XFrequentist comments on Non-obvious skills with highly measurable progress? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: XFrequentist 04 January 2015 10:11:49PM 2 points [-]

I credit an undergrad summer job in door-to-door sales for moving my social skills from "terrible" to "good". For that particular job we literally had a points system that was visible to everyone in the office (and determined incentives like fully-paid vacations abroad), and you'd sell enough on a daily basis that you knew roughly how you were doing (ie 5 sales was a decent day, 10 outstanding, 2 bad, out of perhaps 100 interactions), so it was a near-perfect training ground.