How can I properly develop my skills?

Much has already been said about aptitudes. However, are we really clear about what they are? A possible definition would refer to those capabilities that a person has to achieve a goal.

The skills refer to both the psychological and the physical or corporal spheres.. We can talk about aptitudes that are highly conditioned by genetics and others that have been sown and cultivated by the environment itself. Thus, we can say that there are people who are born especially gifted to carry out work in certain fields and also people who achieve this gift thanks to extensive training and deliberate practice.

There are innate aptitudes and learned aptitudes

All people have innate abilities. From a young age, there are people who have an ideal physical constitution for some sports, or manual, artistic, social, intellectual skills, etc.

If they are not developed enough, it is difficult for this facility to condition the person’s life.. Thus, for example, we find people with a natural gift for a certain activity and yet they have never considered dedicating themselves to it or developing it in depth. It is then when we have that feeling that we are facing a talent that is somehow being wasted.

Other times, initial skills suffer due to various vital factors. These factors can be, for example, trauma, physical or mental deficiencies or simply age. As we see, skills can deteriorate.

The development of individual skills

In practice, the development of different individual abilities is conditioned by circumstances that act within three fundamental lines. These lines are the following: proportionality with trends, constancy and polarization.

Aptitudes become instruments of trends, since, in short, they represent the greater or lesser capacity to achieve a specific objective. We refer to trends as what we want to achieve.

When the objective of the trends is adjusted to our abilities, it is very likely that we will achieve it. In this case, we say that we act realistically, setting goals that we can achieve with effort. At the same time, on the path to the set goal we will develop all that potential related to our responsibility in achieving the achievement.

All this makes us willing to try to achieve progressively higher objectives, since, gradually, we will be truly capable of achieving them. In this way, it is important Set concrete short-term goals that are in proportion to our potential.

On the contrary, If the objectives are not proportional to our abilities, the risk of failure increases.. At this point, we are likely to feel frustrated and want to give up. On the other hand, if the objectives are too simple, we will develop our skills less. We will, therefore, reach a lower level than what would correspond to us.

Therefore, it is important to know our abilities. Once known, the job of polishing them is ours.

Consistency is essential in the development of our skills

Consistency is also an important factor. Long-term goals are always full of setbacks, great advances and setbacks. Of moments of great faith and others of great hopelessness in which only inertia seems to keep us going.

One way to increase consistency, to shore up this inertia, is remember the reasons we pursue what we pursue. This is important so that obstacles do not overcome our motivation.

Let us remember the need that is established at a given moment to polarize our efforts in a certain direction. It is better that our attitudes are oriented towards objectives that are within specific fields; Generally these fields correspond to the work or professional field.

The dispersion of objectives is an obstacle to achieving them. Our time is limited and we have no choice but to make a decision and choose those skills that we want to develop at the expense of others. Many times, the range of options only ends up blocking the person, who gets lost between what they want, what is best for them, what others want and what others think is best for them.

We are not talking about exaggerated specialization. Rather, it is an intelligent direction of efforts towards a certain field to delve deeper into it. Going deeper into several, with the amount of knowledge that is produced every day, is an almost impossible task no matter how great our humanistic spirit may be.

As we have seen, the development of skills depends on the proportionality with trends, constancy and polarization. If we take these factors into account, we will be able to develop our skills intelligently and realize our potential.

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