Search This Blog

Monday, May 16, 2011

RAPID SKILL BUILDING

 

Our whole lives we’ve been trained to think that gaining knowledge, building skills, and simply learning how to do stuff takes a lot of time.

The traditional education system for most people lasts about 16 years.  Sure much of that is spent in your younger years learning the essentials of communication, math, basic history – but imagine if right now you spent 16 years learning nothing but things directly relevant to your life.

The amount you could accomplish is nothing short of mind-blowing.

However, no one thinks 16 years in advance these days.  Hell, people hardly think 16 hours ahead.

One of the most underrated and valuable concepts in life is that of rapid skill building.

TO READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE, CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW:

http://www.seanogle.com/headline/rapid-skill-building

 

 

FROM THE COMMENTS SECTION:

Justin Hamlin said:

I will preface this by saying I have worked as an IT consultant for almost 10 years. When I started out, I thought I needed to know EVERYTHING off top of my head. I studied books, websites, shadowed other engineers. Within 4 years I went from a telemarketer to a Sr. Engineer making 6 figures. You want to know the most important skill that I learned? How to talk to people and how to find the information you need.

It has nothing to do with being an expert of everything all at once. It is more important to be proficient in a lot of things and have the knowledge how to take 48 hours and turn a topic you know nothing about into something you are proficient at and can sell.

No comments: