The skills to face everything actually mentioned (as I am interpreting it) in different ways in some books that I've read. In simple terms, the point is we need to be a liquid. We need to expect ourself facing something that cannot be solved by our experiences. It means that we need to start to explore new knowledge or even new fields. Experiences in many fields can become a major factor to boost our value (as many stories in the book comparing how people upgrade themselves with as specialist or generalist, both have their own role in the field). But, sometimes people are too afraid to become generalist. Because the path contains starting from zero including learning basics while competing people with specialization. The eager to do so sometimes clogged up as we think that we have studied enough and expecting to just repeat what we had done.
For me, I would assume that the experiences I have in early years of college bring the sense of how generalist develop their skill. After those years, the experencies benefit my upgrading process during college. Curiousity and endurance to learn new skill.make every new tasks from new subjects become fun to explore.
Lateral knowledge as mentioned in the book, can become the key to inovation and creativity. I can't agree more. In scientific article competition, I saw many ideas that combine unexpected fields. It became creative because no one didn't think about it. Ideas always come with combining something out of the static condition. Experiences in multiple fields can open up chances to create creativity.
It also boost my mentality to face new challenges. Just like a game (MOBA especially) where we repeat the same start-from-zero process in battlefield over and over again. We are not scared by any new enemies and keep on going. We don't think about winning or losing. We don't think about "can I do it or not?". Even though we are losing in the end of the challanges, we don't give up and afraid to start over again. It's kind of a "Nothing to lose" mentality.
So, to answer the main question, I will say "I don't know what you become in the future, I can't predict what you become in the future, I don't want to decide what you become in the future, but whatever it is I believe that you need to learn endurence to learn new things. We need to be ready and open up for new knowledge."
