Skill stacking

Skill stacking means, in my own words, piling skills that really don´t have anything in common to make mountain that will help me reach something worth reaching. Like a job or even a career.

The idea of skill stacking is something easily understandable and something that even I can get behind. It is kind of comforting to know that I don´t really need to be perfect or even extremely good at a skill for me to utilize it to be efficient or good at something. By something I mean a thing that isn´t even something I would ever imagine needing the skill for.

Kind of like this. The pieces do not align, but it still makes it whole.

Personally, I don´t think that I am excellent at anything, just kind of good at some things, and I really don´t even think most of them alonewill be useful in everyday life or any job or career I´ll ever have.

But even some of the skills I have contradict some quite big weaknesses that I have, which make things weird, since they are essentially the same thing but in different fonts. Well, maybe not exactly, but still, I have no idea how it happened and why. To give an example, I am a baker-confectioner by education (graduated few years ago), and can confidently say that I am good at decorating and making pretty things out of stuff that will get eaten, but lack the skill to understand how cooking works. To be fair, I will stay far away from all pots and pans, but these things are both something consumable, but somehow still in my opinion so far away from each other that they could be from the other sides of the universe.

Even with a problem like that, I think that focusing on just getting better at other things, instead of something that I am bad at to begin with is not the best solution. Some skills are just basic knowledge and life-skills, that literally are needed to live.

So, I imagine that even small steps will help in bettering myself in this thing, that in my mind has become essentially my personal sleep paralysis demon. And in time, this will become part of the mountain (or rather a pile) of skill I will some day use to understand something completely different.

I think that getting even kind of good with small steps will eventually get me to the point that I can call it a skill will take quite some time. But maybe I can learn multiple skills at the same time, and use them to get better at the other thing I´m learning? At the same time?

Propably worth trying.