From the course: How to Create a Career You Love

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Learn new skills for career growth

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- The first piece of the LEARN Strategy is learning new skills to advance your career. And today, more than ever, it is critical that you are always learning and growing. There is data out there that says knowledge worker skills become outdated every three to five months, which is astounding. But no matter the rate, we know for sure that if you're not growing, learning, challenging yourself, you're becoming obsolete. And here's what's so great about learning. Number one, you're in control of it. You don't have to wait on anyone else to give you an opportunity to learn a new skill. And number two, you can learn almost anything for free or almost free. When I think back to my days of growing up in corporate America, I remember that I asked my boss once to go to a conference in Austin, Texas for three days on affordable housing. The conference cost $3,000, in addition to flights and hotel and per diem. It sounds insane…

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