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What is meant by a life skill, and why are they important?
A life skill helps one to survive in the most hostile conditions(for example, a pandemic or a recession). These are also the skills that act as anti-anxiety skills because you always know that you have what it takes to survive in the most difficult situations in life. Some call the soft skills; some call the individual strength; some call them personal skills, and so on. A skill is a fine art of solving a problem using certain methods and practicing and implementing the methods so many times that they appear to like being an integral part of life.
There are thousands of such skills which are quintessential for life. From farming to nursing, teaching to arts, hunting to horse riding, all are skills. And yet, in urban life, certain core skills determine the possibilities of one going further in his life and career and achieving the goals one set. These life skills are also important to build leverage in life so that your work will continue to grow on top of each other.
Out of many such skills, here are 13 critically important skills that would make you better than the others, boost your career and skyrocket your growth. They will also act like the foundations based on which you can build the leverages that will act as the insurance policy for you in life.
The 13 Important Life Skills?
1. Courage: Nothing will be as important a skill as courage. Take up the impossible goals and conflicts and go after them to build courage.
2. Habits: Eating on time, sleeping early, waking up early, eating right, having the right posture, and having no addiction.
3. Observation: Observe minutely & learn from the world around you, see the nails to the hair to the backdrop to fake smile to hidden tears to walking style, and build models.
4. Health: Knowing your body and taking care of it. Exercise, muscles, strength, stamina, fitness, sexual health, immunity, metabolism. Learn and optimize.
5. Cooking: Selecting the right combination of ingredients, cooking right and fresh. Cooking is a stress reliever and hormone balancer.
6. Investment: Right knowledge of dead vs. active investment to grow money.
7. Conversation: How to talk, listen, understand people, and gather insights from conversation.
8. Self-Assessment: Hold yourself accountable for promises.
9. Sales: Learn to sell. It’s the best life insurance.
10. Presence of mind: Put yourself in bad situations and use your mind to come out.
11. Mind Diet: Think and feed the mind with the right info to build wisdom.
12. Relationship: Selecting, pursuing, and managing. 1-11 will help in this. A bad relationship will mess up your life.
13. Entrepreneurship: Solving real-world problems and finding others with similar problems to commercialize the solution is a life skill. Thousands of problems surround us. Solving even the simplest of problems is a life skill, which like other things, is to be mastered by practicing.
Conclusion
These are more or less the most important aspects of your life and skills, not the degrees, not the education.
Unfortunately, schools and parents will not teach you most of them. There are no social models to encourage you to pursue these skills.
It is highly recommended that when you turn 18, you start living an independent life and manage money for your own education and survival.
Even if you acquire all the degrees, you will invariably realize that life gets hard when you lack the above.
A 60-40 time and energy utilization between the ages of 16-25 will make the rest of life a smooth and easy journey. You have not been born to validate your parents and schools, relatives and neighbors, and anyone. You have born for yourself. Build the above skills and make yourself prepared for the uncertainties of life.