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Silvie (one of my ESL students) always has a list of words she has heard in the prior week and wants to know what they mean and talk about them.

This week, one of the words was "skills".

We talked about it and then she asked me "What skills do you have?"

My immediate response was "I don't have any."

Then I thought "How can I have the confidence I have without having skills?"

Answer "I can't."

So... my skills include:

- being tenacious
- being thoughtful - not like being nice, but thinking
- being insightful

What do your skills include?

From Napoleon Dynamite:

Napoleon Dynamite: Well, nobody's going to go out with *me*!

Pedro: Have you asked anybody yet?

Napoleon Dynamite: No, but who would? I don't even have any good skills.

Pedro: What do you mean?

Napoleon Dynamite: You know, like nunchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.

peacock2121 wrote:Silvie (one of my ESL students) always has a list of words she has heard in the prior week and wants to know what they mean and talk about them.

This week, one of the words was "skills".

We talked about it and then she asked me "What skills do you have?"

My immediate response was "I don't have any."

Then I thought "How can I have the confidence I have without having skills?"

Answer "I can't."

So... my skills include:

- being tenacious
- being thoughtful - not like being nice, but thinking
- being insightful

What do your skills include?

I don't quite agree that those are skills, I would call them personality traits. I think of "skills" as physical or something like that.

I want to believe that I have good " skills" at golfing, cooking, playing cards my work etc. I have horrible skills at home improvement projects, anything to do with autos.

kusch wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:Silvie (one of my ESL students) always has a list of words she has heard in the prior week and wants to know what they mean and talk about them.

This week, one of the words was "skills".

We talked about it and then she asked me "What skills do you have?"

My immediate response was "I don't have any."

Then I thought "How can I have the confidence I have without having skills?"

Answer "I can't."

So... my skills include:

- being tenacious
- being thoughtful - not like being nice, but thinking
- being insightful

What do your skills include?

I don't quite agree that those are skills, I would call them personality traits. I think of "skills" as physical or something like that.

I want to believe that I have good " skills" at golfing, cooking, playing cards my work etc. I have horrible skills at home improvement projects, anything to do with autos.

I think anything that is done at one level and then advanced to a higher level is a learned "skill." Personality simply allows one to hone those skills whether it be tenacity, thoughtfulness, insightfulness, bitchiness or whatever. Some of us just have higher ambitions than others.

What dk said.

The skills I say I have, I have been working on improving for most of my adult life. I even take courses in them. I'll talk to anyone who will listen about them and ask people how I'm doing.

At school they are trying to figure out how to market and sell "soft skills," except everyone hates the "soft" part. The goal is to show how critical thinking, logic, rhetoric, and other thinking skills are useful in every discipline, and that everyone should have to learn some of them.

My skillz:

I get to the point, and I don't get distracted by stuff that is irrelevant.

I have compassion for folks, though I lose it if they are selfish. That is a skill that must be developed, not just a way of being.

I have some shred of humility, so I will end the list.

peacock2121 wrote:Silvie (one of my ESL students) always has a list of words she has heard in the prior week and wants to know what they mean and talk about them.

This week, one of the words was "skills".

We talked about it and then she asked me "What skills do you have?"

My immediate response was "I don't have any."

Then I thought "How can I have the confidence I have without having skills?"

Answer "I can't."

So... my skills include:

- being tenacious
- being thoughtful - not like being nice, but thinking
- being insightful

What do your skills include?

You have leadership skills after a fashion: "Do what she says and no one gets hurt."

LOL - Do you remember that is what Sting said from the companion seat?

Smart boy, that one.

I also clean things very well. Attention to detail.