A skill is the learnt capacity or talent to carry out pre-determined results often with the minimum outlay of time, energy, or both. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills. For example, in the domain of work, some general skills would include time management, teamwork and leadership, self motivation and others, whereas domain-specific skills would be useful only for a certain job.

Examples

• Academic skills
  • Reading
  • Logic
  • Critical Reasoning
• Interpersonal communication
  • Speech: listening, talking
  • Nonverbal communication
  • Literacy: writing, reading
• Motor skills
  • Walking, arts and crafts, craft, sport
• Skilled labor
• Innovation Skills

Miscellaneous

• Charisma
• Perception
• Persuasion
• Procedural memory, knowledge, expertise, fluency
• Profession
• Theory of multiple intelligences
• Thinking and intelligence, IQ

See also

• Deskilling
• Child
• Competence
• Four stages of competence
• Game of skill
• Human development theory
• Incompetence
• Individual capital
• Online skill-based game
• Transferable skills analysis
• Habit (psychology)

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