Forget Traditional Skills—This One Will Change Your Life
Most people focus on the wrong skills—here’s the one that truly matters.
"Skills are everything."
We get told by schools, unis, companies, and in the creator game online. They explain how emotional intelligence, writing, video editing, project management, and making the most of your taxes can improve your life.
And they can.
But most overlook that other far more essential skills enable you to live a better life, no matter your current situation.
Here's what I mean.
Life skills that have earned their names
Writing, tricking the IRO, and project management are valuable.
If used right, they can make you a lot of money and improve your life. At the same time, they're business-focused but not life-focused.
Life skills are something different.
They are skills you learn to improve your future life with it.
No matter your actual situation. Yes, you read right.
Think patience, which enables you to put off instant gratification, communication skills that help you make your point, or compassion to become a better friend.
These are the real deal. Why?
Because they'll enable you to live a life on your terms, leverage your unique strengths, and help others.
If used right, they're a cheat code to a much better life, no matter the circumstances you find yourself in.
And there's one that trumps them all.
Seeing the flower in cracking concrete
We try to plan everything, find strategies, and ben
d everything and everyone to our will to feel successful.
By doing that, we pour concrete on the beauty of impermanence in life and then wonder why the chaos of nature always finds a way through the concrete of our plans.
We get mad about it.
Like I did when I tried structuring my life to the last minute detail at the beginning of my 20s. A delayed train could ripple my entire schedule and make me mad for hours.
But truly successful people have learned to see luck in adversity.
They have learned to see the flowers coming through the concrete as a gift, not a threat.
They don't see the death of a loved one as the end of the world but as an invitation to celebrate the years they spend together.
They don't see a failing business as the perfect proof of personal worthlessness but as an essential lesson to be learned.
Truly successful people have realized that adversity is the breeding ground for greatness.
It's not only inevitable but necessary to get ahead in life.
The best part? It's a skill you can learn. How?
By starting to accept life and working with it instead of against it. You wouldn't try swimming upstream in a river for long, either.
Why then do it in life?
Go with its flow; enjoy what you see at the riverbanks and in the distance. Even if it might take you somewhere else than you'd have planned initially.
Then, you can find luck in adversity.
And still reach the destination you were destined to reach.
Thank you for reading.
Can you see luck in adversity?
Let me know in the comments.