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Intellectual complacency

Just as we have minimum recommended dosages of vitamins and minutes of exercise for maintaining physical health, we should understand that we also have to be rigorous about the minimum dose of deliberate learning that will maintain our economic health.

Those who do not keep learning will be left behind, stuck in a job, or unemployed.

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