Tacit skills are things that people know how to do but cannot quite put into words to explain or easily teach. Tacit skills are not substitutable — one person's ability to perform a tacit skill is not equivalent to another's. - Pulling the trigger - Interpreting micro clues (like body language) — emotional intelligence? — parents sensing their child is agitated - Prioritizing and triaging decisions in a sequence of steps — i.e., determining the order to carry out decisions in the most efficient way possible (thinking ahead ? ) - Putting an abstract thought into words easily — breaking down complex ideas into simple concrete atomic thoughts. Is this a skill? #someday - Listening actively, being a good conversation partner - Pattern recognition? — like the way nurses instinctively know something after having performed the same task or seen the same image hundreds of times, or the way manufacturing inspectors spot something wrong or out of place immediately — but they cannot explain how they knew — it was a culmination of all their experiences that alerted them — an unspoken expertise - Bouncing back from a loss or failure fast. Is this a skill? #someday - Being able to do something correctly the first time? Measure twice, cut once? Is this a skill? #someday - Seeing from another person's perspective? [[tacit skills]]