The Future of Work Demands Your Creativity Even If You’re in a Conventional Career
Become the crow that filled a pitcher with pebbles.
Since I started practicing my profession as an accountant, I’ve always been careful not to tell people about my love for writing. I don’t want them to associate my creative inclination with my knack for crunching numbers.
After all, nobody ever wants a “creative” accountant. A conventional accountant should be dry, structured, and the total opposite of “artistic”.
Little did I know that the COVID-19 pandemic will change all that. I found back my voice and started bridging my writing to my profession. Writing became a means of survival. After reading Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind, I knew that I was in the right direction.
I should stop treating my “creativity” as a bane but rather, use it to benefit my profession. Here’s why.
Artificial intelligence (AI) machines will be part of a company’s board of directors by 2026. People expect it to happen based on a World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software and Society survey.
That’s five years away.
As crazy as it sounds, a future wherein you pit your skills against an AI is not far-fetched. A whole new mind, one that empowers…
