Expiring Vs Permanent Skills

Organizations know how to measure vocational skills. They know how to measure typing skills for example. However, they are less able to measure passion or commitment.

Organizations hire and fire based on vocational skill output. But, getting rid of a negative thinker or a bully is much more difficult. An employee that demoralizes an entire team is hampering productivity.

If you've got the vocational skills, you're of little help without the human skills. The soft skills, or rather real skills, can't replace vocational skills, but amplify the things you've already been measuring.

For instance, a team member with all the traditional vocational skills is the baseline. Add to that perceptive, charismatic, driven, focused, goal-setting, inspiring, motivated, deep listener, and you have a team member that will benefit the organization in exponential ways.

It’s impossible to think about risk and opportunity without a reference point. And ours is at most incomplete (if not totally wrong).

Everything we think about risk and opportunity is shaped by our own specific situation and personal experience. So everybody has a view of risk shaped by narrow experiences but applied to the broad world.

Long-term thinking is difficult to put in action because the long run is a collection of short runs that have to be handled, displayed, and used as information to gauge whether a long-term reward still exists.

Short-term thinking can be the only way you’ll survive long enough to experience long-term results.

• People generally want to solve problems than to create harm, but those who want to harm get a lot more attention.

• While people can be taken advantage of, it can’t be done for an infinite period of time.

• Every ten years or so, there has to be some economic, political, military or social breakdown, according to historical data.

• Stories are more engaging than statistics. A thousand people dead evokes different emotions than the death of that one person whose story we all know.
• The only thing constant is change, and nothing good or bad stays that way, ever. However, one can never find out what or when the change would be.
• Incentives can make people do good and bad things. While a group of people can be made smarter, they cannot be made more patient, less greedy during uncertain periods.

Mastery, once a sought-after attribute, is falling out of favour, according to the 2016 World Economic Forum report, and is slowly clearing the field for employees who can:

• Have a diverse set of skills.
• Can display the mental agility to switch between tasks.
• Are able to pivot towards a new problem or activity.
• Can take on a variety of roles at a short notice.

With the value of true expertise in serious decline, and the economy evolving towards a different set of requirements from employees, the impact on college education, career paths, worker safety, employability and even the nature of work is going to be profound.

There are games designed to train and improve brain functionality, logical deduction, pattern recognition, memory, matching, and outside the box thinking.

The interactivity of games is one way to exercise your mind while having fun. That’s important because, like muscles, the brain will atrophy if you don’t work it. 

It’s possible that gaming enables stereotypically introspective individuals to be more social, ultimately improving social skills.

In the earliest consoles, gaming with friends involved a physical gathering in front of a single TV. Even in today’s online multiplayers, gamers often form groups, communicate over voice and video chat, and can even help train leaders in the case of those who manage the groups. 

• Arrogant persons have an inflated and unrealistic sense of their importance and believe they know it all.
• An arrogant person will argue black is white, to prove their point.
• Arrogant people have zero interest in listening to others.
• You don't need ask an arrogant person about themselves, because every discussion will revolve around them.

• Confidence brings people together; arrogance rejects people and is used as a means to demoralize others.
• Truly confident people don't feel to need to compare themselves to others - they’re happy being on their own unique path; arrogant people feel the need to shine over everybody else, often to the detriment of others.
• Leaders are almost always confident but bring humility and self-awareness to a team; arrogant people are usually oblivious to their negative traits and struggle to accept any form of constructive criticism.

• In the field of investing, Contrarians take the opposite view, akin to cynicism, and think of the collective mainstream view as a kind of mass delusion.
• Occasionally, a contrary view is welcome, but if it is done every time, then the good times when one has to simply ride the wave are missed, leading to bitterness.

• A positive attitude has the power to change our thinking and facilitate good things in our lives. Optimism surely beats pessimism as a worldview, when one has to pick a side.
• Too much optimism turns into a delusion and eventually complacency. One starts getting out of touch with reality and lives in the mode of denial.

• Drawing is a problem-solving visual tool. It helps us think better and provides clarity to a cluttered mind.

• Authentic pen and paper drawing help us break free from the limiting domains of technology which digital tools like Google image search or drawing software provide, indirectly hindering our creativity.

• Drawing also makes us slow down, observe and pay attention.

• Drawing promotes close observation, analytical thinking, patience, and even humility, making it one of the best ways to learn.

The amusement park opened on 17th of July 1955 and was watched by 90 million of citizens, out of a total of 169 million.

Even if the day went by with quite a few issues, by September the millionth visitor had stepped into the alleys of the park. Nowadays there are 12 parks worldwide, however, the only one that bears the signature of his big creator remains the one in Anaheim.

While presenting himself as extremely sociable and friendly to the audience, Walt Disney was quite the demanding and irritable boss when it came to his employees.

However, he was both open to the others' ideas, which totally paid off when improving the park, and a supporter of Jewish people, even though at some point individuals took him for an anti-Semite.

• The pandemic death toll predictions are probabilities but the newspapers keep them as benchmark numbers which will be held against the experts.
• In investing, stock predictions that come true are hailed on CNBC, as if those people have some superpower.

Probability gets sidelined because:

• People want certainty, not accuracy. It’s more appealing to make them feel better(with lies, if required) than to give them cold, hard data.
• There are not many chances to measure our prediction skills, with sufficient sample sizes taking long to play out.
• People don’t really understand what odds mean, as their beliefs and preferences of what should happen, takes precedence over probability.