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Personal-Skills

This page exists to disseminate information on personal skills. Personal skills are transferable between occupations and lifestyles, and they are the sorts of skills, which are generally used to improve ones ability to get the most out of life. They could more accurately be referred to as 'Life-skills'.

Contents

Mental Skills
Physical Skills
Social Skills
Ethical Skills
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Mental Skills

What constitutes a mental life-skill? A skill which contributes towards the upkeep of ones mental health or a skill which allows one to use ones mind more efficiently. Mental life skills allow you to train your memory to retain knowledge more efficiently, reason with that knowledge to acquire new knowledge & perceive how best to use ones memory.

Knowledge

Reasoning

Physical Skills

What constitutes a physical life-skill? A skill which contributes towards the upkeep of ones physical health or a skill which allows one to utilise ones body more efficiently. Physical life skills allow you to sustain yourself, develop your physical potential and use your physical abilities.

Sustenance

Development.

Weight Training.
Stretching. A comprehensive and informative document on stretching by Brad Appleton.
Mobility training. Basic exercises which help one to become more balanced and maintain fitness into old-age.

Skills.

More to come.

Social Skills

What constitutes a social life-skill? A skill which contributes towards the upkeep or development of ones social-life, or a skill which allows one to interact with people with greater ease. Social skills represent ones ability to determine how best to react to other people, and how to behave in given situations. Social life skills allow you to train your personal, interpersonal and multipersonal abilities.

Personal.

Hypnotism. Hypnosis may be used for relaxation and stress relief.
Building self-confidence and self-esteem.
Learning to relax.
Managing yourself and your time.

Interpersonal.

Assertiveness. Not yet complete.
Communication skills.
How to get laid. By Leanne Hayes.
How to fuck up relationships. By Mary Anne. An amusing take on what not to do to have a positive relationship.
How to spot the socialised psycho there are some people with whom contact can only prove damaging. Here is how to spot them, before it is too late.
Relationship duties. Relationships involve give and take; here is an amusing guideline.

Multi-personal.

Presentation-skills.

Ethical Skills

What constitutes an ethical life-skill? A skill which contributes towards the upkeep or development of ones integrity. A skill which allows one to be more sure in determining right from wrong and to determine a just course of action, in a given circumstance.

Integrity

More to come.

Justice

The tenets of revenge.

Morals

More to come.

Author

This page has been created by and is maintained by, Andrew Coll.

You can contact him at [email protected] In fact, if you have any feedback on this or any other of his pages, such as hints, tips, more personal skills resources, or wantonly destructive criticism, please do.

Parting thought: "To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give It." - John Churton Collins

Last Revised: 06/12/1998