10 Life Skills I Wish I Was Taught In School

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1/ Budgeting

Learning how to track & plan your income & expenses is crucial

I wish I took a class that simulates different phases of life & various income/expense scenarios

2/ Entrepreneurship

I wish I took a class where the goal was to make $1,000 by the end of the semester

Light on lectures — heavy on taking action

A class like this would have taught me so much about how businesses actually work

3/ Habits

You are what you repeatedly do

I wish I took a class where we had to

Form a new good habit
Break a bad habit

The class would present tips, tricks, & discussion about how habits are formed and how to change them

4/ Investing

$100/month invested in the stock market for 40 years will make you rich

If I was taught this when I was 10, I would have started investing sooner

5/ Networking & Relationship Building

I wish I took a class that forced me to interview 5 people that I didn’t know but admired

Learning how to expand & maintain your network of friends & business associates is critical

6/ Negotiating

I wish I had a class where I had to write a paper on any subject of my choosing

but I was given an automatic “D”

and I could only get a higher grade by negotiating with my teacher on why I deserved it

7/ Marketing

I wish I took a class where I marketed school events to the community

Ex: Promote our school’s next basketball game

Learn to create flyers, put them in strategic places, and you were graded by many people attended the events

8 / Psychology & Decision Making

I wish I was taught about all of the ways that humans are bad decision-makers

It would have been eye-opening to go through historical examples of good and bad decisions, why they were made, and their outcomes

9/ Sales & Influence

Learning how to change other people’s mind is a critical life skill

I wish I took a class where we were all given items to sell and were then judged by how much we actually sold would have been great training

Maybe partner with the local Boy/Girl Scouts?

10/ Succinct Writing

Rather than a 5-page paper being the minimum

I wish I took a class where 250 words was the maximum

and we learned various techniques to make your point quickly

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These 10 Twitter accounts can help you learn more about mastering these critical life skills

1. Budgeting @TheBudgetnista
2. Entrepreneurship @sweatystartup
3. Habits @jamesclear
4. Investing @themotleyfool
5. Networking @jordanharbinger

6. Negotiating @VossNegotiation
7. Marketing @alexgarcia_atx
8. Psychology @morganhousel
9. Sales @SalesGravy
10. Writing @davidperrell