What general skills are extremely valuable in life?

It really depends on your environment. The ability to create things tends to be up there. Stuff like carpentry, cooking, etc. Crafted products generally carry more value than straight labor.

Time management
The ability to budget
Being able to cook and clean
Able to dress decently
Research skills
Good communication skills, in writing, in person and over the phone

Time management
Discipline
Charisma + good communication
Learning from past mistakes
Constant personal growth
Research skills
Humility

>>16449049
Skills as opposed to character traits?

>being able to sew
>ability to cook
>being handy with tools
>good at gardening
>basic car knowledge

>self discipline
The foundation for learning anything, pushing yourself to achieve anything at all, seeing through with quitting bad habits and so on.
>people skills
Important everywhere, for family, friendships, romance relationships and professional relationships. Even if you are the most technical scientist, it will help you get hired, and it would greatly benefit you if you can charismatically talk about your field/inventions and so on. Throughout your life you'll have to deal with people and being able to do so with minimal stress and maximum charm will enhance everything.
>ability to self reflect
This is the key to actually learning of your experiences. They are all a source of learning material about your own person, your life, and the answers to how to better either or both, but most people are unable to effectively draw those lessons from their scattered experiences. By reflecting on your actions, motivations, professional performance, flaws and so on you can actively coach yourself and correct mistakes and negative patterns. It might sound easy to "just reflect" but most people lack the mental courage because this also means not accepting your own bullshit excuses and in fact laying bare your own shortcomings and unpleasant sides. Most people would rather look away and avoid that unpleasantness.

1. Go for someone you perceive to be "out of your league." You'll surprise yourself.
2. Never have sex with anyone that doesn't want it as much as you.
3. Never hit anyone unless they are an immediate threat.
4. Every hat should serve a purpose.
5. Never take her to the movies on the first date.
6. Learn to wet shave.
7. Nothing looks more badass than a well-tailored suit.
8. Shave with the grain on the first go-around.
9. Always look a person in the eye when you talk to them.
10. Buy a plunger before you need a plunger.

11. Exercise makes you happy. Run, lift, and play sports.
12. Brush your teeth before you put on your tie.
13. A small amount of your paycheck should go directly to your savings account every month.
14. Call your parents every week.
15. Never wear a clip-on tie.
16. Give a firm handshake.
17. Compliment a love interest on their clothing choice.
18. Never leave a pint unfinished.
19. If you aren't confident, fake it. It will come.
20. You can tell the size of a man by the size of things that bother him.

>>16449124
>2. Never have sex with anyone that doesn't want it as much as you.
lol so you're saying I should only fuck a rabbit in heat?

21. Be conscious of your body language.
22. The only reason to ever point a gun at someone is if you intend to shoot them.
23. Always stand to shake someone's hand.
24. Never lend anything you can't afford to lose.
25. Ask more than you answer. Everybody likes to talk about themselves.
26. Keep a change of clothes at the office.
27. Buy high quality tools, so you only have to buy them once.
28. Manliness is not only being able to take care of yourself, but others as well.
29. Go with the decision that will make for a good story.
30. When you walk, look straight ahead, not at your feet.

>>16449130
41. If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

>>16449049
One of the single best indicators of future success is the ability to delay gratification.

I call this a skill for the fact that this is not something we are born with. However, if you don't develop it when you're young it's far harder to do so in the future. Look up "the marshmallow test."

I'd say the ability to delay gratification is number one for the fact that it can be applied to all other skills and be used to acquire new ones.

>>16449144
This doesn't make sense. There will always be a smartest person in the room, therefore there will always be someone in the wrong room. However, if they leave the room, then there will be a new smartest. So the only option is people keep leaving until there is no one left in that room. How does this help anyone? This is advice for cowards who don't want responsibility.

>>16449135
>Go with the decision that will make for a good story.

