"Reversing" is a skill mastered only by a handful of bowlers.
They don't necessarily translate to, say, selling major legislation, a skill mastered, for example, by Lyndon B. Johnson, hardly a compelling orator.
In pro football, the identifying, uncovering and proper use of a gap at the line of scrimmage is treated as a mystical, enigmatic pursuit, a skill mastered by few, and fewer still who are rookies.
Table 7 Phi-analyses of task-solving and skill-mastering on the basis of verbal protocols (example: task 3; extract: skills 1 8) Solver: task 3: n = 15 Non-solver: task 3: n = 11 Evidence for skill mastering Evidence for skill non-master phi p value Skill relevance (p < .05) REC 0 15 n.
For the next half century of Soviet rule, Lithuanians relied on Catholic tradition and memories of independence to preserve their national identity, a skill mastered through centuries of foreign domination.
So in essence, if students do not have a certain skill mastered because they don't seek out help for their lack of understanding, they will never be able to progress forward with other important skills.
Language is a skill mastered only by repetition.
If there are any skill masters in an area talk to them.
To perform offstage musicians now hone social-networking skills: mastering the blog post, the semi-candid photo, the not too overtly promotional self-promotion, the guarded personal revelation, the clever Tweet.
We could never agree on which higher-level classes would measure how much students learned the previous semester — in what class can you demonstrate the skills mastered in Blackface Minstrelsy?
