Skills vs Education: what you need most to grow

Warda Muhammad Shafiq
3 min readNov 24, 2020

Education is to get knowledge about anything. We all know the importance of education in our life so I don’t think so I need to explain but my question is that only education is enough to grow and get success in life? or only skills enough to achieve progress in life?

today I’m going to share my experience with you and I’m damn sure it going to help you a lot that what mistake I did and you should not do at least after reading this article.

Let’s talk about the skills and their types:

Skill

skill is the particular ability that you can provide best in a specific given amount of time to the others. That makes you value able.

There are two types of skills;

Soft skills and hard skills let explain them one by one

Soft skills:

Soft skills are those skills that related to your character or the combination of people skills or interpersonal skills, in other words, distinguishing features of people’s nature, its blessing and you can polish and enhance it over time. These skills are intangible or non-technical skills like communication skills, time management, leadership, critical thinking, creative thinking, teamwork, problem-solving, and decision making.

Hard skills:

hard skills are those that tangible, technical, measure able, and teachable and can be learned by training and practice, in short, I can say that computer skills(programming and web development)or computer technology include in hard skills.

There are many people like me blindly running after a degree with no skill. But overtime education lost its importance. One of the world’s best universities Harvard researches tell us that degree loses its importance in two and a half year.

When we enter into practical life then we realize that only education is not enough we need both skills, both skills support each other. Like communication is the basic skill that you must need not only in your workplace but also in every field of life

It is the famous say nowadays that degree is just a piece of paper. Education has its own importance with along skill. Insolently both are given incomplete sense.

You need to learn hard skills related to your interest or work and after practice and repetition, you can enhance and polish your skill.

Education makes you valuable but skills make you a “Big Brand”. So never underestimate the skill start working on it now

Life is the name of balance in everything for example balance in food, balance in expenses and income so on we need to balance education and skill and usually people fail to balance them.

Both we need in specific ratio because life is a name of balance, for instance, let's take a very simple example balance in food, having more food make your condition worse so as we need to balance in education and skills. In a specific ratio, both can give you a bright future.

Education is the door to success and skill is the key to this door so without a key how can you open the door after finding your key to get your success.

Conclusion

We all get an education because we all know the importance of it but neglect the skill and forget work on the skill. Education and skill both are interrelated both make you complete the package. so don't waste your time like me and start working on your skill now because your future success is waiting for you.

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