Politics is one of those fields where being a little better at it makes you better at a lot of things (e.g. making friends, making compromises, making deals). T

Politics is one of those fields where being a little better at it makes you better at a lot of things (e.g. making friends, making compromises, making deals). That's unlike being, e.g., a slightly better programmer (if you're not a programmer already) or being a slightly better lock-picker.