What If Soft Skills Are the Most Future-Proof Career Asset?

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What If Soft Skills Are the Most Future-Proof Career Asset?
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As AI reshapes the workforce, soft skills are emerging as essential. Here's why the future may favor creative thinkers over coders in the new era of AI and jobs.

Learn to code.” Remember that rallying cry?. Pundits suggested truckers would soon be out of work. This prompted commentators to suggest drivers, cashiers, and warehouse staff learn coding to stay vocationally relevant.

Recognizing this shifting reality, here's an interesting twist worth exploring: what if the AI Age flips our assumptions about what’s considered “safe” as a career path? After all, now that AI can do so many of the left-brained activities once considered future-proof, what if right brain activities, those once decried as fluffy and superfluous are suddenly in demand?

To understand our present it’s helpful to consider our past. Reflecting on the last two centuries, it’s plain to see the marketplace has prized abilities machines possess over humans. Whether we’re talking about industrial farming or assembly line automobile production, value—and therefore revenue—has been entangled with rote activities best completed via automation.

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