What life skills do you wish you learned earlier?

[UniquelyBasic]

Anything in general you would advise younger people to learn or do before having to be an actual adult.

[Guy13]

The power of serving another greater than you as to improve their standing. And the coattails of those like this is a much better approach than reinventing the wheel starting a Business ground-up. How to Serve others with hope but not expectation.

[ArrowheadSW]

It would have been nice to have taken a course on "Interpersonal Communication" when I was in college. I was a well-liked guy but I think I wasn't up to par with interpersonal skills when I graduated.

[NotTacocaT6969]

I should’ve practiced guitar more and should not have chickened out of joining a band.

[UniquelyBasic]

Why didn't you practice guitar more? Just fell out of love with it or was it something else?

[NotTacocaT6969]

Nobody else in my family knew anything about music.

I had no guidance and nobody to point out that my electric guitar was technically broken and the fretting on my acoustic guitar was manufactured incorrectly.

Can’t strum, but I can still play single notes pretty fast. Lol

[SaoirseS]

Fortunately, I can’t think of anything.

[SaoirseS]

For me, I was taught a lot of life skills (or found places to learn them) before I left high school. As far as what advice I can give to younger, other than the most common cooking and how to a change a tire skills, I recommend young folks learn some basics in finance, budgeting, insurance, investment basics, tax planning and preparation, etc. I find it surprising how many people my age and older don't know how to balance a checkbook. Some schools offer personal finance as an elective, and there are plenty of free seminars (provided one looks for them), but for whatever reason people don't take advantage of them.

[UniquelyBasic]

Appreciate you sharing. Thanks

[NathanDavis]

to fence for myself more seriously, as in having a career plan type... I started very late, I think... aged 22

[Anonymous]

to live without a man

[UniquelyBasic]

Like to not have to rely on a man? Or just not moving in with a man?