Chapter 7 World is Flat

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Chapter 7 World is Flat

• The Right Stuff

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Five different skill sets that will be vital
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Learning how to learn

• Enjoying learning
• Being a self teacher

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Navigation

• Encyclopedia vs. Wikipedia
• Being able to separate what is true and what is
  junk on the Internet.

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CQ PQ gt IQ

• Curiosity and passion quotient becoming more
  important than IQ
• Children with these traits are self-motivated to
  learn and discover new things.
• Nobody works harder at learning than a curious
  kid.
• Reasons for Hire Teachers

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Liberal Arts

• Before you can connect the dots, you need dots
  to connect.
• Liberal Arts are the dot creators
• Necessity for Innovation

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Right Brain

• Left Brain Activities Activities more likely to
  be outsourced.
• Right Brain Context, emotional expression, and
  synthesis.
• Thinking Conceptually and Horizontally.

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Tubas and Test Tubes

• Using one field of thought to help innovate in
  another.
• Georgia Institute of Technologys admission
  strategy

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The Right Country

• Is America well set to prepare the next
  generation for these jobs?

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Answer is Yes

• Reasons
• America has a relatively flexible, free market
  economy.
• Institutional strength
• Capital Market Strength
• Best-regulated and most efficient capital markets

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Contd

• Intellectual Property Protection
• Flexible Labor Laws
• Largest domestic consumer market
• Political stability

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Basis of all of this is Trust

• The underlying theme to all this is trust. Trust
  is what has allowed America to mix together
  institutions, laws, and cultural norms. Add
  innovation and collaboration to trust and we have
  a renewable economy which is able to constantly
  raise the standard of living. Nothing in the
  flat world cannot be handled by America, as long
  as we roll up our sleeves, educate our young
  people the right way, and tend to and enrich the
  secrets of the sauce.