The World Is Flat/Friedman 238-265

239 This is why if you cannot be special or specialized, you don’t want to count on being anchored so you won’t be outsourced. You actually want to be come really adaptable. You want constantly to be able to create value---something more that vanilla ice cream.

239 Learn how to learn.

239 You have to be skillfully adaptable and socially adaptable.

244 MIT: The Impact of Innovations

256 Dirty Little Secret #1 The Number Gap— Decline in U.S. citizens who are training to become scientist and engineers, whereas the number of jobs requiring science and engineering training continues to grow.

260 Dirty Little Secret #2 The Ambition Gap
Whatever you put in your head and your stomach no one can take away from you.

264 The secret isn’t just lower wages. It’s also the attitude of workers who take pride and are willing to do what is necessary to succeed

265 You need to understand things in order invest beyond them