https://publish.obsidian.md/mindskills-playbook/_MindSkills+Playbook/Mindskills+101

• Knowledge is important, but skills are way more important. You can often get the knowledge as you learn the skill. Rarely the other way around.
• There is a special set of universal skills that cut across all areas of your personal and work life that enable all the other skills. I call these MindSkills.

These are the MindSkills that are the foundation of all other skills. Work on them first. I recommend ALL of them, a few minutes a day, rather than sequentially, since they all influence each other and stand together as a system.

• Self Awareness
• Curiosity
• Speed Learning
• Communication, Listening, & Persuasion
• Goal setting/purpose
• Problem-solving
• Creativity and Idea Generation
• Decision-making
• Project Management
• Emotional Control

Let's do a simple summary of each

This usually means awareness of one's thoughts, attitudes, and feelings. In addition, I include the most overlooked but most important: Going Meta: Awareness of and control over the Processes that you are in, while you are in them. Your habits, practices, procedures, methods, etc.

• The desire to know. The desire to satisfy one's wonder.

Reason is our ultimate verification and survival tool. It is an evidence-based method of processing information so that you can know things that you haven't directly experienced. It is a way of knowing the truth, and of correcting misconceptions.

All learning is self-learning. Some learning is guided, some not, but nobody can put ideas into your head, heart, and hands. You must master how to approach a new area, get the lay of the land, and acquire the knowledge and skills to master it.