That kind of reinventing of the wheel seems insane when there's such an easy way to pick up information about the traps that await the unwary as they are setting up a particular kind of business or career. Go talk to people doing it, and see if it's as great as it sounds. It may not be. You realize that it's not a problem of understanding, but a problem with the safety system of the individual. We're all torn between these two.
Skills are the ability to listen, the ability to analyze, the ability to synthesize, and so forth.
They are transferable from one field to another. If you're good at organizing in a career that you have today, and you decide to change careers dramatically five years from now, you're almost certainly going to be able to use your organizing skill in the new career, just as well as you did in the old one. That's the difference between skills and special knowledges. You'd be amazed at how much a person balks at understanding this when they're thinking about moving their life from an old career to a new career. Still, we have trouble.