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.
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hey there, my friend Jonathan Dole with you.
Speaker:Welcome aboard to the Daily Podcast.
Speaker:I am pleased you are here.
Speaker:We are gonna hope that I can bring you something useful today that is gonna
Speaker:move you just a fraction forward.
Speaker:Because that is the purpose, that is the point to grow, to develop.
Speaker:We are nothing stays stationary, right?
Speaker:We're nothing stays stationary.
Speaker:There is growth and movement.
Speaker:It is in written in the laws of the cosmos itself.
Speaker:And you, my friend, are not exempt.
Speaker:I don't truly believe in the concept of homeostasis.
Speaker:Which is the idea that we can build a life where we're completely protected
Speaker:from everything, and things stay the same for us, as well as I do.
Speaker:That is not possible.
Speaker:We are either growing or we are atrophying, as I like to say.
Speaker:We are growing or we are not.
Speaker:And the fact that you have even pressed play on this episode means that at
Speaker:some level you are the kind of person that likes to grow, which means you
Speaker:and I are gonna get on very well.
Speaker:And it means that my job today is to try and serve you with just a simple
Speaker:single idea to keep you moving forward.
Speaker:As always, at the end of this, please make sure you're subscribed, hit that subscribe
Speaker:button, it does make a difference, and you can find everything else you need to know
Speaker:about me on the website@jonathandoyle.co.
Speaker:Today I wanna share with you an absolutely cracking one liner, which I
Speaker:think is a great deal of application at this moment in history from the great
Speaker:writer and psychotherapist, Eric from.
Speaker:Who just says this?
Speaker:I dunno if you've ever heard this.
Speaker:It's very powerful.
Speaker:He says, in times of change, learners inherit.
Speaker:The earth in times of change, learners inherit the earth.
Speaker:When I read that, I thought that's quite brilliant and I
Speaker:wanted to share it with you.
Speaker:Why I am not gonna go deep, deep, deep down the rabbit hole on this one.
Speaker:But next week I'm flying to Phoenix to speak to a large group of national.
Speaker:Senior executives in the US and I'm doing a keynote there and one of the things
Speaker:I'm focusing on is the sheer amount of change that deal they're dealing with.
Speaker:And I'm not even at the keynote gonna go into too much detail on this, but
Speaker:I, my thesis is that we are in a.
Speaker:Period of genuine epochal change.
Speaker:A sort of change that I don't think the planet may have ever witnessed before.
Speaker:And I'll tell you why.
Speaker:Always throughout human history, and I'm a deep student of human
Speaker:history, both academically.
Speaker:Intellectually in terms of just even my private reading for just my own
Speaker:tion, the, there are definite what's that famous saying from Mark Twain?
Speaker:History doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme.
Speaker:There's definitely patterns in human history.
Speaker:Totally get that, there's patterns that can be affected by weather and all
Speaker:sorts of different events, things that happen, but I think we're heading into.
Speaker:A period of change such as we may never have seen before, simply
Speaker:because the nature of the change is essentially technological.
Speaker:There's other very powerful components to it.
Speaker:Ideological mass culture migrations, all sorts of things that are happening.
Speaker:But I would say that in other times in human history, when these things happened,
Speaker:they tended to be relatively localized.
Speaker:By which I mean, the collapse of the of the Roman Empire.
Speaker:Its final collapse round about 4 76 Now, yes, it continued in the
Speaker:Eastern Empire in Constantinople, but that whole western Mediterranean
Speaker:area, when that Roman empire finally imploded, that was massive, especially
Speaker:if you were living in that region.
Speaker:But if you were living in remote parts of Africa or Indonesia, or,
Speaker:this was all the steps of Russia.
Speaker:You wouldn't have been as impacted by it.
Speaker:Now, you may have had, there may have been some impact, but what I'm getting
Speaker:at is that big sort of empirical changes in terms of empires tended to be large,
Speaker:but localized in the global sense.
Speaker:But what I think's happening now is that the change is truly global because the
Speaker:technological impact is global in terms of banking and finance, the economic
Speaker:systems, travel data, all of this stuff.
Speaker:It means that really big changes happen all at once, and then we
Speaker:can add the AI piece to this.
Speaker:And the purpose of this podcast is not to go really down the rabbit hole of
Speaker:what that exactly is gonna look like other than its very significant change.
Speaker:So that's why I wanted to share this with you.
