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For the sake of collective progress, let's assume we're all late to the party. We probably should have started a little earlier on all this. Yes, there's always someone who knows more and started before us – so what? Let's agree that the second best time to start is now. And the first thing we have to do before anything else is unlearn the way we think. In order to reinvent ourselves, we need to wipe our human hard drive clean of all the useless files we've been carrying around since school. Some of them are heavy and slowing us down. We need to remember that our training to follow a linear path is obsolete. With some simple knowledge hacks, we can reframe what looks risky and pursue a new path.

Today's playbook can be learned relatively quickly, once we free our mind from what we have been told. It's low cost and has a high return on time invested. The least anyone willing to have a crack at reinventing themselves can expect is that they'll get a very nice ROH (return on humanity). Sometimes the having is in the doing, and by doing more than you've done in the past, you'll become more than you were and will feel pride at having had the guts to try. And some strange things happen when we invest in ourselves. We gain a great deal of self-esteem, and our own economics improves because we know, and others sense, we are the kind of person to make an effort. It's the same feeling you get when you've prepared well for anything: suddenly the outcome doesn't seem as important, although we are often happy with it.

You've already got the skills you need. If you can read, you can do it. I really mean that. This revolution is one that connects skills and people, and we all need each other. But if you can dig up some deeply buried desire for risk, some courage and a bit of the creative spirit you had as a five-year-old, then I know you'll seize the opportunity that being connected to everyone in the world can bring. It's an opportunity no generation before ours ever had.