Transferrable Skills

Thought experiment time:

If you were to compete against 10 random humans.

What activity or competition would you lose at 9 times out of 10?

Why would you lose so often? What skill or ability are you lacking? It is pretty hard to pinpoint, because you don’t know what you don’t know.

Once you start to make progress and have successes, you will be able to better identify the skill that you are gaining.

These new skills can be applied to all sorts of challenges in your life.

• The patience you learn while playing hide and seek, staying calm while you are scared, is invaluable while learning to swim. If you can refrain from flailing, calmly floating on your back will keep you alive much longer.

• Learning to write longhand, the fine motor dexterity will help a surgeon with the scalpel.

• The ability to be a good teammate in high school sports… Staying focused and positive despite being mad about your losses. Supporting teammates that made errors, while challenging them around their failures. These skills will all help with team work and employment.

Explore skills, whether or not they appear to be related to your goals. You never know how you can apply these new transferrable skills.