Speaker:In times of change, according to Eric from Learners Inherit the Earth, which means.
Speaker:The people that survive are the ones that understand what's happening and learn the
Speaker:skill sets necessary as fast as possible.
Speaker:And this isn't even a message about career change or anything.
Speaker:This is a message about, look closely at what's happening, and ask yourself the
Speaker:question, what would I need to learn?
Speaker:In a system like this or in, in a form of change like this.
Speaker:The other thing about the change that's coming is that it's moving at
Speaker:a pace that is quite extraordinary.
Speaker:The Industrial Revolution was a process that took place
Speaker:over decades, if not longer.
Speaker:Yes, it happened, and yes, it was a seismic change to the way people had
Speaker:lived but there was a kind of multi-decade period where people adjusted to it.
Speaker:And let me tell you, it wasn't pleasant for a lot of people.
Speaker:So as this change begins to speed up.
Speaker:People who can learn the necessary skill are probably gonna do really well, and
Speaker:these will be financial, economic skill sets, relational health skill sets.
Speaker:There's a lot of things that you may want be paying attention to in
Speaker:terms of what do you need to learn.
Speaker:I don't wanna make this a depressing episode, but I don't think that the
Speaker:changes that are coming are going to be everyone's cup of tea by any stretch.
Speaker:I think we're basically gonna see the end of the western liberal order.
Speaker:I think we're gonna see the end of the, or at least a massive
Speaker:renegotiation of the relationship between the individual and the state.
Speaker:And that's not gonna be pretty.
Speaker:So as much as this is a motivational podcast.
Speaker:There is a lot changing and it's changing fast and you need to pay
Speaker:attention and you need to learn things.
Speaker:And over the last sort of five years, without going into detail, that
Speaker:is exactly what I have been doing.
Speaker:I have been learning skill sets and insights and some very useful things.
Speaker:In light of the change that I think is coming.
Speaker:So I encourage you, my friend, just to take this, for what it's worth, I'm trying
Speaker:not to be too vague, and I'm trying not to be too specific because I'm, I don't have
Speaker:a crystal ball and I don't see everything.
Speaker:But I think there's a lot to this quote in that when things change, if
Speaker:you continue to do the same things and hold onto all the same beliefs,
Speaker:it's not gonna go particularly well.
Speaker:So the industrial revolution is a pretty good example of that,
Speaker:was incredibly dislocating.
Speaker:We saw all this child labor and all sorts of stuff, social problems that took place
Speaker:and a relatively small number of people were able to flourish in that environment.
Speaker:So you do get a vote here.
Speaker:You do get a vote of which side of these changes you want to be on,
Speaker:and I do care, and I just wanna put this message out there that
Speaker:there's things you need to learn.
Speaker:I don't know whether those are technological things, skill
Speaker:sets, things around spirituality, health, but they're just.
Speaker:Something significant is about to change over the next, what's the timeframe?
Speaker:I genuinely would love to give you an answer to that, but I don't know,
Speaker:other than as a student of history, what I am very attuned to here is
Speaker:the pace of it, the speed at which it's moving, which means that I
Speaker:don't think any of us are going to.
Speaker:Miss out on some of these changes.
Speaker:So I just want you to be prepared and I want you to be encouraged, and I'm
Speaker:now trying to find a way to return this to being a motivational podcast.
Speaker:But I guess it can be in the sense that, maybe that these challenges
Speaker:are gonna force you to grow.
Speaker:Maybe these challenges are gonna force you to become more, to grow, to do
Speaker:more, to contribute more, to learn more, because it's gonna be challenging and
Speaker:people are gonna need you to step up.
Speaker:So that's it for today.
Speaker:Let me know what you think.
Speaker:Send me an email or post a comment if you want to, if
Speaker:you've got questions about this.
Speaker:But go and learn some stuff, or at least start asking the question,
Speaker:what do you think might be useful?
Speaker:What do you think might be useful to learn as the world around us changes so fast?
Speaker:Alright, please make sure you subscribed, hit that subscribe button.
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Speaker:J Doyle speaks on YouTube at Jonathan Doyle Speaks and everything else you need
Speaker:to know about me on the website, Jonathan doyle.co, co. God bless you my friend.
Speaker:This has been The Daily Podcast, look and Chill, right?
Speaker:Because God's got your back like, pray.
Speaker:And trust and things are gonna work out.
Speaker:And this is the daily podcast, and you and I are gonna talk again tomorrow.