it's even more problematic because of the rate of change in the professional world. |
| 0:30.0 | Larry Summers, the former Dean of Harvard, is on record saying that everything you learn |
| 0:34.3 | is going to be obsolete in the next 10 years. |
| 0:36.3 | So the idea of spending years studying things |
| 0:38.8 | just in case when, A, it won't be relevant, |
| 0:42.2 | and B, you're not even going to remember it by the time you need it, that doesn't make sense. |
| 0:46.0 | And so what we're seeing is a transition of a lot less just in case education, and that's specifically in those contexts of foundational and last mile and a lot more actually education over a lifetime in that continuing education bucket where it's you know not you know taking a year or two years or four |
| 1:04.8 | years out of life to learn but rather you know it could be weeks or it could be |
| 1:09.7 | months and it's often concurrent with the rest of what's happening in life as you level up in the |
| 1:14.2 | specific ways that you need to be leveling up. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Sreeney Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and |
| 1:26.2 | insights of the most innovative and creative minds who've started movements, built thriving businesses, |
| 1:31.3 | written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
| 1:34.6 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable Creative.com. May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't |
| 1:56.4 | have to walk home in the rain again. |
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| 2:04.0 | If you could go back in time... |
| 2:06.0 | If you could go back in time... |
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