Important Skills
“You know, like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills… Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.” ~Napoleon Dynamite
What are the most important skills for someone to have?
I think a very important skill is to be able to filter out important information from unimportant information. People seem to spend so much time thinking and worrying about things that are not very important. And if you’re trying to solve a problem, figuring out the important aspects of it is a key step to solving it.
Monika thought the most important skill is finding out what makes people feel important. Oddly, this is also what the pimp on the last episode of “The Shield” said.
I would be very interested to hear what everyone thinks the most important skills are, so feel free to post them.
April 26th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
[…] In an earlier post, I said I thought one of the most important skills in life is to be able to separate imporant information from unimporant information. I think another one is knowing when to stop work on something. The last 5% of a project always takes longer than the first 95%. I know the perfectionists out there will disagree with me, but at a point I think the cost/benefit ratio says you should stop working on something. Anyway, these are examples of some skills that someone should teach maybe? Probably more important are social skills and dealing with your boss, etc. I certainly like their ideas for have the admissions be more based on problem solving and creativity than academic scores. […]