That You Need To Learn!
“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.” -Buddha
Some Of The Most Important Life Skills You Need To Learn
Life skills are the skills that help you to live successfully, for example if you are an employee, you will use some of these skills every day at work, at home or outside with your employer. It must have happened to you that you needed your creativity to find a solution in a garden. Or you see a bully, a bad temper, etc., who would bother you with their words and you don’t know whether to say anything in the right way to act or to put your effort in remaining calm and ignoring their actions. This is not a practical expression of our daily application and need to the mists of life. But these few simple examples will preserve it.
We all need to learn this skill for a better life. In this post, we will go over this topic and know why we need to get involved in the most important life skills.
What Are The Most Important Life Skills?
As we all know, the basic human skills are the skills that will help you live life.
And there are skills that has helped us in our evolution and made us understand each other, our needs and the society as we came closer to the age of technology and learned skills that will help us live a better life.
But contrary to its simple definition, the important classification of life is not much of a skill… and even experts are actually considered about this.
This may be completely resolved… And the previous human generations helped us make a list of important life skills which has helped them a lot in their life, most of these important skills are related to the following skills:
- Decision making and avoiding threats
- Creative thinking and critical thinking
- Interpersonal and social skills
- Selflessness and empathy
- Managing emotions, feelings and stress
Of course, these all are synchronized with the title of the important oral skill of life which was very curtail for them, which we later gave it the name of human inter-communications. Class is defined as the most important life skills that provide the emotional, social and other tools needed for success in life – both at the personal and interpersonal levels.
Each of these arts plays an important role in your personal, interpersonal and social life, which you will become more familiar with in the following.
Life Skills According To The World Health Organization:
You may have noticed that there is no definitive list of life skills that each and every person needs to follow to live a life, and the UNICEF has emphasized this.
Because life skills are skills that vary from culture to culture and from society to society. These factors make life skills a flexible concept that is not fixed.
It is therefore very difficult to develop a list of life skills that are useful to the majority of the world’s population.
But the list published by the World Health Organization or ‘WHO’ has almost most of these conditions. You are going to get acquainted with each of them in this section:
Decision-Making Skills
Decision-making is an important and a very necessary skill for all of us.
But some people get so nervous when making important life decisions and many people find it very challenging to make decisions due to the lack of the decision-making skills.
But this skill is a cognitive process that helps you make decisions in any situation and according to the circumstances, and we all can learn it by practice.
Decision-making skills can be divided into: Time factors, their complexity and the amount of thinking and evaluation it takes to make the decision.
There is a 7-step decision-making process that can help you make better decisions.
This process involves the following steps:
1. Specify the decision
2. Collect relevant information
3. Specify alternatives
4. Weigh the evidence
5. Choose one of the options (The best possible option)
6. Act accordingly
7. Examine your decision, and evaluate its consequences, make changes if necessary
Many people don’t make decisions this way, and that’s what causes the complications or wrong decisions in some cases which may make them face some problems in life.
Problem Solving Skills
One of the most important life skills is problem-solving.
This skill is part of thinking and occurs when you don’t know which path to take, to reach to point B from point A. Or how to move forward in a direction.
Learning this skill will help you deal with the problems you have in your life more effectively and better. Because these problems are not resolved, it can cause anxiety, stress and depression in you or make you loose direction and decrease your level of satisfaction in life.
There are several ways to identify problems, face them and find appropriate solutions to each of them.
You can use the following steps to find the right solutions to face various issues:
1. Analyze the problem
2. Find different solutions
3. Evaluate the solutions
4. Implement a solution
5. Check the impact of the solution (Repeat the process if necessary)
Creative Thinking Skill
Another life skill is creative thinking.
Creative thinking means thinking outside the box and the ability to think realistically or understand the logic between ideas.
Learning this life skill is very important because it helps you identify, analyze and ultimately solve problems systematically. It also helps individuals and organizations to be more productive. That is why organizations are looking to hire creative people and these people have found a valuable place in organizations. (Read this article to know more about creativity.)
Critical Thinking Skill
In the world we live in, you need to collect and analyze a lot of information every day, and that is why critical thinking skills are important. This skill teaches you how to think rather than what to think. Critical thinking allows you to ask a variety of questions and consider a variety of answers to better perform to find solutions to your or your team’s problems.
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Communication Skills
Among the life skills you have learned so far, communication skills are one of the most important.
Because the ability to communicate is important in all areas of life. Learning it will allow you to express yourself and express your views and demands.
Communication skills are not just verbal. You must be able to communicate with others through writing or even put attention to the body language and make sure you don’t avoid thinking about their point of view and situation when you communicate with them. miscommunications are one of the reasons that many relations, friendships and daily human interactions face issues and by improving this skill you can gain many benefits in your private and social life, and sometimes even would help you solve unwanted issues, or misunderstandings with others.
Learning communication skills, include active listening, public speaking, verbal communication, and written communication, and learning, practicing or improving these skills will help you grow in life.