I was going to go to the store but decided to go to a strip club. At the strip club I had a choice to either tip or not tip the dancers. A man from the DJ booth yelled with his raspy drunk voice that the guys in the front should start tipping. I decided to not tip because it would make for a better story. A large hairy man came out the shadows to escort me out and I decided again not to cooperate. He grabbed me by the balls and threw me through the door. At first all I wanted was to go to the store.

>>16449135
>Always stand to shake someone's hand

I'm in a wheelchair, asshole.

>>16449128
>Never leave a pint unfinished

I wanted to stop drinking, but they kept buying me new pints. I don't know how much I drank, but the doctors said I'll die if I don't get a new liver. Oh, and they took my shoes after I blacked out at the bar.

>>16449049
Temperance
Prudence
Justice
Fortitude

>>16449156
Have you ever been in a room that's never emptied? Also, who's to say new people won't be arriving as soon as the current smartest person is leaving? How does this help anyone?

>>16449160
exactly.

>>16449167
How does this help anyone?

>>16449186
There's literally no way for this advice to apply to everyone. If I take the advice I can never be in a room alone because I will be the smartest by default. If someone enters the room then one of us will be the smartest and then one of us will need to leave. Even if someone enters, we're back at the same issue as before.

>How does this help anyone?

It doesn't

>>16449173
Easy. Don't start the next pint after finishing the one you want to leave finished. It'll soon be someone else's unfinished pint. How does this become anyone's problem?

>>16449206
You're not thinking things through.
It's said you'll be in the wrong room.
It didn't say that it hurts or is a crime.
Just accept that you should spend less time alone or with just one other guy. It doesn't help.

>>16449215
If someone buys a pint, but doesn't drink it, it becomes an unfinished pint. So if someone buys it, someone will have to drink it. If there's only two people in the bar and both keep buying the other pints, then someone will have to finish then all.

>>16449049
Having a big dick
Being physically fit
Have an alpha personality

That's all you need.

>>16449215
>inb4 rape drug

>>16449231
I will argue that the state of the pint isn't unfinished unless it has been started.

>>16449220
If it's telling you that you're in the wrong room, then what should you do? If you're taking the advice then you should go to a different room, right?

Now, just think through this for a second. If we assume this advice is universal, which the posted implied it was by not saying who it was intended for, we then would have to assume that everyone will be looking for the right room to be in.

So then, we can also assume that one person will always be smarter than the other, and therefore someone will always need to leave the room. If you assume a constant motion of the smartest person leaving - even if someone new enters the room - you will have people in constant transit going from room to room.

If you're the dumbest person in the room and people keep coming and going then you might be able to stay in the room as long as the people who enter it are smarter than you, but that leaves only two possibilities. Either you're a fucking sack of potatoes dumb, or eventually you're going to have to leave the room.

Even if you go to a room filled with geniuses, you gain nothing from it because all the smart people will need to leave.

Now do you see how dumb this is? It's literally not possible for this advice to apply to everyone. So no, it doesn't help.

>>16449240
You can, but I think the pint is started once it's poured. If no one drinks the pint, it's not been finished has it?

>>16449262
You don't HAVE to to anything.

>29. Go with the decision that will make for a good story.

>>16449049
Being able to reproduce. That's the goal of all living creatures. If all else fails, you should at least accomplish this in life.

>>16449266
>poured
No, it's not. You don't look at a full pint and ask 'Is anybody going to finish that?'
You ask 'Is anybody going to drink it?'

>>16449049
mathematics.

>>16449283
And if no one drinks it, what does it become? Unfinished

>>16449277
At best the advice is contradictory, at worst it's impossible to follow. Yep, words to live by.

>>16449049
Knowing how to change a tire.

>>16449345
Just like life itself.

>>16449124
>5. Never take her to the movies on the first date.

And what's the problem with that? I dont get it... ?

>>16449623
He's probably a teen. These are his biggest gripes about life.

Go adopt a cat. Pet it.