## Metadata - Author: [[Jessica Wildfire]] - Full Title: The Ones Who “Make It” Will Possess These 7 Super Skills - Category: #articles - URL: https://medium.com/p/aafa7d5c0849 ## Highlights - Survival skills like my grandparents knew turned into hobbies for the upper-middle class, who made wealth by moving numbers around on spreadsheets or (lately) entertaining people on social media. Now the world is changing again. Some of us can feel it. - Forget hope, says Ron Finley. “You can’t do nothing with hope…but guess what you can do with opportunity?” - The American middle class has lived in a precious little bubble for the last 30 years, and that bubble is wearing thin. - Humans used to know how to do nothing. They used to look forward to parts of the day when they’d lounge around. They even used to do it in the middle of the night, between first and second sleep. They didn’t have all this artificial light keeping them distracted. - We’re going to realize all the dreams we’ve been hustling after aren’t worth a cool glass of water on a hot day.