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The #1 Life Skill
Depending on what you have access to, there are millions of life skills to become good at. We can take classes, watch YouTube videos, buddy up with an expert, attend a workshop for pretty much anything. So to narrow it down to a #1 life skill may seem like a bit of hubris.
Hear me out.
This skill can be started immediately but takes years to master.
This skill has the greatest impact on all the areas of your life.
This skill is free.
Everyone has access to this skill.
It is the skill of Self-Intervention.
Self-intervention is pretty much what it sounds like. It is the ability to intervene on a thought pattern, a feeling, a behavior.
We are the only creatures that can observe our own thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Why do you think that is? Based on evolutionary theory, there must be a specific reason we are designed this way. I think it is because consciousness is at the top of the evolutionary ladder; the high point on the hierarchy of being. Consciousness reveals your authority to choose, your ability to connect with others, your power create. And higher levels of consciousness and awareness are the direct result of learning to master self-intervention.
