Crucial Life Skills

1. Being bored

Boredom leads to creativity.

2. Flexibility

Both physical and mental flexibility.

3. Sitting in silence (meditation)

The ability to listen and connect begins with listening to and connecting with ourselves

4. Empathy

The ability to connect with someone’s emotion without taking it on

5. Play

Play, for the joy of playing

6. Cooking

You are going to be eating the rest of your life, you need to know how to cook. And a bonus, know how to cook at least 2 decadent meals and you will impress the hell out of a potential partner

7. The ability to form new habits

The ability to learn/unlearn/relearn is in our habits

8. The ability to admit a mistake

9. Sit through discomfort

Not pain. Unless you like that sort of thing.
Sitting in discomfort is insightful. Insight into what and why we are feeling a particular way, insight into other’s, and it builds tolerance.
It must be practiced gradually

10. Compassion

The practice of connecting with yourself and in turn others