What’s the most underrated life skill?

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Compassion, empathy, mindfulness, emotional-regulation, distress tolerance, communication, critical-thinking, optimism, conflict resolution, and self-awareness are but a few of the essential life skills that help someone be skillful in life.

But…

I think of families who live under the tyranny of an abusive parent.

I think of corrupt governments, greed and how the rich seek power and wealth while poverty increases.

I think of the environment as it suffers while humans populate like a virus across the entire planet.

How do I pick an underrated life skill when humans have free-will to inflict such pain and suffering across the globe?

Then I circle back to the examples of life skills and perhaps self-awareness is the most important because change begins with self.

Only through awareness can I make positive change, because deep down, inside us all, is love and with self-awareness is the ability to do the next right thing.

S, 🌻

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