Are We Missing The Boat Here [With More TOOLS Than SKILLS]?

 

Are we missing the boat these days?  That boat that would have brought us over to learn our SKILLS?  BUT instead, we are stuck in a quagmire, overwhelmed and buried under tons and tons of TOOLS which have been available, on-the-fly and right-on-our fingertips.  WHETHER your device is running on Android OR IOS is immaterial because both Google Play Store and App Store are right there.  And free download sites of free wares are just one too many, you will end up dizzier and more confused more than ever.  Are We Missing The Boat Here [With More TOOLS Than SKILLS]📗📙📘

You might stomp me with "WHAT'S THE FUSS?"  Here's the fuss dude.  With technology taking over our lives [regardless WHETHER you live in the First World OR even deep down Myanmar or the remote African regions, the point is almost all of us [and that includes me, BTW] are caught up in learning new tools and newer tools and then the newest tools.  Point is, we should NOT get too caught up in learning TOOLS WHEN it's the SKILLS that will help us most📌📌📌

You might retort that TOOLS do help us.  Without those TOOLS, even our SKILLS may have been of little help.  True and very true BUT here's the flip side.  Let us NOT get mixed up between TOOLS and SKILLS.  WHILE TOOLS will help us cross over to perform a specific step OR action, SKILLS will equip and reinforce our arsenal of capabilities for the long haul.  That's the huge difference between them.  Tools come and go WHEREAS SKILLS will get developed especially if we keep enhancing and nurturing them.  For techies, web development is a good example because of the multiple technology stacks and tools and each of them peddle their respective UPSIDEs & DOWNSIDEs💧💧💧

True, that analogy may make me sound to be contradicting because logic will tell us, WHY bother with other technologies WHEN you as a techie can do multiple things in a single stack?  Let's take a more practical view here.  If your goal is simply to get a job, then surely keeping your options open is the best way to go BUT WHAT IF if you're looking at 5 potential businesses.  Your options get narrowed then💥💥💥

Our takeaway:  Sticking up to the TOOLS thread, once you learned a TOOL, the theory of it will help us learn a similar tool BUT WHAT IF you learn programming languages, WHILE they have similarities, they vary in syntax and in the long haul, your capabilities widen based on your SKILLS which could have spread out.  For those worrying that they might end up as a MASTER OF NONE, just DON'T worry too much, DON'T pre-empt problems WHICH very much farther down the road.  LIVE IN THE MOMENT, LIVE IN THE PRESENT and endeavor to be more SKILLED while TOOLS are just available on-the-fly😌😌😌