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What I call myself is a Future of Work strategist and a keynote speaker and an author.  And Chris Shipley and I wrote The Adaptation Advantage, which came out in 2020.  The premise of it was, the future work is really learning and we can't have fixed occupational identities or fixed ideas, we have to essentially get adept at adapting, and that came out just prior to the pandemic.  And, oh boy, we did not know how much we were going to need to adapt then! 

— Heather McGowan

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "What I call myself is a Future of Work strategist and a keynote speaker and an author.  And Chris Shipley and I wrote The Adaptation Advantage, which came out in 2020.  The premise of it was, the future work is really learning and we can't have fixed occupational identities or fixed ideas, we have to essentially get adept at adapting, and that came out just prior to the pandemic.  And, oh boy, we did not know how much we were going to need to adapt then! " in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Heather McGowan

About Heather McGowan

Heather McGowan is an American writer. She is the author of the novels Schooling and Duchess of Nothing Schooling was named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, The Detroit Free Press and The Hartford Courant. McGowan has a master in fine arts from Brown University.