http://www.toddhester.net/rantings/2006/04/03/important-skills/ Random articles, thoughts, ideas, musings, rantings, and more from me!! Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:49:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.toddhester.net/rantings/2006/04/03/important-skills/#comment-4 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:52:45 +0000 http://www.toddhester.net/rantings/2006/04/03/important-skills/#comment-4 [...] In an earlier post, I said I thought one of the most important skills in life is to be able to separate imporant information from unimporant information.  I think another one is knowing when to stop work on something.  The last 5% of a project always takes longer than the first 95%.  I know the perfectionists out there will disagree with me, but at a point I think the cost/benefit ratio says you should stop working on something.  Anyway, these are examples of some skills that someone should teach maybe?  Probably more important are social skills and dealing with your boss, etc.  I certainly like their ideas for have the admissions be more based on problem solving and creativity than academic scores. [...] […] In an earlier post, I said I thought one of the most important skills in life is to be able to separate imporant information from unimporant information.  I think another one is knowing when to stop work on something.  The last 5% of a project always takes longer than the first 95%.  I know the perfectionists out there will disagree with me, but at a point I think the cost/benefit ratio says you should stop working on something.  Anyway, these are examples of some skills that someone should teach maybe?  Probably more important are social skills and dealing with your boss, etc.  I certainly like their ideas for have the admissions be more based on problem solving and creativity than academic scores. […]

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