The best way to learn in 21st century

I apology if you feel today’s title sounds like a clickbait.

What I am trying to discuss is the best learn strategy nowadays and why the traditional learn style will be outdated soon.

TL TR, Knowledge is sourced from problem solving, and we should learn new knowledge by solving problem instead of reading through all classical books and getting a diploma.

Next, I will explain why.

There is a mystery fact that the total knowledge of humankind did not increase that much before the Renaissance. And after a certain time point. the knowledge growth faster and faster. the knowledge growth more faster than population.

I go and and checked the US patent filed in the past 40 years, because it is reliable data we can use.

Data source: Population and Patent:

Patent grow 566% while population only grow 69%. Why? Ramachandran give the answer in his book “Phantoms in the Brain:Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind”, because the problems we need to solve grow in this speed, and we need to find way out. new knowledge is generated by solving problems. For example, at the very beginning, computer are build to help us to solve some math problems. Now, you see, how much knowledge we created to solve problems from computer?

In the future, most of knowledge we learn from school will be outdated right after the graduation. To learn more, we should