For the record, what are some skills we should consider as important, regardless of who in particular currently considers them interesting, insofar as they’re useful for a wide variety of careers. Here is a general list I have so far:
writing skills
public speaking skills
coding
ability to usefully analyze data. (I’m not studying a quantitative field, so I lack the experience to know what these abilities might be specifically other than ‘statistical analysis skills’.)
web design
What am I missing? When are the skills I mentioned above not actually important?
If you want something very evidence based you might take the feeling good handbook and do CBT written exercises 15 minutes per day.
Doing meditation is another way.
Nassim Taleb who’s one of the people who aren’t ex-politicians who can charge very high speaking fees made the point of not doing any public speaking training to the point of changing his publisher when the first publisher suggest he take a training.
I did spent 4 years at toastmasters and don’t consider that time to have been worthless but having control of your emotional state and being able to go into emotions that deeply move you turned out to be more important for me than trying to reduce the amount of ah’s, consciously trying to look at the audience and consciously making controlled body movement.
Those tactics have effects but if you are in the right emotional state you automatically look at your audience and you automatically use your body to illustrate what you are saying.
The professor most popular among the students in the department of computer science of my university did a lot of personal development and dealing with his own deep issues. That makes him better a better speaker at lectures than his colleagues and it also makes him a person who finishes papers for conferences weeks before the deadline with most of his colleagues don’t do according to him.
Don’t spent all your time on learning tactics but engage yourself at a deep level.
Well, I’m currently an undergraduate, so I haven’t started a career yet. For myself, personally, I would like to create a website in the future. Also, web design is useful in a wide variety of contexts. For coding, I’m not set on a career trajectory yet, but I may want to transition into one which would require a heavier use of information technology.
I’ve read on Less Wrong that learning how to code, or program, is a worthwhile skill to learn, even if one is not going on to become a computer programmer.
I don’t know statistics very well, but I would like to participate, or follow, scientific, and technical, discourse in the world more thoroughly, so learning statistics might be for my overall efficacy as a person, rather than just what I do at the workplace.
For the record, what are some skills we should consider as important, regardless of who in particular currently considers them interesting, insofar as they’re useful for a wide variety of careers. Here is a general list I have so far:
writing skills
public speaking skills
coding
ability to usefully analyze data. (I’m not studying a quantitative field, so I lack the experience to know what these abilities might be specifically other than ‘statistical analysis skills’.)
web design
What am I missing? When are the skills I mentioned above not actually important?
I think you are missing emotional management.
If you want something very evidence based you might take the feeling good handbook and do CBT written exercises 15 minutes per day. Doing meditation is another way.
Nassim Taleb who’s one of the people who aren’t ex-politicians who can charge very high speaking fees made the point of not doing any public speaking training to the point of changing his publisher when the first publisher suggest he take a training.
I did spent 4 years at toastmasters and don’t consider that time to have been worthless but having control of your emotional state and being able to go into emotions that deeply move you turned out to be more important for me than trying to reduce the amount of ah’s, consciously trying to look at the audience and consciously making controlled body movement.
Those tactics have effects but if you are in the right emotional state you automatically look at your audience and you automatically use your body to illustrate what you are saying.
The professor most popular among the students in the department of computer science of my university did a lot of personal development and dealing with his own deep issues. That makes him better a better speaker at lectures than his colleagues and it also makes him a person who finishes papers for conferences weeks before the deadline with most of his colleagues don’t do according to him.
Don’t spent all your time on learning tactics but engage yourself at a deep level.
Decent list here.
Why do you think that coding, web design and data analysis are useful skills (for a non-programmer in a non-quantitative field)?
Well, I’m currently an undergraduate, so I haven’t started a career yet. For myself, personally, I would like to create a website in the future. Also, web design is useful in a wide variety of contexts. For coding, I’m not set on a career trajectory yet, but I may want to transition into one which would require a heavier use of information technology.
I’ve read on Less Wrong that learning how to code, or program, is a worthwhile skill to learn, even if one is not going on to become a computer programmer.
I don’t know statistics very well, but I would like to participate, or follow, scientific, and technical, discourse in the world more thoroughly, so learning statistics might be for my overall efficacy as a person, rather than just what I do at the workplace.