The 70-20-10 Rule Is Wrong About Learning

Career Skills with Fexingo: Hard Skills, Soft Skills, and Future-Proofing Your Career · May 23, 2026 · 5m · transcript

Most professionals have heard the 70-20-10 rule: 70% of learning comes from on-the-job experience, 20% from social interactions, and 10% from formal training. But that framework was developed in the 1980s for a different workplace. In this episode, Lucas and Luna drill into a 2024 study of 3,000 knowledge workers that found the actual ratio is closer to 55-25-20 — and the shift has big implications for how you invest your time. They trace the history of the model, explain why informal learning now pulls more weight, and walk through how to build a personal learning audit using the new…