10 Difficult Skills that Pay Off Forever

Try cultivating these ten skills in your own life and see how they affect your life both in the short and long term. It might just surprise you!

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[TheArtofImprovement]

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[Ferrj]

#1: Working out consistently 💪
#2: Personal Finance Skills 🤑
#3: Meditation 🧘‍♀️ 🧘‍♂️ ✨
#4: Communication 🤯
#5: Waking up early 🥱
#6: Public Speaking 😈
#7: Be honest within 🥸
#8: Leadership 🤝
#9: Decision Making 🧐
#10: Listening 🔥

[douglasmarshall]

I think 'waking up early' should be changed to 'maintaining a consistent sleep schedule'. Maintaining a consistent sleep schedule allows you to be less tired during the awake hours, and allows you to require less sleep overall. Different people have different preferred hours of awake time, as well as different work hours, so this also accommodates them.

[iljatarasovs]

Additional skills nice to have:
11. Dietology + Cooking.
Benefit: eat healthy, delicious and varied.
12. Psychology.
Benefit: understand yourself better, fix and prevent occurrences of mental problems. Optional benefit: manipulate others.

[robcubed]

#1 - One obstacle I've found to "working out" consistently is that I was very rigid in defining "workout" and if I was feeling tired, I wouldn't "workout". As I've gotten older I realized that not every "workout session" needs to be a personal record in athleticism and that simply taking a 15 minute brisk walk or doing 15 minutes of light range-of-motion exercises is better than not getting any activity. If I'm tired or sleep-deprived, I'll do some stretching an mild calisthenics rather than lifting heavy weights.

#5 - I disagree with waking up early. Some people have jobs that require them to be awake at night. Instead it's much more important to have a consistent bed-time and wake-time (as much as life allows).

[CalicoCooperFan]

One that I would add to the list would be project management skills. Understanding how to break large projects or goals down into manageable tasks, estimate the effort required to complete them, and understanding dependencies are key skills that can help you in your career, personal life, and on passion projects.

[mark-xfhi]

i agree with all these 👍👍 thanks!

#1: Working out consistently 00:39
#2: Personal Finance Skills 01:32
#3: Meditation 02:06
#4: Communication 02:56
#5: Waking up early 03:43
#6: Public Speaking 04:30
#7: Be honest within 04:55
#8: Leadership 05:24
#9: Decision Making 5:56
#10: Listening 7:05

[Chris.starfleet]

Another major skill is basic computer technical skills ... not just computer literacy (which is the ability to use a computer) but the ability troubleshoot and solve basic computer problems whether they be hardware or software related. Computers will form an increasingly and ever part of our lives and you always having to rely on other people to solve all computer problems you have will set you back very often.

[stratocruising]

I made a similar list a few years ago, not nearly as lofty as this,
1. How to tie a square knot, a bowline, and a clove hitch. These three knots will handle almost every need you will face.
2. How to swim. The consequences of failing at this task are immediate and permanent.
3. How to change a tire and jumpstart a car, failure at these, particularly for a woman, can be fatal.
4. How to sew on a button
5. How to cook at least one impressive meal.

[carlosquinones]

I would like to add: Working out is only hard during the first year. The key is to be CONSISTENT, meaning you HAVE to make lifestyle changes in order to see results, you HAVE to give up certain things in order to be successful in fitness but I swear the payoff is huge. It really is the gift that keeps on giving.

Like, physical fitness is SO MUCH MORE than just looking good or being an athlete, it opens a lot of doors for you in life and allows you to branch out and use your conditioning for all walks of life. The discipline that comes with it is also very helpful.

Also, please remember to have a clear objective when pursuing physical fitness. I'm an all-around athlete but that doesn't mean I'm going to look bulky AND ripped at the same time. You have to choose one or the other. Wanna get ripped? Eat veggies, do calisthenics and run every day.

Wanna get buff? Eat tons of protein every day along with carbs and some creatine monohydrate, lift heavy weights 2-3 times a week and no more. This takes much longer than getting ripped or developing cardio but you can keep your gains for several months up to a year if you never touched a weight again. You can also do more things by yourself, like moving from one house to another, for example.

Wanna be a runner? That's the easiest thing in fitness as you can start seeing results in as soon as 2 weeks but the drawback is you have to keep doing it every day because if you stop running after a month its like starting over.

That's my two cents in fitness. Good luck!

P.S. If by any chance you wanted to be a boxer, run every day. Forget about lifting weights. That makes no difference at all because your punching power doesn't come from lifting objects, it comes from releasing potential energy from your arms like a whip, which is a completely different plane of motion than simply lifting 50lbs. biceps curls. Abs help, tho.

[jacc]

As a musician who works in the evenings the getting up early one annoys me. They are clearly only looking at the philosophy and lifestyles of successful business people/entrepreneurs and applying a one size fits all approach. For people who work unusual hours this is just not possible unless you want burn-out after a month or two. The key is to try and be focussed in the hours you do have.

[juanoquendo]

Outstanding. I've been doing these consistently for decades. I would add these other 4. 
#11 Learning another language: Helps with brain function and is just flat out necessary today.
#12 Playing a musical instrument: Also helps with brain function and promotes general well being.
#13 Deep Reading: Immersive reading improves both language and cognitive skills. Reading something like The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung also helps with #7.
#14 Organizational Skills: None of these can happen without organizational skills. We all need to learn how to properly plan out our lives.

[antwuntrademark]

*PATIENCE* is also an EXTREMELY invaluable skill to learn and master! ⭐️

[XOPOIIIO]

By waking up early you won't get more hours, because you will start to go to bed early. You always need the same amount of hours to sleep, doesn't matter how early you wake up.

[casiandsouza]

11) understanding without judging. 12) Distinguish your interests from influence of society.

[sleepconcentrationmeditation]

Most underrated:
1. Meditation
2. Communication
3. Personal Finance

[dakoderii]

Exercise and sunlight are very underrated but the impacts are enormous.

[warrenbradford]

"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply"-Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
To show that I am listening, I must reply more.

[ItoeKobayashi]

I really appreciate the very clear explanations. You not only said what the skills were, but expressed exactly why those skills are important, and how they can help. And there was no fluff either, you got right to the key info.
For me in particular, the bit about waking up early stood out. I had never really thought about the specific benefit of being in charge of my own mornings, and not letting my work dictate when I get up. Empowering myself with the time to do important things, like meditating, really clicked with me. Thank you!

[antoinebugleboy]

I've read "The 7 Habits" several times, and until this video, the point about "listening with the intent to reply rather than with the intent to understand" never hit me the way it did just now. Thank you!