Break the Mold: 4 Unexpected Skills That Can Help You Achieve More

Darius Foroux
5 min readMay 5, 2023

Skills make you valuable. And value brings money. This is where being highly skilled in certain fields gives you an advantage.

Seth Godin illustrates this well in his book, The Dip:

“A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.”

We often think about persuasion, writing, and so forth when it comes to income-generating skills. And those skills are still relevant.

But there are more subtle skills that successful people have that others take for granted. These are abilities that most people never view as skills.

These unconventional skills make the difference between those who succeed and those who stay average.

Here are the 4 of skills you need to practice if you want to break the mold and achieve more.

1. Feedback Analysis

How well do you know yourself?

If you’ve read enough self-improvement books and articles, you’d already know the importance of self-awareness.

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Darius Foroux

I write about productivity, habits, decision making, and personal finance. Join my free weekly newsletter here: dariusforoux.com/wise-wealthy