How do we improve our skills?

Let us think about what skills are important for us to increase our abilities. Most people think of hard skills as technical skills and soft skills as people skills. Although there is some truth to that, it is not a solid definition of hard and soft skills. Some people believe that hard skills or technical skills, because they are hard, are difficult, but that is not a solid definition either.

What are hard skills?

We do not call hard skills hard because they are difficult. We call them hard because they are precise. Hard skills are skills that need specific precision. Imagine, for example, typing on a keyboard.

You need to be very precise with your finger movements to type fast; the more precisely your fingers move on a keyboard, the faster you type. To be a better typist, what you need to do is improve the precision of your fingers’ movement – the faster your brain is able to send signals to your fingers, the faster you’...