Character Skills

Definite Competitiveness in an Uncertain Future

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What Are Character Skills?

Character skills are internalized capabilities formed through repeatedly choosing to prioritize goals and values over your inherent nature.

Character skills serve as your personal capability platform, allowing you to build any hard or soft skills on top of them and respond flexibly to changes in your skill set.

In the face of an uncertain future, character skills are the most critical competencies to develop.

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Hard Skills
Soft Skills
Character Skills

Core Character Skills

Intellectual Engagement

An attitude of enjoying and actively pursuing learning opportunities

Openness

Willingness to accept and try new ideas or experiences

Initiative

Tendency to start tasks promptly and act voluntarily

Resilience

Ability to adapt flexibly to unexpected situations or changes

Self-Control

Ability to regulate your thoughts and behavior while maintaining prudence

Social Awareness

Ability to understand social cues and respond appropriately to situations

Teamwork

Ability to achieve productive collaboration through empathy and cooperation

Growth Mindset

Belief that abilities can be developed through challenge and effort

Why Character Skills Matter

You Can Develop Your Career Beyond Innate Personality

Character skills differ from personality. While maintaining your inherent tendencies and temperament, character skills allow you to make choices that prioritize values and goals over your natural inclinations when needed.

They Form a Long-term, Stable Capability Platform

Character skills persist even as environments change. Capabilities formed without the foundation of character skills are unstable, but those with strong character skills create sustainable results even when circumstances change.

You Can Handle Practical Skills More Effectively

People with solid character skills have advantages in acquiring new technologies. The gap between them and those who only pursue surface-level skills continues to widen.

How to Develop Character Skills

1

Understand Yourself

Identify your innate temperamental traits and character skills you already possess. You can discover these through feedback you frequently receive, tools you often use, and areas where you feel frustrated with others.

2

Learn

Study concepts related to your desired character skills through books. Many character skills have already been published as bestsellers.

3

Find Environments

Find or create environments where you can practice. Look for places where people with your desired character skills gather.

4

Practice

Apply, fail, and apply again. Character skills are ultimately proven through action. Don't fear failure, just repeat the process.

5

Focus on the Core

Deeply develop one character skill that is most prominently manifested in you. Others will grow together according to its depth.

"Even in an uncertain future, what's certain is my character skill. Character skills already exist within us. Just start discovering them, naming them, and nurturing them. The earlier you start, the bigger they'll grow."
- Jun Lee, PM at Woowa Brothers

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