I’m not American, but in my view the author confuses one sort of skills with the other. Of course you have to adjust to a job, learn a thing or two and optimize

I’m not American, but in my view the author confuses one sort of skills with the other. Of course you have to adjust to a job, learn a thing or two and optimize few edge cases. We call that experience, skills that come with events naturally. But it doesn’t come naturally when you have to operate a company, raise a building, manage a contract, drill a tooth, etc. Getting these skills through trial and error is not only uneconomical but sometimes harmful or criminal. You may create a separate word for it, but it will be used as an euphemism to the exact phenomenon, because these don’t go away with renaming.