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55 Skills You Don’t Need – and How Mastering Them Will Change Your Life
The Competencies Project
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Stuck in a job?
No real friends?
Trouble making decisions?
Failure to launch?
Unmotivated?
Thriving in the 21st Century can be tough. But there’s help.
The 55 Skills You Don’t Need offers a unique and much-needed approach to developing the foundational life skills adults crave today. The 55 Skills describes concrete, accessible real-world activities that work – and they work because they indirectly and successfully build traits like self-esteem, critical thinking, communication, and a sense of purpose. And those are the traits that make life manageable and, yes, fun.
Most books on challenges and growth, or ‘adulting’ for younger readers, prescribe the qualities you need – perseverance, direction, social skills, focus, confidence, and emotional intelligence. But how do you get perseverance or leadership or confidence? They aren’t really taught at school. And you can’t buy them – there’s no “Virtues Store” on Amazon.
We need a practical approach to build these foundational inner competencies.
Founded in neuroscience and with examples from the US Army, Montessori schools, and Carnegie Mellon University, The 55 Skills helps build your brain and body architecture so you can do everything you want and need to do – now and into the future. The proposed activities provide both a foundation and a springboard to move forward – wherever life takes you.