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“In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.”

Moments Happiness Skills Acquisition

Book:Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness

Source: Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness

“It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.”

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Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.”

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Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow