Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

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"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

- Alvin Toffler

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"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."

- Alvin Toffler

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"Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life"

- Alvin Toffler

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

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