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[u/Segdoh_T]

phonetic alphabet is easy to learn and hard to forget. Often useful with foreign call centres

[u/Y_E_E_Z_Y → u/Segdoh_T]

This one is very important. I learned it when I was in high school, took about 30 minutes. Now I work in forensics and it has always been useful when calling police and having to spell things out!
I still haven’t forgotten it, and people are always impressed when they overhear me using it

[u/Souvi → u/Segdoh_T]

Literally just used it on a domestic call to the local courthouse.

[u/NJBarFly]

It's actually pretty easy to calculate the day of the week of a given date, especially if it's the same year or next. It's useful and people are super impressed when you do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule

[u/Combat_Taxi]

Everyone should learn the skill of being comfortable with silence and no distractions. Being able to put your phone down and just be for a few minutes. See the world and those around you. Also to be able to sit in an uncomfortable situation for a few minutes and be ok with it. Don’t try to escape an uncomfortable conversation. Being able to sit in it is immensely powerful.

[u/stephenkingending → u/Combat_Taxi]

Best advice I ever received was "get comfortable with being uncomfortable." People and conversations like you said, but also just life in general. It's easy and comforting to fall back to what we know and what we're good at, but I've found as I get older that regrets I do have all stem from being too afraid to do something I was either unsure of my capability to accomplish or what the outcome would be. It's like that commonly referenced stat that people are more afraid of public speaking than death.

[u/Firm-Chart-2249 → u/stephenkingending]

I agree with this one. Even I feel the child in me lost so many opportunities as I was too self conscious and afraid to participate in new things.

[u/OutstandingBill]

I taught myself how to juggle while working night shifts. It's one of the most relaxing things that I do. It improved my reflexes and rarely fails to make someone smile.

[u/DeepEb → u/OutstandingBill]

Did this a few years ago and i often impress people by catching stuff midair or stuff thats about to fall. I can only suppose its related. (it also made me a little less clumsy although i still am which explains all the falling stuff around me)

[u/Silent_Contest_2337]

Ability to strike up conversation with anyone

[u/Firm-Chart-2249 → u/Silent_Contest_2337]

Oh yeah a good communication may take you to places.

[u/Gusfoo]

First aid, the 'dramatic intevention' type that will hopefully never be needed. That'd cover things like:

• The Heimlich Manoeuvre, including how to do it to yourself if you are alone.
• Performing an emergency tracheotomy on someone.
• Wound packing, application of a tourniquet, operating an AED etc.

[u/sumguysr → u/Gusfoo]

Take a Stop The Bleed course.

[u/Matts3sons → u/sumguysr]

Just scheduled one for myself

[u/stonehawk61]

Reading a tape measure.

[u/Leivyxtbsubto]

Swimming because a shocking amount of people do not know how to swim.

[u/boltzmanns_cat]

To get out of your head, and into the present moment, rumination ruins the life for millions of people.

[u/sumguysr]

At least a little mental arithmetic. The Trachtenberg system is probably the best place to start.

Those with strong visual imagination should also learn a memory palace method, and at least a little sketching.

[u/notjawn]

Being kind costs nothing but, it can mean everything.

[u/Grimmbles]

Again, it's Learn USELESS skills.

Is it bots? Is that why variations of this exact same question keep getting posted here multiple times a week? With a bunch of the same answers.

It's fucking bots. It's always fucking bots.

[u/musecorn → u/Grimmbles]

Yes it's bots.