FBC – 478 – This WILL be the most precious skill after covid.. Here’s why

This WILL be the most precious skill after covid.. Here's why.

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Are you wondering what you should focus on to survive the COVID-19 crisis?

Let's face it, our economies will never be the same after this pandemic and if you want to survive, then you need to ADAPT.

Today, I am going to tell you about the one skill that I think you should have to come out on top.

I will explain why at the end of the episode (somewhere in the episode so no skipping)

Make sure to take advantage of the fantastic opportunity to get the skill that will make all the difference for you.

, It will allow you to take a week and a half off every single month, with only a few hours of work (done once)

, it will help you acquire a high-level skill that people will pay pounds of gold for

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I wanted to talk to you about automation and how little people know about automation and how I mean, it's fascinating to me, right? So, you know what? So I will explain because it can sound very like condescending or something. It's really not.

So, you know, you have a concept that's called the curse of knowledge. OK, so the curse of knowledge is when you have been doing something for so long that you will simply assume that everybody knows it.

And you forget how it was when you got started. OK, so I think I took this example recently of your first day at your job.

Do you remember that first day when you didn't know anything and everything was intimidating, it sounded complicated and all that kind of stuff. And well, slowly but surely you got some training and then you've worked at the company for so long that now everything is like second nature.

But the cycle continues. If someone joins your company, they will join in that same state that you were when you first joined. OK, you forget how it was. This is why you don't like teaching people stuff and being a coach and something like that. It’s really not easy.

And it can get very frustrating because you just think that people are idiots when in actual fact they're not. You were exactly the same when you started. So in addition to having a methodology or something like this, you also need a lot of patience.

So the reason why I'm saying this is because I have been doing automation for the longest time. OK, so I was talking to someone today and it was really funny because that person asked me about automation. This person has a physical business, OK? And they want to be able to work less on that business.

And, you know, by when you look at it, at first glance, it appears to be complicated because it involves involved and stuff. So he's trying to get out of it. And so I told him, you know what I do? This is what I do. I do a lot of things. I do this, I do that and all that kind of stuff, you know.

This WILL be the most precious skill after covid.. Here's why

How the hell do you know the stuff? You're not a millennial. How the hell do you know the stuff and all this like programming and everything? Because it looks like I'm programming stuff. I'm actually not right.

But it was funny because I told him, look. It's not a coincidence, because it's not luck, but it's just like two roads, two separate roads that will actually go the same way. And at some point they will just meet, you know, so you go left and then someone goes right. And in the end, since you're going the same way, it will meet at some point.

And this is what I told him. I said, look, I'm not a millennial. But what I have is a desire to make my life easier and that's what I'm doing. I'm trying to make my life easier and I'm trying to get stuff done without me.

So that means that I will stumble upon these things and I will try to apply these things in my life, not because of my age, but just because of my goal. My goal is that runs without me and that goal actually fuels me to go and actually look into that stuff that maybe you think only young people should know that.

There are a lot of things that we can automate for him, a lot of things. And it was it was funny because I've been in, like automation for so long that I just assumed that people knew that you can do some of these things.

So it was it was very interesting. But anyway, what I realized is people just assume that because they have a physical business and don't practice something like this, they cannot automate stuff. And it's wrong. You don't need to have an online business to be able to do automation.

Frequently Asked Questions

What skill matters most for entrepreneurs in the next decade?

The ability to learn fast and apply new tools immediately is the single most valuable skill for the next decade. AI changes the landscape every six months. Founders who can absorb a new tool in a weekend, ship something useful, and update their workflow stay ahead of those waiting for stability.

Why is learning speed more important than expertise now?

Expertise depreciates faster than ever because AI keeps redefining what humans actually need to know. A specialist in 2020 SEO is half-relevant in 2026 because of AI overviews and llm search. Fast learners absorb the new context and rebuild their stack in weeks while experts cling to outdated frameworks.

How do I train myself to learn faster?

Limit each new skill to one focused 30 day sprint, build something real on day one, and teach what you learn publicly by week two. Public teaching forces you to compress the lessons. Building forces application. The combination cuts the time from beginner to functional from one year down to about a month.

Which skills compound the most over time?

Writing, sales, systems thinking, and AI tool use compound the hardest because every other business skill leans on them. Writing carries every email and landing page. Sales drives revenue. Systems thinking turns one-off wins into machines. AI tool use multiplies every other skill by 5 to 10x in execution speed.

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The Skill That Survives Every Shift Is Learning How To Learn

Every crisis I have lived through rearranged which skills mattered overnight. That taught me not to bet on any single skill staying valuable. The one ability that never lost its worth was the capacity to learn fast and adapt, because the world keeps changing the rules. When entire industries got rewritten, the people who thrived were not the most specialized, they were the most adaptable, the ones who could pick up something new before the old thing stopped paying.

So stop optimizing only for what pays today and invest in becoming someone who learns quickly. Build the habit of learning in public, stay curious, and treat adaptability as your real career insurance. That is the one skill no downturn can make obsolete. I talk about why adaptability outlasts every trend on the Freedom by Choice podcast and in my own story. For the data, McKinsey has researched the skills that matter most as work changes, and Harvard Business Review has covered why the ability to learn beats any fixed expertise.