Why do you need to 5 hours per week to spend on training

Entrepreneur and author Michael Simmons (Michael Simmons) I told the conclusions of the scientists and their own experience, and shared useful tips.

Why is it important to learn

Our knowledge becomes obsolete every day

Mathematician Samuel Abersman (Samuel Arbesman) in his book "The half-life scientific facts" (The Half-Life of Facts) Writes: "The totality of the facts also have half-lives. We can measure the time it takes for half of domain knowledge has been disproved. "

For example, if you have liver problems, and you get to see a doctor, get an education more than 45 years ago, about half of his knowledge, most likely, wrong.

we do not feel in everyday life, that knowledge becomes obsolete. But think about the following facts:

• It opened in 201785 new species described by the California Academy of Sciences in 2017 85 new species of plants and animals. In this case, scientists believe that we only have yet to open 90% of the species of living beings. According to some reportsScaling laws predict global microbial diversity
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  While science knows only one thousandth of a percent of all microorganisms.
• If you have studied psychology in 2010, you would be sure to read the hundreds of basic research. In 2015, scientists have repeated them and the results are confirmedEstimating the reproducibility of psychological science less than half the time!
• Not so long ago smoking was considered useful and even advertisedOutrageous vintage cigarette ads doctors.
• In the 1980s it was thought that the bacon, butter and eggs - three of the most harmful products for the heart. Now opinion has changed.

In the 1970s, new studies have appeared in the field of information science, which determined the half-life of knowledge. It is measured on the basis of that, after some time cease to quote the above average academic performance. The data are taken from the book "The half-life scientific facts":

But if in medicine or chemistry basic knowledge changes relatively slowly, in important new areas today, this process is much faster. Among them:

• artificial Intelligence;
• Application Development;
• development of unmanned vehicle projects;
• cloud computing;
• social networks management;
• creating content on YouTube;
• creature online courses.

15 years ago, the majority of jobs in these areas did not even exist. The business school says that you need to spend hundreds of hours to create a detailed business plan. Now entrepreneurs are advised to do it does not constitute, and to focus on dealing with customers and apply the principles of lean startup.

15 years ago, online publications were in addition to print magazines and newspapers. Now everything is exactly the opposite.

According toMind the (Skills) Gap Harvard scientists, the skills learned at the university, are still valid only for five years. On the obsolescence of knowledge is influenced by:

• The amount of information about the world and ourselves is growing exponentially. With the advent of the internet of things, more precise measuring tools and online tracking scientists get more data and the capacity to deduce from them the scientific facts.
• The number of scientists in the world is growing rapidly.
• The number of people who create ideas and share them, too, is growing. 30 years ago, this was done only to scientists and intellectuals. With the advent of social networks, millions of ordinary people can regularly share their experiences.
• We can do more and more complex calculations. In accordance with Moore's law the number of calculations per second increases. Each step forward helps us better understand the world and to solve problems that previously seemed insoluble.
• In accordance with this law and develop scientific instruments. This further accelerates scientific progress.

Your competitors are constantly learning new things

According toGlobal Rise of Education Research site Our World In Data, srednestatistchesky resident of a developed society in the last two hundred years, more and more time is spent on learning in formal educational institutions.

For example, in the United States from 1940 until the present time the number of people with higher education has increased in eightPercentage of the U.S. population who have completed four years of college or more from 1940 to 2017, by gender time. And in China from 1997 to 2017 their number has increased almost tenInside the world's largest higher education boom time.

A similar situation was observed with non-formal learning. With podcasts, videos, articles, games, and online courses, you can learn just about anything for free.

In such a situation, when your competitors are constantly learning new things, you also need to do it. If you stand still, others will leave you far behind. If the work you are doing a long one and the same, you may not notice that your skills are out of date. Usually, people find it when moving in a new realm or return to work after a break.

Why do you need to learn is 5 hours per week

Four-year university studies includeHow many transcripts, or credit, you need to dial watch American college student? an average of about 6000 hours of study. Let us for convenience, we shall assume that the development of the profession takes 5000 hours. With every minute the knowledge you have received a little bit out of date, that is gradually becoming less valuable.

We can safely assume that in 10 years, half of the knowledge in any field is refuted or supplemented. That is 50% of obsolete data. Now let's see how it will affect the 5000 hours that you spend on training:

If distributed evenly training, need to deal with 5 hours per week, 50 weeks a year, just to stay abreast of the current situation.

How to do this without rearranging your schedule

You probably think that you do not have five additional hours per week. Taking into account work, family, health and care of various duties, carve them seems impossible. But you do not have to change your routine. Add training to the free space in the current chart. Thanks to video, podcasts, and audiobooks can learn while doing other things. Here are a few examples:

• The road to work (on average by up to two hours per day).
• Jogging and walking.
• Communication (discuss with others is what learning to better remember information and to learn something new).
• Cooking and time that is spent on food.
• Cleaning or gardening.

Think about where else throughout your day hiding such opportunities. If you need to learn complex material, select the environments in which will be able to fully focus on the information.

Everyone knows that in order to maintain health it is necessary to obtain a certain amount of nutrients and take a certain number of steps per day. But few people think that in order to maintain the economic well-being should be regularly to learn new things.

Without constant training, you can get stuck on the uninteresting work, or even to remain idle. Recent studies confirmThe Far-Reaching Impact of Job Loss and UnemploymentThat the loss of a job affects not only the life of the man himself, but also the lives of his children.

Unemployment leaves a noticeable economic, psychological and even physical impact. Its influence is as real as the effect of a poor diet, lack of sleep and a sedentary lifestyle.

Therefore, cut out for one hour five days a week, and gradually training will become a habit.