Ideas for Being a Life Long Learner in the 21st Century

I recently chatted with popular career advice columnist Penelope Trunk about how our generation can compete with the tech-savvy young people of today (known as Gen Z - born between 1995 and 2010) when it comes to lifelong learning. What Trunk really wants to know is how she can keep up with her own kids :-)  

Trunk with her son in cello class that she drives four hours to get him to and from.

Trunk believes that the biggest impact Generation Z will have on the workplace is in their schooling. I believe this is accurate only if they are afforded the kind of schooling Trunk is providing to her children which relies very little on learning in an actual school building and much more on learning at her farm and through classes they choose to take outside of school by experts like the Suzuki cello camp in which her youngest is currently enrolled. Trunk says her children’s generation will have a more creative, independent way of learning that does not stop at college, but rather, picks up pace remarkably after college, when real experiential learning starts happening. 

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