Adapting skills

Learning to transfer skills from one thing to another. Many people have the ability to analyse, record, remember things like football scores, dates of play, seasonal fixtures, historical moments of their team. They can also criticise playing tactics, management decisions, player line-ups and so on – yet say they do not understand politics for instance.

A mother can organise a family budget, make decisions on children’s needs on what is important, when it needs to be done, how much will need to be spent, what can be afforded, how to keep everyone happy with the decisions made – Yet claim to know nothing about economics.

Politics is only about how groups of people come to decisions democratically. Economics is about keeping as many people happy as possible through the decisions made.

We sometimes need to learn how to transfer our skills from one learning situation to another and apply what we know to situations we imagine we know nothing about.

John Dewey says "It is not what you learn – it is how you learn that is most important" What does he mean?

Have you ever thought about the skills you have
and how you could apply them to more ideas?