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I think of us humans as "Life 2.0" because we can learn, which we in nerdy, geek speak, might think of as installing new software into our brains, like languages and job
skills.
We can all watch how a fantastic athlete or a fantastic performer can today leverage his or her
skills
across the global economy as never before.
One way of describing the plutocrats is as alpha geeks, and they are people who are acutely aware of how important highly sophisticated analytical and quantitative
skills
are in today's economy.
If you have good sleep, it increases your concentration, attention, decision-making, creativity, social skills, health.
Poor nutrition, access to water, climate change, deforestation, lack of skills, insecurity, not enough food, not enough healthcare, pollution.
You see companies like Cisco that are training so far four million people in I.T.
skills
to actually, yes, be responsible, but help expand the opportunity to disseminate I.T. technology and grow the whole business.
Perhaps hire people, give them the
skills
that they can take back to Africa, and their companies will grow an awful lot faster than most of ours here in the West.
Today, though, those
skills
are utterly useless because any idiot can now multiply eight-digit numbers accurately and instantly with a pocket calculator.
Conversely, I at age 75 am incompetent at
skills
essential for everyday life.
I just wanted to use my
skills
and build a school.
And my people now can use their
skills
to earn money themselves.
And the education system will need to evolve to ensure students are equipped with the right
skills.
That little girl has executive leadership skills."
As I see it, filmmakers, journalists, even bloggers are all required to face up to the social expectations that come with combining the intrinsic power of their medium with their well-honed professional
skills.
It might be irresistible as a tool to amplify our thinking and communication
skills.
They also needed the storytelling and leadership
skills
necessary to fund and execute it, and a mastery of science and technology with the ability and knowhow to push existing innovations even farther.
In conclusion, I've come to believe that the ingredients for the next Pantheons are all around us, just waiting for visionary people with the broad knowledge, multidisciplinary skills, and intense passion to harness them to make their dreams a reality.
The folks who know the
skills
about how to teach and engage an audience don't even know what teacher certification means.
He drops his voice at a very, very low volume when he wants people to key into him, and those things are the
skills
that we need for the most engaging teachers.
So why does teacher education only give you theory and theory and tell you about standards and tell you about all of these things that have nothing to do with the basic skills, that magic that you need to engage an audience, to engage a student?
There are teachers who, despite all their challenges, who have those skills, get into those schools and are able to engage an audience, and the administrator walks by and says, "Wow, he's so good, I wish all my teachers could be that good."
But one of the more wonky things about me is that I am an animal behaviorist, and I use those
skills
not to study animal behavior but to study how people in cities use city public spaces.
The résumé virtues are the ones you put on your résumé, which are the
skills
you bring to the marketplace.
We teach our kids chess, thinking maybe they will need analytical
skills.
We sign them up for team sports, thinking maybe they will need collaborative skills, you know, for when they go to Harvard Business School.
We honed our combat skills, we developed new equipment, we parachuted, we helicoptered, we took small boats, we drove, and we walked to objectives night after night to stop the killing that this network was putting forward.
Dr. Ma Thida, a leading human rights activist who had nearly died in prison and had spent many years in solitary confinement, told me she was grateful to her jailers for the time she had had to think, for the wisdom she had gained, for the chance to hone her meditation
skills.
So practicing throwing things has been shown to stimulate the frontal and parietal lobes, which have to do with visual acuity, 3D understanding, and structural problem solving, so it helps develop their visualization
skills
and their predictive ability.
These kinds of target-based practices also help kids develop attention and concentration skills, so those are great.
For those reasons, my social
skills
were lacking, to say the least, and growing up in a bigoted household, I wasn't prepared for the real world.
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