The world is changing with the rise of AI and accelerated technological progress. But as more cognitive tasks are outsourced to computers, so-called “soft skills” are becoming the most essential skills humans have to offer.
Empathy. Inspiration. Connection. Interpersonal skills. The things that make us human matter more than ever.
Fortunately, all the science suggests that these character skills are teachable, learnable, and trainable for anyone — oh, and also happen to be the most important ones for happiness and career success.
We can get better at being human. Let’s do it together.
Who’s Writing This Stuff?
I’m Taylor Berrett, an American writer and lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. I teach performance and presentation skills and am conducting research into how creative environments influence the things we make.
Over the course of my career I’ve recorded an album for Warner Bros. Records, toured the United States as a performing artist, spoken as a guest lecturer in fine arts programs around the country, launched and ran a marketing and copywriting business, given a TEDx talk about truth at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and once embarrassed myself in front of Rihanna and Drake in the same night.
When not writing or teaching, I can be found reading facts about space to my two sons, riding my bike in the direction of a beach, running trails around the Sunshine Coast, or conducting research relating to my quest to find the best fish and chips in Australia.
Let’s Talk!
Send me a message or leave a comment and you will get a reply. I’m not that busy, honestly.
