A flat world requires you to learn how to learn
Thomas Friedman's book The World is Flat makes the case for why we need to “learn how to learn”:
“Being adaptable in a flat world, knowing how to “learn how to learn,” will be one of the most important assets any worker can have, because job churn will come faster, because innovation will happen faster.”
Here is a recording from C-SPAN of him speaking about the book: link

