What are the hardest and most useful skills to learn?

What are the hardest and most useful skills to learn?

The hardest skills and the right skills are always the same.

Here are 7-skills that are hard to master but pay off big time.

1. Sleep schedule: People know the value of quality sleep but never develop a consistent sleep schedule.
2. Listening: We know how to talk endlessly but we don’t know how to listen mindfully. It’s being mindful of yourself and the person.
3. Mastering thoughts: People are on all-time blame mode. It takes work to think positively, take responsibility, and change your situation.
4. Being vulnerable: People never experience full emotional vulnerability with their family or friends. It leads to an inability to vent pent-up emotions.
5. Delayed gratification: Being consistent with habits over the long-term, whether it’s exercise, studying, or business. People want a quick-fix and can’t be patient for results.
6. Awareness: Meditation teaches us how to live in the present moment. To see every thought and feeling as they arise. It took me a year of meditation to reach this stage.
7. Wonder: It’s a shame that we lose our child-like wonder and excitement when we grow up. We confuse being boring as maturity. It’s worth it to get that curiosity and passion back.