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Expiring vs. Permanent Skills

Expiring vs. Permanent Skills

The Psychology of Money with Morgan Housel vor 2 Jahren

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Expiring skills tend to get more attention. They’re more likely
to be the cool new thing, and a key driver of an industry’s
short-term performance. They’re what employers value and
employees flaunt.

Permanent skills are different. They’ve been around a long time,
which makes them look stale and basic. They can be hard to define
and quantify, which gives the impression of fortune-cookie wisdom
vs. a hard skill.

But permanent skills compound over time, which gives them quiet
importance. When several previous generations have worked on a
skill that’s directly relevant to you, you have a deep well of
relevant examples to study. And when you can spend a lifetime
perfecting one skill whose importance never wanes, the payoffs
can be ridiculous. Anything that compounds over decades usually
is.

This episode discusses a few permanent skills that apply to many
fields.