Useful skills in life

What skills or areas of knowledge are useful in life? Whether it would be daily or eventually in life if an event or situation would require it. I'll start it off.

CPR. I think everyone should know or learn CPR if an unpredictable situation would require it. If a loved one slipped into cardiac arrest, you performing CPR on them would buy them extra time until an ambulance arrives. It could mean potentially saving a life.

Knowing how to breath comes in handy.

How to bench press.

learning how to walk

You'd die first in the movie.

Sometimes you gotta run, before you can walk.

All you need to know is how to use the interwebs and you can learn everything else from there.

How to change a car tire, a light bulb, and a diaper.

Some knowledge of plumbing, electrical and pant/skirt hemming. Cooking to save money. Laundry, specifically stain removing. Massage, soccer and like the OP said, First Aid.

how to hunt trolls

What? There are many more weight lifting exercises more important than that.

• Cooking
• Basic First Aid
• Swimming
• Basic Survival Skills
• How to Build a Fire
• Farming
• Basic Construction

Swimming, talking yourself out of a dangerous situation/attempted mugging or robbery, riding a bike, fighting.

@thetruebarryallen: I should be dead if that's the case.

Wait - you're NOT dead?!

@thetruebarryallen: you don't really need that stuff if you live in an urban area.

A useful skill for me is being sexually appealing enough to get the ladies to do my bidding. And money, that helps.

@thetruebarryallen: I dunno.

I don't have the: Know if you're dead life skill.

How does one know if he is dead or alive?

Wanted....

Dead or alive.....

Had to say it.

The OP just stated skills that would be useful either daily or EVENTUALLY.

I feel like it'd be a huge benefit for people who can't afford healthier food choices to learn to farm - even if they have small patches or tiny vegetable gardens, it's still good to know how to make food for yourself.

Swimming will always be useful - no matter what.

Cooking is useful even if you live in an urban area, you COULD eat out all the time but that'd get really expensive.

Basic first aid is good if you or someone else get's hurt be it from a car crash or just a simple skinned knee.

Construction is good just so you don't always have to hire out help if you need to build a simple device or piece of furniture within your house, also if you ever need to make home repairs.

Fire & Survival - suppose it wouldn't be AS useful, but it's still good to know just in case.

All in all - I live in Maine and these are all the skills I feel are essential in my area :)

Right, like curls!

A large penis and the skill to use it well.

I don't know how to do a damn thing. I always have to learn on the fly. Like this weekend when I had to swap out a dryer power cord from a 4 prong to a 3. The only info I was given was the guy at Lowes said "Be careful, that's a lotta voltage". Thanks dude.

@longbowhunter: Ha, sounds like the type of advice I'd give.

Lol Broscience for the win!

Learn how to think. It does wonders.

Bow hunting skills. Numchuck skills.

ALWAYS that one person who beats me to it

Knots. The right knot for the right circumstance can make all the difference.

Knowing foreign languages. Useful and actually opens your mind.

Driving

First Aid/CPR w/AED use

Cooking

Proper grocery shopping

Education and communication.

Education is kinda a useful life skill, at least at a basic level for everyone if they don't want to go into further education.

Manipulation.

Driving.

Cooking.

How to talk to people.

F**king.

Being a lyrical wordsmith

Bullshitting.

I agree I'll add reading and math

everything else is trading time/skills currently deemed valuable by society for money to get what those with the above skills have done.

I'll piggyback on this one. Listening is a good skill to have. Learning this makes one more patient and a better communicator.

Knowing the opposite sex.

Boxing

Money- We entitled folk simply do not have the time for peasants and their "skills".

How to siphon gas from other cars

Driving.

Weight lifting doesn't teach you how to fight..

@thitiki: Oh were just messing around. Weightlifting does keep you in shape though. But yeah fighting is more useful.

Cooking.

*approves*