Anything that requires you to think about what you’re thinking, to have feelings about your feelings, is developing your ability to be self-aware: meditation, talk therapy, journaling etc.

Self awareness can be learned through practice

Instead, we’re taught how to copy and memorize things — and then promptly forget them. This poorly suits us for sorting through the complexities of adult life.

We’re rarely taught in school how to actually think 

<div>If you have a society full of people buying crap they can’t afford, retiring with no savings, getting sick and not being able to afford health care, that screws all of us in a major way.</div>

Financial illiteracy is a really big problem

<ol><li>Personal finance: credit cards, savings and retirement;</li><li>Relationships: communication, consent, sexuality;</li><li>Logic and Reasoning: Logical progressions; </li><li>Self-Awareness: thinking about thoughts and feelings;</li><li>Skepticism: nothing is certain, there are no things completely reliable.</li></ol>

Things that should be taught in every school

Learning how to exercise some conscious control of how you express your emotions and intimacy is possibly the most life-changing skill set you’ll ever come across.

Few things influence our lives as much as our relationships do

Pretty much anything good in life comes from uncertainty or a state of not knowing. It’s what keeps you humble. Pretty much anything bad in life comes from certainty: complacency, arrogance, prejudice.

Uncertainty is what drives you to become curious and to learn

I mean, almost all of the important history I learned between grades 5 and 12 I could probably find on Wikipedia and understand within a few weeks now. And pretty much any basic scientific knowledge you could ever want to learn is explained with pretty videos on YouTube.

Financial illiteracy is a really big problem

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