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There’s technical skills which are are traditionally called the hard skills and then there’s the other world.
These are the non-technical skills and I love the simplicity of there. There’s technical skills and there’s non-technical skills and these have been called the soft skills.
Now I don’t know again where they got this word soft from. I’ve been reading literature sometimes and they introduce soft skills and they will literally have like fluffy bunnies and cotton swabs and pillows to start to explain soft skills as if they’re easy and they’re not easy.
Matter of fact, if you were to do anything, I would flip them and call the soft skills the hard skills and then called to talk about technical skills.
It’s kind of like the soft, easy things that we can get and we can actually see and observe. So if you were to ask me, I would flip them. But we’re going to try and even just get away from these terms, because there’s so many different ways of expressing them.
I’ve heard them called power skills, which I like a lot better. Essential skills, way better than soft skills. And I’m just going to start talking to them as a new term, not really a new term, this term’s been around a long time.
But sometimes I don’t see people making this obvious, very obvious connection. Soft skills are emotional intelligence skills. Let’s just make that connection right in there, right here.
And now soft skills are emotional intelligence skills. And a lot of times skills, soft skills have not been easily defined. But one of the cool things we’re going to learn is that they’ve actually put a lot of work into emotional intelligence and making that connection, and they have done a great job of actually defining what these things are.
