You’ve seen them 100 instances: posts on locations like Reddit or Buzzfeed with the 10, 50, or 6,000 expertise EVERY man MUST know, from shopping for a swimsuit to altering the oil in your automotive to constructing a log cabin by hand.

Look, I get nice satisfaction from including to my hands-on expertise. Carpentry, first assist, and beginning a fireplace are helpful issues to know.

However let’s face information: Most of us put on fits a few times per yr, purchase our meals in a climate-controlled miracle referred to as a grocery retailer, and outsource most residence, vehicle, and healthcare duties to professionals. Why? As a result of in a posh society it’s environment friendly to pay specialists for his or her data!

What our society wants, nonetheless, is for an entire lot of individuals to have interaction with the refined, tough work of being a greater human … no more of a handyman.

Right here at Primer we’re kicking off 2021 with a dialogue of expertise to encourage progress and growth within the new yr.

However as a substitute of the same-old stuff you see everywhere in the web we’re going deep with a listing of concrete life expertise you will use day by day, month, and yr for the remainder of your life.

These aren’t expertise you may choose up in a day – they’re practices you have to develop and hone over the course of a lifetime.

Regardless of what number of engines you rebuild or emergency tourniquets you twist, likelihood is you could possibly use some work on these life expertise.

How To Use This Record

It will be unattainable to launch on all 15 without delay, so choose and select just a few that talk to you and give attention to them this yr.

Personally, I’m going to bookmark this checklist and are available again to it periodically – as a result of these 15 gadgets include the work of a lifetime.

There’s by no means been a extra vital time to get began constructing these life expertise.