The Marriott pro gramme places great weight on building self-confidence, but it also covers more mundane skills.
Jorge Chabat of CIDE, a university in Mexico City, notes that part of what distinguishes the AFI's members are such mundane skills as being able to use a computer skills which most Mexican police seem to lack.
His career progression suggests to me that it is possible he is a quitter, has macho aspirations that are at odds with his somewhat more mundane skills as a computer technician, and that after his discharge from the army he tried to fuel these aspirations in the NSA and CIA, only to find out that both agencies were only willing to employ him in jobs that were nothing like those of Jason Bourne.
And what labor intensive manufacturing exists cannot be done competitively in the U.S. There's a reason why India will be assembling iPhones and the U.S. likely will not: those are mundane low skill jobs that could not pay a decent wage in the U.S.
And there are occasions when exalted principles are less valuable than mundane political skills.
Computer games have taught players how to slay dragons, build empires and blow up tanks, but they can also be used to teach more mundane skills.
Finding perfection in the mundane is a skill too many leave undeveloped, and undervalued.
Mary's captivity was long and wearisome, only partly allayed by the consolations of religion and, on a more mundane level, her skill at embroidery and her love of such little pets as lap dogs and singing birds.
You've heard of "mundane superpowers" — those unusual skills and abilities that most people have, but offer little value beyond their intrinsic quirkiness.
His special skill is taking something mundane, unremarkable or even ugly, adding a twist, and making it into something that women want now, now, now.
