Free course · Everyday life skills

Life Skills — short lessons on the skills school rarely taught

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Risk and uncertainty, knowing yourself, staying safe online, leadership, adaptability, ethics, meaning and practical life, in 41 lessons across 8 short sets — each with a worked example, a practice prompt and something real to try this week.

Each lesson shows the same situation read twice — the first reasonable reaction, and the same moment with the idea — then names the common way people take the lesson wrongly. Each set ends with something to practise, something real to try this week, and a question to reflect on.

The lesson sets

• Risk & uncertainty — Move forward when you cannot know how things will turn out, without gambling and without freezing. (6 lessons)
• Knowing yourself — Understand what you want, what you value and how you work, before trying to steer the rest of your life. (5 lessons)
• Staying safe online — Protect your accounts, your money and your attention online, so technology works for you rather than on you. (5 lessons)
• Leadership — Help people move toward something worthwhile together, whether or not you have a title that says so. (5 lessons)
• Adaptability — Change your plans, your skills and even your direction when the world changes, without losing who you are. (5 lessons)
• Ethics & dilemmas — Think clearly about hard choices where good values pull in different directions, and use your power responsibly. (5 lessons)
• Meaning & purpose — Explore what makes your life feel worthwhile, in your own words and from within your own beliefs. (5 lessons)
• Practical life — Handle the everyday admin of adult life calmly, so that a lost document or an emergency is an inconvenience, not a crisis. (5 lessons)