The Skill Of Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is a life skill that helps you recognize your strengths and weaknesses. Self-awareness is one of the essential life skills that allows you to recognize when you are stressed, under pressure, etc. This skill is a prerequisite for communicating with others and empathizing with them. We suggest you read the book Man in Search of Meaning, which is Viktor Frankl’s memoir of a Nazi concentration camp. This book is very useful in getting to know yourself and finding the meaning of your life. (Read this article about self actualization.)
Empathy Skill
Empathy is understanding and experiencing people’s feelings by putting yourself in their place. From a psychological perspective, empathy means understanding the emotional state of others. If you don’t care about the needs, desires and feelings of the other person, your relationship with others will be completely one-sided. The skill of empathy helps you to accept others even if they are different from you. Once you understand this, your communication will expand even among diverse ethnic and cultural situations.
Emotion Management Skills
One of the life skills you need to learn and practice is emotion management. Bad feelings are usually the result of negative thinking. You think you can’t do anything and you feel inadequate and weak. This can lead to problems such as depression and low self-esteem. But if you learn this life skill, you can deal with these negative and unrealistic thoughts and prevent bad feelings from occurring in yourself.
How Emotions Are Made explains how emotions are formed and how to control them, and if you want to strengthen your skill, you can prepare and read this book.
Interpersonal Skills
Interpersonal skills are the skills we use every day to interact with other people. Learning and practicing these skills helps us to build better relationships with the people we interact with. Some people are naturally skilled, but they are acquired and can be learned with practice. Teamwork, negotiation skills, decision-making, etc. are part of these skills.
Stress management skills
Various studies have shown that stress is the cause of many mental, physical and emotional diseases. That is why controlling it is one of the most important life skills.
Effective stress management makes you happier and more productive while having enough time, and as a result, you experience a balanced life. In the book Stress Management, the author offers ways to identify stressors and thus control and manage stress. (To strengthen your social relations, you can read this article.)
Why are learning life skills important?
You have learned the most important life skills and learned about each of them.
Now you know what these skills are.
But you may wonder why you need to learn these skills or why everyone should learn them.
It is necessary for everyone because without learning them, you are more likely to fail in life.
Some of these skills will help you regain your confidence and cope with life’s challenges. Other skills help you analyze situations and make the right decision.
In general, you cannot learn one skill to succeed in life and you also can’t be perfect in every single skill, and it is ok, actually we have to make sure that we don’t have the expectation of perfection from ourselves or others and we may call this a human skill too!
Most of us learn as long as we are in this life, so the idea of knowing and being perfect at each and every skill will not be a bright idea for us, we actually don’t need to be perfect in everything to be loved or successful.
But you have to make sure that you learn a combination of several skills in order to have a satisfying personal and social life, learning, improving and growing will make you evolve and evolution is the gift that our generation has in hand, and the combination of the skills that has helped us reach such a high place in life has been given to us by our previous generations and we have to make sure we use them in the best possible ways and even develop better skills for the coming generations if possible, and these all can happen if we are considered a successful and skillful generation in the history for the generations to come, and all good skills, including the skills in this article can be helpful to us for this goal.
Life Skills Training
Life is not the same for each and every one of us, depending on where on this planet we live. Many of us did not grow in environments that gave us the training, education or recourses to learn many of the skills that would be needed later-on in life or even outside of that environment, and many of us did not have access to learning facilities, for sure there are many people who have lived in developed countries but unfortunately there are many more people who were not able to live in such countries and this single reason may be the reason of many unwanted or unknown challenges, there may be many more reasons why a person would not know about the important life skills that they need to learn, or lack some of these skills because of them, but as long as a person is lives with a learning desire and has a healthy mindset, they can learn and grow no matter where they live on this planet or what resources they have.
And the good news is:
Life skills can be learned in many ways and in every language without much resources.
-One of the ways to teach life skills is to learn the skills that you have learned in the previous sections of this post and you can improve each of these skills by studying and practicing.
-Another way to teach these skills is the ‘Head, Heart, Hands and Health’ or the ‘4H’, which was developed in the United States by an organization of the same name, 4H.
In this system, important life skills are divided into four main categories: Head, Hand, Heart and Health.
- The skills which are related to thinking and management skills.
- The skills related to the heart are communication and attention skills.
- Hands-on skills are skills of forgiveness and work.
- And health skills are life skills. -According to this category, you can practice and improve in any area that you need to acquire skills or strengthen your life skills.
As you may already know, most of life skills are learned through motivation, study and practice.
So if you are looking to learn and strengthen your life skills or upgrade your current skills, never forget to allow yourself to read, watch educational videos and trainings and go beyond your current limits to reach the unknown in the field of personal skills development. (And don’t forget to keep the balance in your life, and enjoy life while you learn and grow your skills, as life includes these passing days too…)
From now on, it is up to you to evaluate and learn new skills, or improve your previous skills if necessary, and use them in your work and life. As Thomas Jefferson mentioned “Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it.”
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