Skills are most valuable and essential to prove your knowledge and uniquely get identified. But wait, are you sure that the learning process you are following is building a new skill, or you are enhancing your current capabilities or devasting something to build a new understanding?
Here are the three types of getting skilled: upskilled, reskilled, and unskilled.
Upskilled: This is the process of enhancing existing or adjacent skills. You may be learning more complex concepts of a programming language, learning a particular genre of music in depth, understanding new techniques and rules of a sport etc. This will make someone more specialized in a particular field of interest, a go-to person, and would help to build up your passion.
Reskilled: Develop new skills to pivot from an expiring skill set towards an in-demand skill. You may be learning a new programming language, exploring new ways of marketing your product, teaching the students using new digital mediums or changing your backyard garden to grow some commercial crops.
Unskilled: You might be wondering do we ever get unskilled once we are skilled. Definitely yes! If you don’t practice something for a very long time or lose interest in something you were skilled in for years, then after being completely out of regular practice, you would get unskilled again in that area.
Learning includes all three, strengthening the existing knowledge and building in-depth, exploring new alternatives and completely forgetting something, and rebuilding the understanding as the previous skill would be interfering with understanding the new one.