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Learners Inherit the Future: Grow Fast in Times of Epic Change
Episode 2710th October 2025 • The Daily Podcast with Jonathan Doyle • Jonathan Doyle
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We’re living through epoch-level change—tech upheaval, AI, culture shifts, new economics. In seasons like this, the line rings true: “In times of change, learners inherit the earth.” In today’s Daily Podcast, Jonathan Doyle shows why adaptability beats certainty, how to pick the right skills to learn next, and a simple system to keep you growing instead of drifting.

You’ll learn

  • Why waiting for guarantees costs you momentum
  • A quick audit to spot the skills you’ll need in the new economy
  • The Learn → Apply → Iterate flywheel to stay relevant
  • How faith and courage steady you when the pace of change spikes

Do this today: Identify one high-leverage skill, schedule 30 focused minutes, and ship one tiny application of what you learned.

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hey there, my friend Jonathan Dole with you.

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Welcome aboard to the Daily Podcast.

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I am pleased you are here.

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We are gonna hope that I can bring you something useful today that is gonna

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move you just a fraction forward.

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Because that is the purpose, that is the point to grow, to develop.

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We are nothing stays stationary, right?

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We're nothing stays stationary.

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There is growth and movement.

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It is in written in the laws of the cosmos itself.

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And you, my friend, are not exempt.

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I don't truly believe in the concept of homeostasis.

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Which is the idea that we can build a life where we're completely protected

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from everything, and things stay the same for us, as well as I do.

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That is not possible.

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We are either growing or we are atrophying, as I like to say.

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We are growing or we are not.

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And the fact that you have even pressed play on this episode means that at

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some level you are the kind of person that likes to grow, which means you

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and I are gonna get on very well.

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And it means that my job today is to try and serve you with just a simple

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single idea to keep you moving forward.

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As always, at the end of this, please make sure you're subscribed, hit that subscribe

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button, it does make a difference, and you can find everything else you need to know

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about me on the website@jonathandoyle.co.

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Today I wanna share with you an absolutely cracking one liner, which I

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think is a great deal of application at this moment in history from the great

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writer and psychotherapist, Eric from.

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Who just says this?

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I dunno if you've ever heard this.

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It's very powerful.

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He says, in times of change, learners inherit.

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The earth in times of change, learners inherit the earth.

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When I read that, I thought that's quite brilliant and I

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wanted to share it with you.

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Why I am not gonna go deep, deep, deep down the rabbit hole on this one.

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But next week I'm flying to Phoenix to speak to a large group of national.

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Senior executives in the US and I'm doing a keynote there and one of the things

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I'm focusing on is the sheer amount of change that deal they're dealing with.

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And I'm not even at the keynote gonna go into too much detail on this, but

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I, my thesis is that we are in a.

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Period of genuine epochal change.

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A sort of change that I don't think the planet may have ever witnessed before.

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And I'll tell you why.

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Always throughout human history, and I'm a deep student of human

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history, both academically.

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Intellectually in terms of just even my private reading for just my own

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tion, the, there are definite what's that famous saying from Mark Twain?

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History doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme.

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There's definitely patterns in human history.

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Totally get that, there's patterns that can be affected by weather and all

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sorts of different events, things that happen, but I think we're heading into.

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A period of change such as we may never have seen before, simply

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because the nature of the change is essentially technological.

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There's other very powerful components to it.

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Ideological mass culture migrations, all sorts of things that are happening.

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But I would say that in other times in human history, when these things happened,

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they tended to be relatively localized.

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By which I mean, the collapse of the of the Roman Empire.

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Its final collapse round about 4 76 Now, yes, it continued in the

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Eastern Empire in Constantinople, but that whole western Mediterranean

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area, when that Roman empire finally imploded, that was massive, especially

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if you were living in that region.

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But if you were living in remote parts of Africa or Indonesia, or,

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this was all the steps of Russia.

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You wouldn't have been as impacted by it.

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Now, you may have had, there may have been some impact, but what I'm getting

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at is that big sort of empirical changes in terms of empires tended to be large,

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but localized in the global sense.

