Lynda Gratton: How to be ready for your future, now

TEDxLondonBusinessSchool 2012
Lynda Gratton: How to be ready for your future, now (script)
Summary
The speaker said that from now on, your generation will have more surprising experiences than that of the Masai warrior haveing a mobile phone. It's because many things are changing beyond imagination. The transformation is bigger than industrial revolution. It's the biggest one ever. There's no question that we will face some tough things in the near future. You can keep going to your future without predictive. It means that you can't really find the time within your life that allows you to be reflective and to be thoughtful. Technology might interrupt you. It will lead to isolation, even if you try to solve some problems. However, you can think of what will happen in your lives over the next couple of years, and you can shift and change your thoughts, your ways, and your action. The speaker suggests three shifts to us. First, it is to build mastery in the field that you love. It'll be needed more than that of a generalist. Second, it is necessary not only to compete but also to cooperate and collaborate in building value. And finally, you have to find the meaning to work without making money. In the future, work itself has to be a place where you can use your creativity and possibilities, and where it is meaningful for you.  And then she also said in anther book I've read. Next generation, you will live longer for 100 years. It means that you have a lot of time if you prepare for it. You can get it as gift.
Why you can't be excited it? This is why there are three shifts that she suggests. Especially, Japanese people say that they don't want to live longer and don't want to work anymore though you can use three shifts and you can find new and diverse ways to live.
Words in this story
ritual / a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order.
implication / inclusion
inquisitive  / curious
transformation /  change, alteration, mutation