Life Skills They Don't Teach: What's Your Most Valuable Self-Taught Lesson?
What's the most important life skill you've had to teach yourself that you wish you'd learned earlier? Could be anything from emotional intelligence to home repairs, financial planning to conflict resolution.
How did you realize you needed this skill, and how did you go about learning it? What advice would you give to others trying to develop in this area?
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Everything compounds. The arguments you feed in your relationship daily or the love, the stress you feed in your brain or the comfort. That workout, that food choice or the money you saved. Absolutely everything compounds.
Here's mine: Hard work is the most important thing. Period. Over a 7 year career, it becomes incredibly clear what's the one common pattern binding all of your friends who are doing well in life: they all work hard without complaining too much.
It's a choice. But it pays off.
But they always teach .. u need some luck too ..
Life is not just work. It's many things and you have to BALANCE them. Balance make life sexy, it makes it worth living, as unsexy as it sounds.
Killing it at work, but getting fat while you're at it? Won't be happy. Killing it at your relationship, but boss thinks you're worthless? Won't be happy.
I didn't teach myself but layoffs did. Don't think of your company as a person. It is purely an entity that can spit you out when it needs to. Build your own career and skills, you can't control much else.
Important decisions should be taken by individuals without getting influenced by anyone whether it will impact badly but don't get influenced by others
Start Saving and Investment as earlier in the life as possible.
Time is the most valuable commodity you own.
Pick your battles! It's ok to just say "ok,cool" and move on and ignore folks instead of getting rattled for unnecessary things. Helps in the long run