What Skills Are Important For You?

#354 Give a person one extra chance

Johan Rosén
Jul 21, 2017 · 2 min read

What if someone tells you to write 500 words in 10 minutes, or speak in front of 1000 people. Would you be ready to take the action?

Unfortunately, many people procrastinate on learning new skills. This leads to the moment of disappointment once the big opportunity shows up. If you don’t have the proper skills ready, you might miss the opportunity.

The important question here is, what skills do you think you need?

Social skills

One of the most important skills I’ve put many hours into is social skills. Once you get good at social skills you will begin to create an incredible social network.

If someone asks me to join an epic event, or invite me to a millionaires club. Then, I want to feel ready & have the right social tools.

After a lot of training I’ve earned many social tools, however, there are many things left to learn. This makes me very excited because there’s no end to this skill. You can always become better at it.

Experiment

Last year I meet a person who became a good friend of mine. Unfortunately, he took actions which created many disappointments. Usually, I give a second or at top three chances. However, I decided to give more chances to this person.

After not seeing this person for almost one year, I decided to meet him and we spoke about everything.

Thanks to my willingness of trying something new, and having the patience with this person. We found solutions and became better friends.

This action made me learn more about social skills.

Your challenge

Write down what skills you’re going to learn, so when big opportunities show up, you will be ready.


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