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JRahm
Admin
AdminDevCentral Connects Question of the Week: What's one skill everyone should have?
On today's show, I posed the title question to both buulam and Jenn_Gile. Here's what we had to say:
Buu: Budgeting! Wasn't covered in school and really could have used the help.
Jenn: Curiosit...
Daniel_Wolf
MVP
MVPCritical thinking. Helps to analyze situations, perform research and ultimately it helps to solve problems.
JRahmAdmin
Adminthat's a good one! Do you have a go-to resource to sharpen that skill?
- Daniel_Wolf
Thanks Jason! I can recommend three books. At the time I read them I found them remarkable, because they discuss different ways to understand the origin of problems (or events).
- Thinking in systems by Donella H. Meadows
- The black swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Drift into failure by Sidney Dekker
Those a not really secret hints. All three books have been popular on some bestseller lists.
All of them were useful to challenge and adapt my own approach to look at problems.- JRahm
good deal, thanks for sharing, Daniel_Wolf
- buulam
This is great, adding this to my reading wish list!