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But what I think's happening now is that the change is truly global because the

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technological impact is global in terms of banking and finance, the economic

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systems, travel data, all of this stuff.

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It means that really big changes happen all at once, and then we

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can add the AI piece to this.

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And the purpose of this podcast is not to go really down the rabbit hole of

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what that exactly is gonna look like other than its very significant change.

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So that's why I wanted to share this with you.

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In times of change, according to Eric from Learners Inherit the Earth, which means.

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The people that survive are the ones that understand what's happening and learn the

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skill sets necessary as fast as possible.

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And this isn't even a message about career change or anything.

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This is a message about, look closely at what's happening, and ask yourself the

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question, what would I need to learn?

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In a system like this or in, in a form of change like this.

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The other thing about the change that's coming is that it's moving at

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a pace that is quite extraordinary.

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The Industrial Revolution was a process that took place

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over decades, if not longer.

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Yes, it happened, and yes, it was a seismic change to the way people had

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lived but there was a kind of multi-decade period where people adjusted to it.

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And let me tell you, it wasn't pleasant for a lot of people.

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So as this change begins to speed up.

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People who can learn the necessary skill are probably gonna do really well, and

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these will be financial, economic skill sets, relational health skill sets.

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There's a lot of things that you may want be paying attention to in

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terms of what do you need to learn.

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I don't wanna make this a depressing episode, but I don't think that the

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changes that are coming are going to be everyone's cup of tea by any stretch.

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I think we're basically gonna see the end of the western liberal order.

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I think we're gonna see the end of the, or at least a massive

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renegotiation of the relationship between the individual and the state.

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And that's not gonna be pretty.

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So as much as this is a motivational podcast.

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There is a lot changing and it's changing fast and you need to pay

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attention and you need to learn things.

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And over the last sort of five years, without going into detail, that

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is exactly what I have been doing.

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I have been learning skill sets and insights and some very useful things.

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In light of the change that I think is coming.

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So I encourage you, my friend, just to take this, for what it's worth, I'm trying

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not to be too vague, and I'm trying not to be too specific because I'm, I don't have

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a crystal ball and I don't see everything.

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But I think there's a lot to this quote in that when things change, if

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you continue to do the same things and hold onto all the same beliefs,

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it's not gonna go particularly well.

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So the industrial revolution is a pretty good example of that,

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was incredibly dislocating.

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We saw all this child labor and all sorts of stuff, social problems that took place

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and a relatively small number of people were able to flourish in that environment.

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So you do get a vote here.

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You do get a vote of which side of these changes you want to be on,

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and I do care, and I just wanna put this message out there that

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there's things you need to learn.

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I don't know whether those are technological things, skill

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sets, things around spirituality, health, but they're just.

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Something significant is about to change over the next, what's the timeframe?

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I genuinely would love to give you an answer to that, but I don't know,

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other than as a student of history, what I am very attuned to here is

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the pace of it, the speed at which it's moving, which means that I

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don't think any of us are going to.

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Miss out on some of these changes.

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So I just want you to be prepared and I want you to be encouraged, and I'm

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now trying to find a way to return this to being a motivational podcast.

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But I guess it can be in the sense that, maybe that these challenges

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are gonna force you to grow.

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Maybe these challenges are gonna force you to become more, to grow, to do

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more, to contribute more, to learn more, because it's gonna be challenging and

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people are gonna need you to step up.

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So that's it for today.

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Let me know what you think.

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Send me an email or post a comment if you want to, if

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you've got questions about this.

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But go and learn some stuff, or at least start asking the question,

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what do you think might be useful?

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What do you think might be useful to learn as the world around us changes so fast?

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Alright, please make sure you subscribed, hit that subscribe button.

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Come and say hi on Instagram.

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J Doyle speaks on YouTube at Jonathan Doyle Speaks and everything else you need

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to know about me on the website, Jonathan doyle.co, co. God bless you my friend.

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This has been The Daily Podcast, look and Chill, right?

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Because God's got your back like, pray.

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And trust and things are gonna work out.

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And this is the daily podcast, and you and I are gonna talk again tomorrow.

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