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7 fact-checked facts about practical skills and how people learn them, each with the reason behind it. 5 more are in today's round and join this page after it closes.

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The basics

Which is an example of a soft skill?

AnswerCommunication

Soft skills are interpersonal abilities like communication.

Which is an example of a hard skill?

AnswerCoding

Hard skills are teachable technical abilities.

Going deeper

Who popularized the 10,000-hour rule in the book Outliers?

AnswerMalcolm Gladwell

Gladwell popularized it in 2008.

What is the basic three-ball juggling pattern called?

AnswerCascade

The three-ball cascade is the first pattern most jugglers learn.

Who created the Pomodoro Technique?

AnswerFrancesco Cirillo

Francesco Cirillo developed it in the late 1980s.

Expert level

The Pomodoro Technique is named after what?

AnswerA tomato-shaped kitchen timer

Pomodoro is Italian for tomato.

Who described the forgetting curve?

AnswerHermann Ebbinghaus

Ebbinghaus studied memory decay in the 1880s.

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