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Gorbak the wizard may have lied, but your deductive skills quickly evened the score.
I studied journalism in college with the intention of expanding my communication and writing skills, but the only thing that I felt connected to in life was drawing.
And we'll grow it as a moral force in the world, finding out those terrible things before anybody else knows about them, and sending our response to them, so that next year, instead of us meeting here, lamenting how many terrible things there are in the world, we will have pulled together, used the unique skills and the magic of this community, and be proud that we have done everything we can to stop pandemics, other catastrophes, and change the world, beginning right now.
Secondly you need skills, the mundane skills of the construction sector.
Because we also need your intellectual capital: your ideas, your skills, your ingenuity.
With their steely navigational skills, advanced long-ships and fearsome tactics, the Vikings sustained their seafaring for over three hundred years.
The doctor swept into the palace, ready to show off his skills.
But, to get on a process of increasing income, increasing skills led to very rapid growth there.
They gave these MIT students a bunch of games, games that involved creativity, and motor skills, and concentration.
I want to urge everybody here to apply your passion, your knowledge and your skills to areas like cymatics.
What I'd like to do first is take you through a very brief helicopter ride of stunts and the stunts industry in the movies and in television, and show you how technology has started to interface with the physical skills of the stunt performer in a way that makes the stunts bigger and actually makes them safer than they've ever been before.
Beginning in the late 19th century, researchers hypothesized that cognitive abilities like verbal reasoning, working memory, and visual-spatial skills reflected an underlying general intelligence, or g factor.
Simon and Binet thought the skills their test assessed would reflect general intelligence.
That doesn’t mean the test itself is worthless— in fact, it does a good job of measuring the reasoning and problem-solving skills it sets out to.
Now, when your state is collapsing, your economy is heading south at a rate of knots, the last people you want coming on to the labor market are 14,000 men and women whose chief skills are surveillance, are smuggling, building underground networks and killing people.
Perhaps because power corrupts, or perhaps because we promote people into managerial roles because they're excellent at their jobs, and we assume that they will pick up the people skills, pick up the management skills along the way.
And this provides a fertile ground for harassment and discrimination with unrealistic expectations, with poor time management, with poor conflict management skills.
Because skills develop with exposure over time, repeated exposure to everyday situations that kids encounter: self-soothing skills or the ability to calm oneself down when upset; problem-solving skills, including the ability to resolve conflicts with others; delay of gratification, or the ability to keep your efforts going despite the fact that you have to wait over time to see what happens.
These and many other skills are developing in children who take risks and engage.
They are coping skills that parents and children can learn.
Making stuff is important, especially for nation-states wanting to boost employment, increase skills and reduce import dependence.
Building up skills and suppliers are not the only hurdles to local industrialization, but they're good examples of how we think about the challenge.
Because of the resources, the skills, and certainly the surge of talent we're seeing all around the world, with the mindset to create change.
It is disheartening to see that, with all our challenges, with all the talents, with all the skills we have in Africa as a continent, we tend to solve our problems by parachuting in experts from the West for short stays, exporting the best and brightest out of Africa, and treating Africa as a continent in perpetual need of handouts.
One of my senior colleagues told me, when I was a youngster in this profession, rather proudly, that statisticians were people who liked figures but didn't have the personality skills to become accountants.
My work, for a long time, has been involved in education, in teaching people practical skills for sustainability, teaching people how to take responsibility for growing some of their own food, how to build buildings using local materials, how to generate their own energy, and so on.
And we decided to combine our skills.
The second story I'm going to tell you about is about a group of very special fighting women with rather unique peace-keeping skills.
And that is, there is a sudden emergence and rapid spread of a number of skills that are unique to human beings like tool use, the use of fire, the use of shelters, and, of course, language, and the ability to read somebody else's mind and interpret that person's behavior.
The imitation of complex skills is what we call culture and is the basis of civilization.
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