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This is the fourth in a series of books devoted to the study of real skills. A skilled person is one who achieves his objectives effectively, that is by an optimal expenditure of effort, attention and other resources working within his native capacities of strength, vision, intelligence, sensitivity and so forth. It is difficult if not impossible to measure in a quantitative sense. There is, however, no question about its presence or absence. The differences between a highly skilled performer and a mediocre one are so readily manifest that there is no ambiguity. The student of skill is a person interested in what these differences are and how they originate.
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Singleton, W.T. (1983). Introduction. In: Singleton, W.T. (eds) Social Skills. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7819-8_1
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