Knowledge and Skills that Matter
Life Recovery Priorities for Adults/Parenting Priorities for Parents
In the ideal world we would all be raised by perfect parents, in perfect communities, in circumstances that feel safe and fair. Oh yeah, and we'd all be brilliant learners. But few people are so lucky.
Below are four critical priorities of knowledge that parents should be deliberate about teaching their kids. And if they didn't, consider them four categories that adults should teach themselves about if it feels like life isn't going the way you'd like.
Emotional Health
If your own thoughts work against you, life will be difficult no matter how many other blessings you earn or are handed.
Relational/Social Health
Two heads are always better than one. Unless they aren't. One must learn basic skills of getting along with others. Two ears and one mouth AND non-judgementalism are a terrific start.
Physical Health
Most of us are born healthy "enough". But failing to learn the basics necessary to remain physically healthy will accrue into no longer healthy "enough" to enjoy a wide range of what life has to offer. Psychology is starting to recognize that mind and body have very strong cross-effects with each other. A happy mind allows a body to flourish, but an unhappy body will exert increasing friction on emotional flourishing.
Financial Health
Most of us will reach financial independence. Money actually is "almost everything" because even if you achieve the first three healths you will experience unimaginable friction in your life without adequate food, water, safe shelter, etc. Everyone simply must learn to live within whatever budget they are able to achieve.
A page with more details about the four priorities is here.
Hu's Wisdoms for Humanity
It is always at least potentially useful the more information you can gather about life. To that end, there are hundreds of wonderful wisdoms, most of which have been said in dozens of slightly different ways by dozens of authors over thousands of years… and then reprinted into different book titles by numerous publishers over the years.
In short, it is easy to spend a lifetime reading variants of the same wisdoms over and over and get overly diverted from putting in the effort necessary to successfully implement the most important ones into your own life.
Below is a somewhat expanded list of the smallest set of especially powerful wisdoms that I once shared with my son to help him avoid this fate and to help keep him on his own path towards his best life possible. Most truly valuable wisdoms are highly conditional. In other words, in the wrong circumstances they represent exactly the worst advice possible. I believe most people will find that all of these wisdoms provide superb guidance for almost any person regardless of how much or little experience and knowledge they have had time to gather in their own lives.
We are all born into different circumstances and thus have different potentials for what we may be able to do with our lives. But there IS a "best possible life" for each of us. It is the life we will be smiling at from our deathbed if we are confident that we always, or usually, made the best choices available to us at every moment in our lives.
These 16 wisdoms will help everyone do that. It's like having a set of keys where one or more of the set will lead you to the best available choice every time. BUT--- failing to understand even just one of them properly may fail to provide all guidance necessary.
See if you agree.
Select the hyperlink for any wisdom you wish to see a brief explanation for.
Number 01: Seek to grow your wisdom.
Number 02: Know the truth about wisdoms.
Number 03: Be your own best friend.
Number 04: Know the truth about suffering
Number 05: Life is not fair.
Number 06: Not suffering is not enough.
Number 07: Try your best.
Number 08: You can--- you must re-evaluate everything about your life after your childhood.
Number 09: Know your life goals and priorities. Keep an up-to-date life plan.
Number 10: Know the insight of diversity.
Number 11: Understand the difference between wants and needs.
Number 12: Understand the difference between information, knowledge and belief.
Number 13: Make a personal commitment to deliberate and sustained effort towards self-evolution.
Number 14: Align your life with your goals and priorities.
Number 15: Live in Earth-time whenever possible or necessary.
Number 16: On a path towards unconditional Love: The nearly inevitable result of living wisely.