Soft skills are not things you can really learn from a book or a class and are difficult to measure or evaluate. Soft skills are things like emotions that develop over time. They drive how you interact with people or how you solve problems to name a few. Soft skills are not independent. Often, you will be leveraging many of these skills at the same time and the combination will vary based on the situation you are in. You may find that there is a relationship between many of these skills without explicitly being identified and at times you may find contradictions between them. It’s a balancing act to master multiple soft skills and you may not ever truly master one or many of them.