That Massive Chasm Between WANTING & CAPABILITY

 

Everyone has his overflowing and sometimes endless WANTS, right? And that desire is nothing to snide because everyone has his rights, right?  You might wonder then, WHERE'S THE BEEF here?  YES, it's that massive chasm between our WANTs vis-a-vis our CAPABILITIES.  And I guess this is way beyond any debate OR argument because every adult needs certain CAPABILITIES to get and keep a job, to provide responsive care for one's family, managing one's household and contributing productively.  You might wonder, WHAT happens WHEN those needed CAPABILITIES are not honed or acquired?  YES, we've got to pay the price for such shortfalls.  BUT let's NOT get embroiled with zillions of CAPABILITIES because that's one too many to handle.  Instead, let's zero-in on the very LIFE SKILLs because these are the very factors that may make OR break us💥💥💥

BUT before some of us get scared, LIFE SKILLS is NO rocket science.  Any skill that is useful in life can be considered a LIFE SKILL, and that's a CAPABILITY.  Broadly speaking, our LIFE SKILLS capability is usually unique  amongst us all because each of us have our own list of SKILLS we consider as most essential in our life.  Someone living in a remote rural community might put driving a car high on their list of essential skills while a New Yorker OR Londoner would probably rank that pretty low.  WHY DON'T we dice and drill!!!

Broadly speaking, our CAPABILITIES should never just gloss over these key areas:

• Decision-making & problem-solving SKILLS
• Creative thinking & critical thinking SKILLS
• Communication & interpersonal SKILLS
• Self-awareness & empathy
• Assertiveness & equanimity
• Resilience Resilience Resilience

It's very true that domain areas require those specialist SKILLs that become the very core of our CAPABILITIES but those are specialist SKILLs whereas these 6 MUST-HAVEs were the result of a combined research by the United Nations agencies namely WHO, UNICEF and UNESCO.  And this list should be the least of our surprises because these are generalist SKILLS everyone recognizes as important and the same ones that many people pursue even with life coaches😐😐😐

Our takeaway:  Much as we recognize that it is those specialist skills that seemingly catapult us to the peak and zenith of our successes in life, let us NOT downplay the value and criticality of those generalist skills because as they form the very core of our foundational layers, we can aptly claim that you will be hard pressed to scale up many notches unless and until you have these very core CAPABILITIES.  Ignore the core CAPABILITIES and the likelihood is you could probably suffer not just isolated cases of shortfalls BUT likely more than less.  WHY?  It all boils down to this massive chasm between our WANTING vis-a-vis our CAPABILITIES.  Take your pick dude!!!