What something unique skills do you guys have that set you apart in Finance career or helped you grow in Finance career.
And what something you regret not doing due to not getting time or other reasons that could have helped you to elevate your career in finance. 
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Based on the most helpful WSO content, here are some unique skills and regrets shared by finance professionals:
Unique Skills That Set Professionals Apart in Finance:
Regrets That Could Have Elevated Careers:
These insights highlight the importance of balancing skill development, networking, and personal growth to thrive in a finance career.
Sources: Regrets Due to Finance, Regrets Due to Finance, Career in Finance - Reality or Reach?, Work ethic or intelligence what is more important for a career in finance ?, Finance Career Path & List
I was with you right up into you said "career in finance" - I feel like there's a number of skills any one of us would love to develope for Quality of Life reasons. I can name a few that come to mind:
1. Being fluent in a foreign language (perhaps Spanish or French) would open doors and make travelling so much easier.
2. Being advanced in a martial art like kickboxing or the infamous Brazalian Jujitsu would help provide a bit of assurance
3. Being able to play advanced piano - time for this one and the different walls people hit can be demotivating
Really, when it comes to a skill befitting a career in finance, I heard this one unique story of a prodigy who interviewed for an FT at Goldamn at age 19 having completed his Master's in Finance. There is definitely a basis for aptitutde and advanced conceptual and computational thinking that some folks have a greater skillset for.
Other tangible skills can really be learned on the job and wouldn't make or break an application. If someone was a master at Excel versus someone who started out novice, they would be near parity in two years' time because there is a low ceiling for what the upperbound of Excel entails.
My family canceled my lessons after my mother passed, and in retrospect, it's a skill I wish I had continued to learn.
Second this list, these are roughly the three things I'm focusing on as well. I just got pretty comfortable with Spanish which has been a blast to actually use in Latin America. Travel is so much better when you can speak the language. Moving on to Russian now. Learning a combat sport and perfecting my musical instrument is also very rewarding.
My most advanced skills that have placed me far in the real world is being a cunnilingus.
Can you go into depth of what you mean since I’m a dumb ass? Do you mean persuasive or having good vocabulary or both?
Oral expertise.
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