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Professor Ed Hess discusses the importance of becoming Hyper-Learners to stay relevant in the rapidly changing workplace.

Send us Fan Mail The Digital Age will raise the question of how we humans will stay relevant in the workplace. To stay relevant, we have to be able to excel cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally in ways that technology can't. Professor Ed Hess believes that requires us to become Hyper-Learners: continuously learning, unlearning, and relearning at the speed of change. To do that, we have to overcome our reflexive ways of being: seeking confirmation of what we believe, emotionally defendi...

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Host: Matt Brown

Guest: Edward D. Hess

Topics covered

• Hyper Learning
• Adaptation
• Workplace Relevance
• Cognitive Skills
• Emotional Intelligence

Keywords

• Hyper Learning
• Adaptation
• Cognitive Skills
• Emotional Intelligence
• Continuous Learning

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