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The 12 life skills I strongly feel are most important some of which schools touch on but don’t emphasize nor go into enough detail about. Too much graphing parabolas, memorizing the quadratic formula, and learning to diagram sentences and not enough real world material to use and apply. With that being said, here are the top 12 life skills I wish I learned more about in school: Via Jim Lerman 
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You’ve likely heard that multitasking is problematic, but new studies show that it kills your performance and may even damage your brain.
A Special Skill?
But what if some people have a special gift for multitasking? The Stanford researchers compared groups of people based on their tendency to multitask and their belief that it helps their performance. They found that heavy multitaskers—those who multitask a lot and feel that it boosts their performance—were actually worse at multitasking than those who like to do a single thing at a time. Via The Learning Factor
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
October 8, 2014 7:44 PM
People who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information cannot pay attention, recall information, or switch from one job to another as well as those who complete one task at a time. 
Graeme Reid's curator insight,
October 8, 2014 7:55 PM
Multitasking in meetings and other social settings indicates low self- and social-awareness, two emotional intelligence (EQ) skills that are critical to success at work. 
Aaron Curtis's curator insight,
October 9, 2014 9:08 AM
Well I have to say this would be a home run. Throughout high school, my jobs and even college, I have noticed that multitasking has become somewhat of an acquired trait. This article speaks on some key points that relate not only to PR practitioners, but aims towards students as well. Staying focus on one task at a given moment can help reduce the "noise" in your head; Keeping that in mind, working on one project at a time also provides you with a window for a more accurate end result
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If someone asked you to list your skill set, you probably wouldn’t mention the fact that you show up for work every day. But Jon Acuff, author of Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck, says you should rethink your definition of skills and recognize that the small things like showing up are often the "invisible" things that contribute most to your success.
"Most people think of the word ‘skills’ too narrowly, assuming that it means a subject you’ve earned a degree in, or bullet points you can list on a resume," he says. "But skills are more than that. Your employer expects you to be at work every day, for example, and if you Google, ‘why do people get fired,’ absenteeism is on every list." Via The Learning Factor
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
October 27, 2015 5:46 AM
You should rethink your definition of skills: the small, often invisible, things contribute most to your success. 
robfranklyn's curator insight,
October 27, 2015 7:13 PM
for us students, this looks okay. possibly a few monographs to peruse and the opportunity to reassess our skill set.
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