The correct answer is: personal skills.
A skill is an ability to perform an activity in a competent manner.
There are three main types of skills:
<em>- transferable/functional skills:</em> these are actions needed to perform a task, they are based on ability and aptitude. Some of them are: organizing, promoting, analyzing, writing etc.
<em>- personal skills:</em> they are developed in childhood and through life, some are inborn. Some of them are: patience, independence, result-orientated mind, courage.
<em>- knowledge-based skills:</em> they are acquired through education, training and experience. Some of them are: accounting, foreign languages, computer skills.
<em>Thoroughness and paying attention to details are skills</em> that are not obtained through knowledge or work experience. They resemble character traits that a person is born with, or they are developed through life's experience.
C. Feet when measuring distance you measure it in centimeters, inches, feet, yards, and miles.
Extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past; especially : made effective as of a date prior to enactment, promulgation, or imposition