I was a good student but a terrible learner. That’s how I would sum up my education.
By that I mean I studied by rote and got good grades as a result.
But I really don’t feel like I retained much.
Because being a good learner means ingesting and contextualising new information. Being curious and willingly confused.
Being a good student means regurgitating information in a way that makes assessment easy. Being conformist and certain.
It seems to me that workplaces are still caught in the trap of recruiting ‘good students’, when these are exactly the skills most likely to be outsourced. After all, AI excels at information recall and following established procedures.
👉 Instead we need to recruit for learners. Messy, challenging, questioning learners. Those who care less about the right answer, and more about the right question.
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