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The Human is the cause for extreme climate change
Making better Gun Control Laws will reduce Gun Violence.
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Reader’s Digest suggests that some of the fundamental life skills that everyone should aim to have include things like:
- Balancing a budget, paying your bill, and doing your own taxes;
- Having boundaries and saying ‘no’ to people;
- Cooking a meal and doing other basic tasks in the kitchen;
- Accepting criticism gracefully;
- Sewing on a button;
- Understanding the consequences of your actions;
- Changing a tire;
- Having a genuine face-to-face conversation where you listen more than you speak;
- Doing laundry;
- Navigating public transport.
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Knowledge gaps are fairly common. And the irony is that you’re rarely aware of them until someone challenges your (lack of) knowledge. You can be strongly biased or woefully uneducated in a particular subject without even realizing it. For instance, because you misinterpreted something you (half) read in passing in a handful of headlines on social media one time without cross-checking claims and doing your due diligence regarding source reliability. Or you may have never had the time or opportunities to learn skills that seemingly everyone else your age knows how to do well.
However, if you have a growth-oriented mindset, you won’t see the mistakes you make as personal failures. Rather, they’re opportunities to improve and learn new things. By messing up you—hopefully—become more self-aware, open-minded, and willing to put in the work to research topics that are both new and the ones that you previously thought you were well-versed in. In short, you want to have the mindset of a real scientist, checking how your assumptions and hypotheses line up with objective reality. And that takes a lot of humility.
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One guys debit card declined, I told him so. He looked at me like I was an alien, and then loudly exclaimed, ‘how can a DEBIT CARD be declined?’ So had to explain that one to him.
Another person was traveling from a state that didn’t have sales tax, and expected me to remove the sales tax from their purchase because ??? apparently in their mind if you live somewhere without sales tax, you can travel the country and not have to adhere to those states rules I guess.
Another person tried to use a tax exempt card from another state (on Black Friday, mind you) and was mad that I couldn’t honor another states tax exempt card.
Honestly like it’s okay to not know stuff. But don’t be a f*****g a*****e when someone tries to explain to you what the hell is going on, lmao.
According to Business Insider, some of the core skills that every functioning adult should have include:
- Accepting feedback gracefully;
- Learning to apologize sincerely;
- Managing your time well;
- Saying ‘no’ respectfully;
- Getting better at empathizing with other people;
- Learning to make friends;
- Communicating through your body language;
- Speaking a second language;
- Sticking to a budget;
- Getting comfortable with public speaking.
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What are some absolutely must-know pieces of information and life skills that you think any grownup should have in their toolbox? What are some frustratingly common sense things that you’ve had to explain to other adults who should have known better?
What do you do to fill in any knowledge gaps that you’ve become aware of? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments!
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Got chewed out at a coffee job, for accepting "fake money", because a customer paid with 2, $2 bills. My boss was in their 40s. Took 10 minutes and a google search to prove I wasn't lying.
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He tells my father, the central air in my house doesn't work. No matter how much I increase the power, it still doesn't cool. during winter I keep it at 70, but once summer came I increased it to 80 it still doesn't work.
My father looks at him... confused... then something clicks.
Slowly, my father replies, "The. Number. You. Are. Changing. Is. NOT. The. Power. It. Is. Temperature. If. You. Want. It. Cooler. You. Will. Have. To. Set. A. Lower. Number.
This was a guy in his late thirties and was an MBA.
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Not only was that higher-up an adult, but she was highly educated with a Ph.D and everything.
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