There are two things most people take into account when deciding if a life skill is worth learning:
Time investment – How long will it take to learn if you drill regularly?
Value – Is it a skill worth learning? What’s it worth to my life?
Most people will tell you that the Value of a skill is directly related to the Time Investment required to learn it. Seems intuitive. If it doesn’t take a lot of time, anyone can do it, and it probably isn’t of huge value to society.
Take for instance,
Running a Cash Register:
You get trained in a day and make $7.15 an hour. Low time investment, low value. Conversely, take high-value skills:
Learning Mandarin
Want to learn to speak Mandarin? Great, after intensive practice for a year you should be functionally literate. High time investment, high value.
Plug in any skill you want. With almost no exceptions, you will find that time investment and value move in direct relation to one another. Huge time investment? Probably a sweet skill. Easy as serving a cup of coffee? No one cares.
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