I’m hardly in the upper echelon when it comes to social skills, but I’m going to post this anyway…<\/p>\n
I’ve come to the conclusion that a person’s social skills are one of the most important things they learn. The problem is that they seem to be learned solely<\/em> through trial and error and observed experiences: no one ever teaches you anything formally. Some people are naturals. I just read an article about Obama, and he’s definitely one of them. Most people here, being a business school, have pretty good social skills. But we’ll periodically mingle with other schools. At a big convention we went to last year, I realized that some of the people there had terrible<\/em> social skills, to the point of being somewhat creepy.<\/p>\n I think it’s somewhat industry-specific. In the business world, you need strong social skills. If I’d gone on to become, say, a programmer as I once considered, it wouldn’t have been as<\/em> important, but it’d still be very important.<\/p>\n I view this as a sort of crisis. Too many mal-adjusted people are passing through our schools. In my opinion, it’s one of the most critical skills, and they’re just never getting taught. Let’s cut out history and replace it with Socializing 101. I never did like history anyway…<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m hardly in the upper echelon when it comes to social skills, but I’m going to post this anyway… I’ve come to the conclusion that a person’s social skills are one of the most important things they learn. The problem … Continue reading