Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux
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Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux
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Tom Fletcher
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Tom Fletcher
About this listen
‘Original and thought provoking’ Gordon Brown
‘Challenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the future’ Valerie Amos
To thrive in the twenty-first century, we all need to understand the challenges coming our way. And start adapting, now.
We all know there are major, overlapping, global crises ahead of humanity: climate change, mass migration, new warfare, big tech, further pandemics, authoritarian capitalism. Rather than be daunted, this book charts a way that we can respond. With expertise from his work at the highest levels of international politics, education, activism and business, Tom Fletcher offers a practical manifesto that can help us transform the way we learn, live, and work together.
Amongst its key survival skills, this book offers ideas on how we renew education, restore society and reimagine the future. It helps us chart a course to take back control, to find purpose, and to become better ancestors. It helps us to learn the language of technology – without thinking like computers. It offers 39 steps that each of us can start to take today to boost our survivability.
Vital, practical and accessible, this is a book about how we can anticipate the threats and opportunities of tomorrow and be ready for them – individually and collectively.
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Critic reviews
‘This manual for humanity is a call to action for all of us. Read it, learn from it, act aggressively and uncompromisingly upon it, let it guide the rest of your life’s work’
General Sir Graeme Lamb, former SAS Commander
‘A scintillating humanifesto for creativity in how we learn. Inspiration not just for parents and teachers, but all of us’
Andria Zafirakou, Global Teacher of the Year 2018 and author of Those Who Can, Teach
‘Global education has found a champion. Future generations have found a spokesperson’
Andreas Schleicher, OECD
‘A magnificent book! As we (anxiously) anticipate the rest of this century, Tom Fletcher presents us with a brilliantly-timed, incredibly important, gem of a book — overflowing with wisdom and much hope too’
Zeid Ra’ad, UN Commissioner for Human Rights
‘An excellent handbook on how to coexist not just with each other, but with technology too’
Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of Google DeepMind
‘The international community needed a call to action. This is a must read for the inventors, dreamers and pioneers of our future’
Dubai Abulhoul, Founder of the Fiker Institute
‘Brilliant, an absolute must-read. A riveting, superbly written account of the world today, and tomorrow’
Matthew D’Ancona, author of Post-Truth
‘A fascinating and inspiring analysis of how the world is changing and education needs to keep up’
Rachel Sylvester, The Times
‘His hints, tips, advice, comments and things-you-and-I-can-do-today to bring about change are so frequent that I lost count. Not 10 ideas, not even 57, but countless … A provocative and hugely thoughtful compendium of positive and realistic thinking to navigate an increasingly difficult world’
Gavin Esler, The National
Readers of any age will get a lot out of this book. The author’s audiobook performance is energetic and genuine. Very much recommend!
Superb manual for life!
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It is "not just mastery of new tools" Tom says, "but mastery of a new mind set."
Having spent time in Afghanistan, with those children living in the most dire of circumstances, with no hope of an education yet retaining the dream of one, and likewise having spent time with Western children, to discern directly what they are missing from from their education, Tom has mapped out and launched a mission to redress an education system which has long needed redress, to involve the learners in their learning, to teach the children the practical, non-academic skills they need to succeed in life, which the current curriculum simply fails to teach. "How do we co-exist as global citizens?" "How do we build bridges in a world of walls?" "How do we become Internationalists in a time of nationalism?"
Simply put, Tom raises some home truths that need to be raised, if there is to be any hope for our children and the next generation beside them to have a life with any security, resilience or peace.
"The 20th century model of progression will be obsolete and a single career rare".
Tom warns: "A third of the skills workers need will be obsolete by 2030."
Teach the children "global competencies, rather than lists of wars previously won."
"No previous generation needed to be so aware of the vicariousness of their chosen vocation or the turbulence of a world in flux." Many occupations will simply no longer exist. Therefore the outdated practices of our current education system and its narrow focus, needs revolution.
Each chapter of this book is a poignant reminder of the fragility of our current state of being, the breadth of systematic inequality and injustice in global education and the need to better this state of being for our children. To obliterate racism and barriers. To embrace change and to adapt with it. "Those who adapt fastest will win".
"The starting point has to be a better understanding of what lies ahead."
Read this book. Then read it again. Start your journey to becoming a better ancestor.
Narrated by Tom Fletcher himself. An excellent speaker. His in-person talks are both motivational and inspiring, should you ever have the opportunity to experience one.
Can we get better at living together?
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