Learning things quickly.
It’s totally its own skill, and you can learn to learn faster. What skills are useful changes with time – the ones used in your career now might age like milk for reasons beyond your control.
How to not be an asshole. If everyone mastered that, I think the world would be a great place.
A skill is too much to ask. I just want people to move out of the way when they get off the escalator so I don’t bump into their asses.
Basic social skills. Let everyone talk and try not to disturb while they’re at it. Hear others point of view. I think that would solve a lot of problems.
A really good bullshit-o-meter.
So many issues with major media, corporate announcements, government announcements, and probably many other things can be solved with a good bullshit-o-meter.
What I really mean is critical thinking. Because there are vacuous ways to calibrate a bullshit-o-meter that lack logic entirely and tie one into some ideological goal. Then you can still claim to have a bullshit-o-meter but lack the ultimate goal of it, but it’s really not a helpful tool at that point. My original meaning is a true, logic-based bullshit-o-meter.
even a mediocre bs meter would work
FTP. Seriously, it’s a life skill.
File transfer protocol?
Yes.
Self awareness
I wish I could upvote this more than once.
I wish responses like this would stay on Reddit.
Common sense
U mean rare sense
Basic cooking.
You don’t need to be Gordon Ramsey, but in a pinch, know how to make pasta, chilli and a few other things.
Is chilli considered basic? Spicy food is not that common where I live. For me the basics would be to know how to:
-Peel and cut veggies
-Boil stuff
-Fry eggs
But maybe it’s a cultural thing! I’m interested in knowing what you’re doing with your chilli peppers ;)
Basic chili recipe (people from texas can bite their tongue for five minutes one time):
- beans
- tomatoes
- onions
- peppers
A little bit of cumin and salt to taste and you actually don’t need anything else to get something that is recognizable as chili.
I add all sorts of other stuff, but that’s the basics.
Beans?!!
/s
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People should really know how to research. Sure, almost everyone knows how to do a google search, but there are shockingly many people who can’t research, i.e view multiple sources including those that don’t align with your views.
You’d be surprised how many people don’t even know how to do a Google search.
Some basic knots for different situations
I am knot tying this rope. I’ll leave that to someone who knows what they’re doing.
Computer comprehension. You should have a basic understanding of what your pc is doing, web certificates, passwords, how to tell when youre being scammed, and how to protect your personal info. Knowledge doesnt need to be deep, just wide.
Despite what the term “digital natives,” I really feel this skill is slipping. Many of my peers woud probably get lapped by a boomer if they had to use an actual PC again
How to write clearly in their native language.
