So, as technology is now increasing at a huge exponential rate, and it's getting faster and faster, we can see you know, entire things changing entire industries are coming from nowhere to being full blown and, you know, deployed to millions of people in the space of a few years. And education, just like government and businesses cannot keep up with this. And this is why we're starting to see the concept of continuous learning really sort of come into play here. Now, previously, you had your high school and your, you know, university level and that would be it. Now, with continuous learning, you still have those, you know, high school and college or university levels, but from there you continue to learn year after year after year. So if you're, for instance, a computer programmer and you graduated Maybe 10 years ago, since that 10 year mark, you know, computer programming has changed drastically.

And I would expect that if you're a programmer that graduated 10 years ago, over that time, you've studied the technology you've passed on courses, you've perhaps fiddled with it at home or maybe as part of your job. And you've kept up to speed with those technologies, the new programming languages that have come out the ways that the existing ones have changed and adapted each year. Because for computer programmers, this is a very common scenario. This is just part of the job of what they do, that continuous learning has been part of their job pretty much since it started. However, for most other industries, this continuous learning idea is not really part of it. They have the, you know, maybe civil engineering or something like that, and that'll be their degree.

And they might do a few courses here and there, but it's not really embraced to the degree that It might be in something like computer programming. Now, this continuous learning is not only good because it keeps you informed of what's happening. But it makes you very desirable to employers who want to continue to employ people, they obviously want the latest and the greatest, just like when technology is involved. So if you are fully up to speed with all the, you know, programming language, and what it's capable of, you will be a much more desirable candidate than someone who's just graduated and doesn't really know that much about it. And this applies for businesses as well and other industries as well. You know, if you're in say, retail, for example, you might not have this idea of continuous learning sort of baked into the industry as much as computer programming does.

So if you're in retail, as I said, for an example, how much do you know about things like Apple Pay or Google pay or the mobile pay Systems and how they affect you in Now your consumers use that new technology to continue to purchase your products. Has it had an effect on you? What about online only retailers? Do you know that that technology? And have you tried to integrate that into your company? Or do you just ignore it because it's some new thing called technology.

All these sorts of things are very important. And, you know, if you're, for instance, a restaurant and you totally ignore the possibility of something like Uber Eats or Fedora, where they will pick up your restaurant food and deliver it to consumers, you might be missing out on a huge new market of potential clients and customers, simply because you're just not aware of the technology and you don't really want to sort of learn about it. As such, you really must embrace this sort of continuous learning mantra. Even if you're not in an industry that has already been doing it for years. Even if you don't think that applies to you. You really need to be reading up and investigating these new types of technologies that are specific to your industry and even some that aren't, you need to be learning about what they can do you know what industries they apply to, in some cases, if they're important enough, you might want to actually get that technology, take it home with you and actually start using it so that you can not only better understand the technology and how it's used by perhaps your customers or your other, you know, businesses that might be trying to compete with you.

But you also get to learn the pros and cons of the actual technology and you know why you might use it in one scenario versus not using it in another scenario, it can better help you just understand the technology in general. Now, a lot of people say that, you know, they don't have time to do this. They're already so busy running around doing everything else. Investigating new technologies is you know, such a time consuming thing. It can be sometimes and I do agree with that. But the thing is, if you don't investigate The new technology if you don't keep up to speed with your industry and technology, you risk sort of becoming that old person that just doesn't keep up with technology.

And, you know, no one really wants to be around because they're old and slow and do things the weird way, you know, you know, the type of person I'm talking about the person that, you know, still uses Internet Explorer six, instead of using Chrome or Firefox or something like that. They'll still have a flip phone instead of moving to smartphones, because they can't be bothered working out the new technology or, you know, maybe they'll they'll be that person that keeps calling people and leaving messages like, Oh, hi. You know, it's john, I've called you call me back, because they don't understand the concept that caller ID is a thing now and they don't need to leave useless messages like that, you know, I've even heard cases where, and this is true, users actually rewind DVDs that they've rented so that it's at the start for the next people that are hired.

You know, these people, they don't worry about that new technology they don't ever investigated, they don't ever use it or read up about it and learn about it. And thus, they just end up getting more and more progressively out of date. And that is the risk that you run. If you sort of have it in the back of your mind that you're too busy that you don't have enough time to check out this new technology, whatever it might be, whether it's drones or AI, or, you know, solar or whatever it might be. That's the kind of risk that you run five or 10 years from now being that person and as I said, No one wants to be around that person. They're often fast, slower, or doing whatever it is that they're supposed to be doing than anyone else.

And it's just eternally frustrating trying to get anything done with them. The other side of the coin is that while it does indeed, as I said, Take time to investigate and understand these types of technologies. upside is that often new technology is solely developed to either make things easier, quicker or cheaper, or maybe all three. So although you know, you might spend a week, you know, understanding a new technology, trying it out at home learning its pros and cons and you know, really getting a good understanding of it, and you've sort of spent a week of your precious time doing that, that might enable you to get a 20 or 30% efficiency improvement in whatever it is you're doing. You know, your actual business owner, that means might mean 20 or 30% more profit or having to, you know, pay someone 20 or 30% less time, which is more money for you.

If you don't own a business and you're an employee employee. This could mean doing your own job 20 or 30% more efficiently, or perhaps even opening up something completely new. impressing your boss possibly getting a raise. Lots and lots of good outcomes calm from doing this investigation, so I can't recommend it enough this continuous learning whether it's doing the investigation yourself, or doing these smaller online courses to really try and get your skills up, be aware of what the actual new technology is, you know, getting that good information and not being that old person that gets left behind with the technology. Now, there's the sort of rare case sometimes where technology is actually so new and so advanced, I guess, that there are just no courses for it at all, whether it's the university level or even on somewhere like Udemy or Skillshare. And we'll be talking about this in the next part.

So I'll explain to you