Ten Hard Skills to Learn That Will Last a Lifetime

Timeless tips for leaders and life in general

Many important lessons can be learned on a Wyoming ranch
Wed, 04/12/2017 - 12:02

To survive growing up on a remote cattle ranch in the middle of Wyoming, I needed to be scrappy, gritty, and tenacious. If I wasn’t keeping an eye out for rattlesnakes, I was avoiding horned bulls charging my horse as I tried to cut them from a herd of cows.

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I learned many important life lessons on that ranch, not the least is that it takes hard work, sweat, and mental toughness to get to the top and stay there. I took many of those lessons with me into the FBI as an undercover and counterintelligence agent for 24 years.

Here are 10 hard skills to learn that will last you a lifetime.

1. Hunt the good stuff

Positive thinkers are not optimists. Positive thinkers believe they will prevail in their circumstances rather than believing their circumstances will change; optimists believe their circumstances will eventually change for the better.

FBI agents are not optimists who hope or expect an arrest to go without a hitch; they prepare for the worst and practice ahead of time. When they do come across adversity, they don’t wait and hope things will change for the better. They adapt quickly to the new situation and remain flexible—choosing to remain positive—so that they will find a solution.

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Submitted by Shaik on Wed, 04/12/2017 - 23:34

Well 70 % in the article said is up to an extent fine. What I see is that as an FBI agent one is secured that you will get help most of the time up to maximum extent in case needed. And the thinking and doing things will be corresponding to the model.

There was a case and it was an experimental demonstration of two groups of people and have been divided of equal calibre. In the given situation one group has been given an access in case of extreme emergency can push the button and get out of the scene while the other is not given the button access and they must pass out of the situation. After the demostration was finished the group given the access button to use has done their job more efficiently, ofcourse they did not use the emergency button. But the other group to whom access is denied were less efficient.

However there is information useful to ponder over. Thanks for sharing.

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