Book Summary | You Can Do Anything (2017)

You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education by George Anders talks about how liberal art skills can be helpful for career development in a tech-dominated world. Anders highlights the following liberal art skills and encourages liberal art graduates to use them to find their dream job.

• The entrepreneur spirit holds curiosity and creativity to explore new ideas
• The critical thinking skills to gain insights, solve problems and make decisions.
• The social skills to show empathy and willingness to understand different people and viewpoints and influence them.
• The storytelling skills that knowing how to communicate to co-op and persuade others and reading between the lines to understand others' stories.

The liberal art education makes you an explore, problem solver, and storyteller. These are essential leadership skills the industry is searching for. Of course, having both technical and liberal art skills works even better.

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"Can you build a team? Can you balance different perspectives and agendas? Can you understand the big picture? Can you manage through influence? Employers have been looking for these sorts of socially minded strengths since at least the 1930s." - Anders, George. You Can Do Anything