There are many opinions and theories about how best to develop skills, but what exactly is a skill?One possible definition refers to a person’s ability to achieve an established goal.
Capabilities refer both to a person’s psychological, physical and bodily sphere, we can talk about skills conditioned by genetic problems and others that have more to do with a culture or with the environment itself.
- In this way.
- We can say that there are people who were born especially endowed with the ability to do a good job in certain areas.
- And also people who acquire that capacity through long and arduous.
- Practical and deliberate training.
We all have innate abilities. From an early age there are people who have an ideal physical constitution for certain sports, for example, or even manual, artistic, social, intellectual, etc. skills.
If the person does not engage in this skill and does not develop it, it will be difficult for him to condition his life, so, for example, we find people with a natural capacity for an activity without ever having dedicated himself to it in To develop it in depth. In these kinds of situations, we feel that we are facing a talent that is somehow wasted.
In other cases, a person’s initial abilities are impaired by various factors in life, such as trauma, physical or psychological disabilities, or simply age; As we know, even our best abilities can deteriorate with time and age.
In practice, the development of different individual skills is conditioned by circumstances that operate on three fundamental axes, which are: proportionality to objectives, coherence and polarization.
Skills function as an instrument of goals as they definitely help with greater or lesser ability to achieve something specific. We’re talking about things we want to accomplish.
When one of our goals fits our capabilities it is very likely that we will achieve it, in this case we say that we are acting realistically, setting goals that we can achieve with a little effort.
At the same time, on the road to this goal, we are developing our full potential related to our implementation responsibility and individual capabilities.
All this means that we have the will to try to achieve the goals gradually, even if they get bigger and bigger, as we will gradually become increasingly able to achieve them, so it is important to set concrete short-term goals that are in line with our potential.
Otherwise, if the goals are not proportional to our capabilities, the risk of failure increases; at this point, we are likely to be frustrated and eager to give up everything; on the other hand, if the goals are too simple, we will develop less of our skills. This will reduce our levels of what we could achieve.
That’s why it’s important to know what we’re going to do. Once known, the work of polishing the material is ours.
Consistency is also a very important factor. Long-term goals are always full of stumbles, great advances and other setbacks, moments of great faith, and others of great despair in which we seem to only move forward with inertia.
One way to increase our consistency and combat this inertia is to remember why we pursue what we are looking for, which is important so that obstacles do not exceed our motivation.
At some point it is necessary to orient our efforts in one direction, it is better that our skills are oriented towards our objectives, which are in specific areas, which usually correspond to the work or professional context.
The dispersion of targets is an obstacle to everything. Our time is limited and we cannot continue to make several decisions, we only have to make one and choose the skills that we want to develop in relation to others.
Often, the range of options only functions as a block for the person, who ends up getting lost in what he wants, what he thinks is best for her, what others want and what others think is best for them.
We are not talking about looking fat at any other opportunity, but an intelligent focus of efforts in a given area in which to deepen, go further in several, with the amount of knowledge that we have every day in each field, is an almost impossible task, regardless of the size of our entrepreneurial spirit.
As we have seen, the development of our skills depends on your connection with our goals, coherence and direction, if we take all this into account, we can develop our skills and intelligently and also develop our full potential.