I was reading through a link on an Overcoming Bias post about the AK Model and came across the idea that, ” the Social return on many types of investments far exceed their private return”. To rephrase this: there are investments you can make such as getting a college education which benefit others more than they benefit you. These seem like they could be some good skills to focus on which might be often ignored. Obvious examples I can think of would be the Heimlich maneuver, CPR, and various social skills.
Do you know of any good low hanging fruit in terms of skills or time investments a person can make which can provide a lot of benefit to the people around them (company, family, friends, etc.) but don’t actually benefit themselves?
There are cases where better being able to perceive whether someone else really wants to do what you ask them to or whether they are just saying “yes” because they feel an obligation benefits the other person a lot more.
I was reading through a link on an Overcoming Bias post about the AK Model and came across the idea that, ” the Social return on many types of investments far exceed their private return”. To rephrase this: there are investments you can make such as getting a college education which benefit others more than they benefit you. These seem like they could be some good skills to focus on which might be often ignored. Obvious examples I can think of would be the Heimlich maneuver, CPR, and various social skills.
Do you know of any good low hanging fruit in terms of skills or time investments a person can make which can provide a lot of benefit to the people around them (company, family, friends, etc.) but don’t actually benefit themselves?
There are cases where better being able to perceive whether someone else really wants to do what you ask them to or whether they are just saying “yes” because they feel an obligation benefits the other person a lot more.
Writing educational articles, editing wikipedia, contributing to free software projects.
I think that parenting skills are a good example of such situation
Getting pregnant.