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It was like an athletic skill, because I could paint the figure quickly, but I didn't know why.
So she was again in Mathare, with no income, no skill set, no money.
Because now, there is a pull for the support, whether it's resources, data or skill building.
And we try to track the changes that occur as the new skill or ability is acquired.
So we might engage a rat, for example, to acquire a new skill or ability that might involve the rat using its paw to master particular manual grasp behaviors just like we might examine a child and their ability to acquire the sub-skills, or the general overall skill of accomplishing something like mastering the ability to read.
And it's focusing on skill after skill, or ability after ability, under specific attentional control.
You can look down in the brain of an animal that's engaged in a specific skill, and you can witness or document this change on a variety of levels.
And each one of them changes in ways that are specific to the skill or ability.
There are 15 or 20 cortical areas that are changed specifically when you learn a simple skill like this.
It may even increase our risk of cardiovascular disease and of impairing our executive functioning, the very skill sets we need to do our jobs well.
There is about 20 regions of the brain that have been modeled, simulated and tested: the auditory cortex, regions of the visual cortex; cerebellum, where we do our skill formation; slices of the cerebral cortex, where we do our rational thinking.
In post-conflict situations we don't just need Doctors Without Borders, we need Bricklayers Without Borders, to rebuild the skill set.
I think one of the things I am passionate about, my grandparents work, I'm passionate about my work, but on top of all that I'm passionate about a holistic vision of design, where design is a life skill, not a professional skill.
A meritocratic society is one in which, if you've got talent and energy and skill, you will get to the top, nothing should hold you back.
As long as the task involved only mechanical skill bonuses worked as they would be expected: the higher the pay, the better the performance.
But once the task called for even rudimentary cognitive skill, a larger reward led to poorer performance.
Which is why this is the first skill to learn.
The classic example of a non-declarative memory is the motor skill for riding a bike.
In areas where access to good primary and secondary education are limited and employment opportunities are scarce, a small skill base is inevitable.
Pairing innate values like this with on-the-job training and systems has strengthened our skill base.
The war on talent, the need to attract people at all skill ranges, to push us around in our wheelchairs, but also to drive our economies.
Emotional intelligence, which is the skill of being able to recognize and name your own emotions and those of other people, is considered so important, that this is taught in our schools and businesses and encouraged by our health services.
These self-help authors thought you could cultivate sadness as a skill, since being expert in it would make you more resilient when something bad did happen to you, as invariably it would.
The rock that Kanzi is using is extremely hard and ideal for stone tool making, but difficult to handle, requiring great skill.
So, again, transformation, adaptation, is our greatest human skill.
Vocational skill program for the older siblings so the younger ones are not stopped from coming to school.
Now Chuck is doing something quite extraordinary, at least for my limited physical skill.
They don't have a regular check, but they have opportunities to find more stuff, and learn the skill of negotiating and of finding opportunities.
And he was finally brought back into school, not by the offer of GCSEs, but by the offer of learning how to become a carpenter, a practical making skill.
And yet it's a skill that none of us are taught.
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