Learning to know your left hand from your other left hand.
Skills: Competencies. Specific, learnable capabilities required for effective performance of a variety of work functions or activities.
Skills: What keeps your head attached to the rest of your body. What keeps you functioning. The characteristics by which you are recognized as human.
Phase one: Getting everything wrong.
Phase two: Getting everything wrong, and knowing it.
Phase three: Getting some things right, but by accident.
Phase four: Getting most things right, and still being regarded as terminally odd by the locals. And not going hungry.