The most important skill is the meta-skill: the skill to acquire and improve skills. This requires resilience, patience, self-critical thinking, etc. A beginni

The most important skill is the meta-skill: the skill to acquire and improve skills. This requires resilience, patience, self-critical thinking, etc. A beginning hacker uses tools. An advanced hacker improves tools. A great hacker invents tools. An enlightened hacker sees (and invents/improves/uses) himself as a tool.