Skill Stacking Is The Way

Skill stacking is the process of stacking skills on top of your main skill to make your overall skill more valuable.

For instance, your main skill, the foundation block is teaching. So you just explain the intellectual concepts to your students whether it be the “typical school education” or a course. What if you adopt the mindset of a lifelong student and learn till your death? That’s the mindset of skill-stacking. To stack endless skills on your pivotal skill.

No-brainer the skill can vary from person to person but the process of skill stacking is the same.

Read the above skill stacking definition again and ask yourself: “Which skills if acquired on top of my current skills would make it more valuable?”

Again, let’s take the eg of teaching. When you learn humor and persuasion, understand the basic idea of psychology on how to deal with the emotions of students, and read books like How To Win Friends And Influence People to understand students and stack them on top of your main skill, your overall skill which of teaching becomes so much more valuable!

Because now you aren’t just a teacher but a person who can make their students’ learning fun and also develop persuasiveness to make the students fall in love with their education without intimidating them.

When you go for interviews to find a job, instead of having to put just a single skill in your resume, you can skill-stack your way up and increase your value in money too.

The 80/20 rule

In terms of your career, you have just to be at the top at 1-2 of your skills and not try to master every single skill that you intend to learn.

Take it this way: If your skill stack is WRITING+CONTENT CREATION+TEACHING+MARKETING and so on. Here, if you master writing and content creation which will already take you nearly 5-6 years to be at the top of your game, and then try to master marketing, it’s going to take you nearly a decade to perfect your marketing skills because it is a wide topic.

So it’s counterintuitive to put so many years in trying to perfect all your skills. Just have a basic idea of all the skills except your foundational 1-2 skills.

So, spend 80% of your time learning the main skills and the remaining 20% learning the skills you want to stack.

I am repeating this as it is crucial: Don’t fall into the trap of perfectionism by trying to perfect all skills, it’s going to take you a lifetime or even more if you intend to do it. Only master the base block, your main skill, and just have a basic idea of every other skill.

It’s not that you can just stack skills. You can stack knowledge too. Stacking the knowledge of financial literacy on top of your main skill, stacking basic knowledge on human nature, etc.

Skill stacking is one of the best things you can do for your professional and personal life as it can improve you enormously as a person and make you seem more valuable thus outworking everyone and gaining an unfair advantage.