Skills are Weapons of Life

Do you want to be the person that you always wanted to be? Want to fulfil your desires? Your dreams? To achieve this, in today’s globally competitive world with rapid changes in technology, anybody for that matter, including non-working professionals also need to develop strong skills that enhance performance and productivity in their respective fields. Skills are like currency in this competitive world.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist, known for his theory of flow, the secret behind happiness. He explains his flow theory through a graph, Y-axis represents Challenges and X-axis represents Skills. If the challenge is high and skill is low people experience stress and anxiety. If the challenge is low and skill is high people experience boredom and no fun.

He explains people experience the state of flow when there is a right balance between the two, that is challenge and skill. People who are in this state are more focused, creative, innovative, and productive. They enjoy their work, always think positive and are always happy.

When I say skill, it is not limited to technical skill. You name it, everything requires a skill. For example, there are many books on skills. “How to Text a Girl”, “How to Win Every Argument of your Spouse”, “How to Save Your Marriage”.

Another famous theory developed by Laurence J. Peter is called Peter Principle. It is a management concept. It states that, “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” If a person who is competent at his job, he gets promoted to the next senior position which requires different skills. If the person is competent at his new role, he will be promoted again and will continue to be promoted until he eventually reaches a level at which he is incompetent.

“Education may fetch you a job, but only your skills assure you promotions and sustenance.” Each role and responsibility requires different skills. For example:

• A technically talented person may fail to perform a management role.
• A professionally successful person may fail to manage personal life.
• A talkative person or a renowned author may not be a good orator.

You may have a question, how one can master every skill. For that, we need to apply the Pareto principle, also known as the 80/20 rule. It states that roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. Applying the same theory, 20% of our skill fetch 80% of the result. We Just need to master 20% of the skills to reach our goals.

Most of us are “Jack of all trades, masters of none.” We need to understand that only a few skills are vital to our success, and those skills need to be mastered. Learning many other skills is essential, but we need not be a master in that.

Skills not only help us to face challenges, but it also saves time, effort, money and energy, and fetches name, fame, and success. Not knowing the importance of skills development, we blame fate, insufficient time, and feel stressed and exhausted. Learning the necessary skills is like investing money. Never ignore the power of compounding benefits. By having the right skills, many things in life can be done in a much smarter and more effective way, and we will get time for every aspect of our life. “Quality of life depends on the quality of our acquired skills.”

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