Owen Rascovitch

That seems kind of lame, but you've got to actually develop more skills and then actually improve.

turn the current skills you have into more valuable skills.

So if you want to progress throughout your career, you're going to be learning things on the job, but to actually progress faster, to get that next pay rise, to change career directions, you're actually going to have to put in some work on the side, whether that be an hour a day or doing a course or something like that to keep upskilling yourself and becoming a more valuable employee and being able to do more things.

Yeah, I think that's a really good way to frame it like in terms of a career progression.

There's table stakes or like things if you want to become, you know, when you get into a certain role in a certain industry, there's requirements.

You always see them on like the job ads, don't you?

There's like...

There's like what you need and then there's like the nice-to-haves.

Yeah, and that can be most of the time it's formal study or experience.

So you kind of have to tick that box, but it doesn't have to stop there.

It doesn't have to stop at school or university either.

So we'll get to some ways that people can, I suppose, invest in themselves without forking out a lot of money to go and do an expensive course.

Yeah.

I think the key point here, for me at least, is that your knowledge snowballs and it compounds just as quick.

And we talk about compounding a lot in terms of finances and not noticing it until it's already so big that it's compounding away in the background.

The same thing with knowledge, right?

As you get older, it does become harder to learn and retain things.

Some people might disagree with that, but it's definitely easier to learn when you're

There's a reason we study at the beginning of our lives and not at the end of it.

And the reason we study at the beginning is because we learn all these core, I suppose, these core ideas about how the world works.