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Ehhh I social skills are overrated. As long as you're able to do effective collaboration and work within a team you dont need to be a social butterfly. The most
by MeImCounting 3y ago
Ehhh I social skills are overrated. As long as you're able to do effective collaboration and work within a team you dont need to be a social butterfly. The most successful engineers and researchers I know personally; are not particularly social people, obviously they're able to exist in polite company and collaborate etc but socialization is just another tool.
- ambicapter 3y agoSounds like a false equivalence. No one is saying you need to be a social butterfly. > The most successful engineers and researchers I know personally; are not particularly social people I've seen plenty of capable or at least promising engineers torpedo their development by not being to read the room or adjust their social behavior. > obviously they're able to exist in polite company and collaborate etc Ok, so having the skills is considered a baseline? Sounds like they're pretty important then.
- MeImCounting 3y agoYoure right basic social skills are absolutely a baseline but being charming/sociable/a social butterfly and being able to integrate into a team, collaborate, express technical ideas to others and vice versa arent necessarily the same thing. My most effective teachers/mentors/role models throughout my life were often by all accounts kind of awkward sometimes. I think we as a society put lots of emphasis on the former and conflate it with the latter.
- wintogreen74 3y ago>> The most successful engineers and researchers I know personally; are not particularly social people Could you imagine how successful they'd be if they added those skills?
- sneed_chucker 3y agoThe happiest and most successful people I know are social butterflies.