Guys- what skills do you wish you'd learned earlier in life?

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Great stuff, minus Rex's paranoia that I want his username and ensuing OT about programming :lol:

So for me it was more small stuff, like learning how to fix a great steak (or first date dinner for that matter), learning how to dance, learning how to work a networking event, shoot a gun, basic self defense, not to be a dork around a hot girl, gentlemen's etiquette, men's hygiene, host a party, how to iron, how to sharpen a knife... etc. Plus the financial management comments.

It's all stuff I'm good at now, but it'd been nice to have someone shown me the 80/20 start to them ("do this 20 of the skill and it'll get you 80% of the way to perfection, then work on the rest if/when you want"). Versus firing up YouTube and getting 20% right and having to learn the remaining 80%. I feel like I could have saved a lot of time and been a lot more effective overall.

At one time "Finishing Schools" were popular but have fallen out of style now.

Or maybe it was that I was brought up in a small rural town, but I tend to think that this applies also to those brought up in cities - maybe just different skillsets (how to run a chain saw, drive in the snow/offroad, use a drill, etc).

Anyone agree or disagree?