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"Rigor Redefined", by Tony Wagner, talks about what we will employers are now looking for in their employees. Critical thinking and problem solving are both important because people always want better things and you need to know how to make the products they want better as they desire for them increases. Curiosity, being initiative, analyzing, communication, and being able to collaborate easily are also important traits that a future employee needs to have to be able to succeed in 20^th century world.

            I can understand how all those traits are important in this century are important but there is a certain danger in asking for that and also a certain unrealism in the idea of having all of that. Only the best of the best might be able to be all those things at once and even that’s a lot to ask of them. Also curiosity might help out but it might drive them to do things that will do far more damage than good. The same in true with communication, they might be more willing to talk to their workers but that might make the workers a lot more willing to listen to a person who really doesn’t know what he is doing.  I do have a couple of questions though. Wouldn’t being able to do all of that make us sort of machine like? Do employers want machines instead of humans to do their work for them? All in all, the standards are increasing too much for the human mind to cope with and the only alternate option is turning to computers to do the jobs for us.