Sunday Thoughts: What Skills Could Determine Your Value? And Why Does It Matter?

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Have you ever considered what skills a person may have to attach an overall value of an individual? Each person has unique talents, abilities, and experiences, and itโ€™s challenging to make objective judgments about these skillsโ€™ value.

There has been much research done (here is one) on whether your skills are of nature or nurture. Here is another that suggests that nature has little to do with IQ (one part of a personโ€™s skills). The reality is that it is a bit of both. After researching various studies, the consensus is that IQ obtained from nature is between 20 to 40%, though some disagree. The point here is that, for sure, IQ and other skills are not 100% nature.

So what are some of the other โ€œskillsโ€ beyond IQ? There has been a lot of work done on developing skill frameworks that demonstrate this โ€“ herehere, and here are just a few. Putting on our thinking cap, one can ask, what would be a logical grouping (or framework) of all needed skills to be a successful person that is of equal weight? The following is one potential framework and is not far from what others have developed:

The following is a more detailed description of the four general, equal โ€œskillโ€ areas of this framework:

  • Interpersonal (25%) โ€“ are the behaviors and tactics a person uses to interact with others effectively. The term refers to a personโ€™s ability to work well with others. Interpersonal skills range from organizational skills, communication, listening, and the ability to see/act with social cues.
  • Character (25%) โ€“ skills here refer to the ability to self-motivate, have wisdom, emotional balance, common sense, take appropriate risks, leadership, ambition, work ethic, and moral behavior.
  • Innovation (25%) โ€“ skills refer to the talent of creating and exploiting new ideas to gain value.
  • IQ (25%) โ€“ the capacity for logic, analysis, understanding, learning, knowledge, reasoning, and problem-solving skills.

Looking at this model, if one merely focuses on taking an IQ test and measuring natureโ€™s IQ, it is highly problematic. One may only be looking at best, about 10% of the entire required โ€œskillsโ€ needed to be successful. Deviations within this 10% could easily be made up with other nature-based โ€œskillsโ€ and/or using nurture to supplement.

As a Sunday Thoughts, many believe that somehow the God of the Bible wants people to be equal in every sense. If not, non-Biblical believers use this as a point to critique and reject any notions of a โ€œjustโ€ God. In 1 Corinthians 12:4-6, it states, โ€œThere are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.โ€ This is a clear indication that individuals are intended to have different skill sets, and hence any success or levels of success would be apparent. Would it be an interesting world if everyone was the same?

In โ€œThe Parable of the Talentsโ€ in Matthew 25:14-30 (we wonโ€™t repeat this here, but please review if you may have forgotten), one of the clear aspects of this parable is that not only do individuals have differences, it is what you individually do with what talent (i.e., skills) you have. This brings us to a key point when it comes to your own level of skill values, as we have described here.

In our sometimes narcissistic and vanity-filled society, so many are quick to tell others how great their skill values are. One might be cautioned. If you claim to have these great skill values, then more may be required of you, and you may be judged accordingly. Perhaps one may want to be a little more humble to ensure the bar that measures us is not insurmountable.

In other words, someone with fewer skill values than you may be better off in the eyes of God because it is not the amount you have achieved, it is the amount you have achieved relative to your starting point. Remember, Mark 10:31 states, โ€œBut many who are first will be last, and the last first.โ€

By Tom Williams

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