What essential life skill isn't taught?

[shack]

I don't think that anyone mentioned it but, Conflict Resolution.

As kids we'd go out and play with our friends in person. As expected, we sometimes got into arguments/fights. The vast majority of the time we'd be playing again in a short while or the next day. We learned how to work things out.

Nowadays, kids do not interact to the same degree. They are stuck in front of screens, phones, game consoles etc. They are more isolated and don't get the same level of personal interaction. In that environment it is much easier to be entrenched in your position and never compromise (sounds like TERB). Never back down.

As I type this, I realise that the aspect of conflict resolution is really a subsection of a larger issue, Interpersonal Communication.

 

[decoy2673]

spotting fake news. pro-tip anything citing anonymous sources is bullshit.

 

[luvyeah]

Thinking?

Anyone read Edward de Bono stuff?

 

[Jasmina]

Self awareness. Part of the reason so many are mentally struggling with Covid is because they have had to sit with themselves, and what they met made them VERY uncomfortable. Know thyself.

 

[lessjamie7]

I found this on Quora. What else is there?

1. The ability to listen. No one teaches you how to listen. You learn it the hard way.
2. How to have sex (make love), you learn it from third parties that teach you rubbish. Sex is a leading cause of marriage break down.
3. How to select the right partner. Your life partner will determine 90% of the time the quality of the life you live.
4. How to make money, the school only teaches you how to make money for businesses, so to make money, you have to teach yourself how to start a business.
5. How to fail honorably. No one teaches you how to fail. Every billionaire failed at least 5 times, before finding success and I mean major failures, like when Mark Zuckerberg lost 4 billion dollars in a day. How many of you will almost commit suicide if you lost 0.5 percent of that?
6. How to be an adult, we all learn it the hard way.
7. How to live without focusing on material things, or being dependent on them.
8. How to meditate, you decide to learn it yourself.
9. Self-defense should be taught more often in school. It would stop needless wastes of life during robbery attacks.
10. How to laugh death in the face, and live life as a full human unafraid of the challenges of the world, as nothing is as scary as the fear of death and if we can overcome death, we can overcome all other challenges. In more apt terms, they should teach more people how to put death in their pockets.

Masturbating.

LJ

 

[lessjamie7]

Self awareness. Part of the reason so many are mentally struggling with Covid is because they have had to sit with themselves, and what they met made them VERY uncomfortable. Know thyself.

Sitting with Covid has afforded you the opportunity to meet your inner self, thats progress, projecting your discomfort from your experience onto everyone else is not progress. You can only know " Thyself "

LJ

 

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Sitting with Covid has afforded you the opportunity to meet your inner self, thats progress, projecting your discomfort from your experience onto everyone else is not progress. You can only know " Thyself "

LJ

Eventually they might realize how much they are projecting their own issues onto others. We all do that to some degree but self awareness helps identify it, understand it and prevent further toxic from spreading from your own source.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1335479947536728066

 

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Self awareness. Part of the reason so many are mentally struggling with Covid is because they have had to sit with themselves, and what they met made them VERY uncomfortable. Know thyself.

So true. They can’t run anymore from their core and it keeps nagging at them and telling them something is off. Maybe they eventually realize to open up listen and explore to see what it’s trying to tell them. Before they could distract themselves from it but now they don’t have much choice to escape from themselves lol

 

[Fun For All]

Maybe effective lying should be taught.

When you're a kid you were always told "Don't lie, always tell the truth" but everybody seems to do it...and they do it because it's easy and it get's you out of a lot of spots and can reward you also...people we were told too trust lie more than anybody.

But if you don't lie effectively and get caught you could have a real mess on your hands.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Most of the above. But the most important and obvious one to me is this guy's advice. I heard him talk once on Oprah probably but his advice was If you work 8 hours a day, save one hour of that. If you work 5 days a week you should make a point of saving at least one day of that. Isn't much to ask is it?

 

[Archer2012]

How to keep a straight face when you let rip a killer fart in a crowded elevator.

The most difficult thing ever not to burst out laughing - especially when you see people smell it but try to pretend not to.

 

[anonemouse]

Critical thinking
How to argue with logic and reason
How to change your mind about something

 

[canada-man]

 

[Spunky1]

Burning Bridges

 

[explorerzip]

I don't think that anyone mentioned it but, Conflict Resolution.

As kids we'd go out and play with our friends in person. As expected, we sometimes got into arguments/fights. The vast majority of the time we'd be playing again in a short while or the next day. We learned how to work things out.

Nowadays, kids do not interact to the same degree. They are stuck in front of screens, phones, game consoles etc. They are more isolated and don't get the same level of personal interaction. In that environment it is much easier to be entrenched in your position and never compromise (sounds like TERB). Never back down.

As I type this, I realise that the aspect of conflict resolution is really a subsection of a larger issue, Interpersonal Communication.

IMO, this all on the adults. Adults invented, manufactured and sold those gadgets to people. Adults bought those gadgets for their kids to be substitute friends and parents. Adults also spend time in front of screens and not with their kids. Adults can be more isolated and go online to argue needlessly with other isolated people.

 

[Jasmina]

This is a peer reviewed observation. Even Billie Eilish talks about it in her recent Vanity Fair video. Did you feel attacked?

Sitting with Covid has afforded you the opportunity to meet your inner self, thats progress, projecting your discomfort from your experience onto everyone else is not progress. You can only know " Thyself "

LJ

 

[Jasmina]

I knew you would get it


(and also, I really love that song, it has great value to me)

So true. They can’t run anymore from their core and it keeps nagging at them and telling them something is off. Maybe they eventually realize to open up listen and explore to see what it’s trying to tell them. Before they could distract themselves from it but now they don’t have much choice to escape from themselves lol

 

[goldengirl]

You need to teach kids how to work in a McDonald's, after that class everyone will be fully qualified for Canadian jobs.

 

[explorerzip]

You need to teach kids how to work in a McDonald's, after that class everyone will be fully qualified for Canadian jobs.

IMO, working at McDonald's or just about any fast food job would be a valuable life experience. It teaches then how to do real work with others in a high stress environment and not lean on their degrees. There are many people in the corporate world (many in management positions) that don't know anything or have any experience even with multiple degrees. Their knowledge is theoretical not practical. These are people that know how to study, take tests, write emails and not much else. They've never gotten their hands dirty in the real world.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Left uppercut followed up with a right cross. practice practice practice.