- Spend your 20s learning key life skills and you'll be set for future success.
- Those skills include making a decision and listening quietly.
- They also include living within your means and negotiating.
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Your 20s can be a confusing time.
You might not be in school anymore, but you still have plenty to learn before you're a fully functioning adult.
To help you navigate this tricky decade, we reviewed several Quora threads on helpful skills to develop and ways to spend time in your 20s and highlighted the most useful insights.
Here are the life skills every 20-something should master.
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How to be present
This skill is less fluffy and more practical than it sounds.
"Social media throws out all these qualifiers for happiness," writes Jennifer Taylor.
"You just need to be debt free and then you will be happy. You just have to buy this shirt and you will [be] effortlessly cool and then you will be happy. You just need to wake up at 5:00 a.m. every morning and be productive as f*ck and you will be happy.
"You don't need to do any of these things in order to appreciate all the wonderful things in your life that you have already. That's not being unambitious. That's pragmatic gratitude."
Indeed, Stanford psychologist Emma Seppälä previously told Business Insider that living in the moment, instead of mentally racing toward the future, is key to happiness and success.
How to handle uncertainty
Planning only works to an extent.
That's why Dylan Woon recommends learning to "embrace uncertainty."
He writes: "Nothing is really certain, after all. Instead of clinging to the fake certainty, move beyond your comfort zone and see what's out there. You're young and can afford calculated risk. Your life should be a meaningful adventure."
How to just be honest
When you're late to an appointment, it's tempting to pin the blame on gridlock or train delays.
Instead, says Quora user Michael Hoffman, "just apologize. You don't have to give details. 'I planned poorly' is a hundred times better than risking your integrity by inanely blaming traffic."
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