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1. Ten Commandments according to the Synodal Bible translation:
"one. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; may you have no other gods before me.
2. Do not make for yourself an idol and no image of what is in the sky above, and what is on the earth below, and what is in the water below the earth; do not worship them and do not serve them, for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, punishing children for the guilt of fathers up to the third and fourth generation who hate Me, and showing mercy to a thousand generations to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
3. Do not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave without punishment the one who utters His name in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy; work six days and do all your deeds, and the seventh day is the Sabbath to the Lord your God: do not do any deed there, neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your servant, nor your handmaid, nor your cattle, nor a stranger. that is in your gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them; and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and sanctified it.
5. Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee.
6. Don't kill.
7. Don't commit adultery.
8. Don't steal.
9. Do not bear false testimony against your neighbor.
10. Do not covet your neighbor's house; do not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his servant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is with your neighbor. "
2. One of the seven wonders of the world - the Cheops pyramid. It is considered the oldest miracle on the list - its construction is estimated around the XXVI century. BC e. Despite its antiquity, this is the only structure of the seven old wonders of the world that has survived to our times. Its height is 137.2 m (originally - 146.6 m), the length of each side at the base is 230.38 m, composed of 2,340,000 limestone blocks, each of which weighs more than 50 centners and is held by its own gravity, without any mounts. During the construction, primitive tools were used (diorite hammers, copper saws and axes, tools made of polished stone), but the blocks were so skillfully processed that the gaps between them did not exceed 0.5 mm.
Location: Egypt, the city of Giza, the cemetery of ancient Memphis on the left bank of the Nile. Today it is part of Greater Cairo.
3. Nobel Prizes are awarded in accordance with the will of Alfred Nobel, drawn up on November 27, 1895, and providing for the allocation of capital for the award of prizes in five areas: physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine, literature and contribution to world peace.
For this purpose, the Nobel Foundation was created in 1900 - a private, independent, non-governmental organization with an initial capital of SEK 31 million. The first prizes were awarded on December 10, 1901. Since 1969, on the initiative of the Swedish Bank, the prize in economics has also been awarded (the official name is the prize in economics in memory of Alfred Nobel, awarded by the decision of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences).
4. Cyrillic (Cyrillic) - the alphabet used to write the words of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian languages, as well as many languages of non-Slavic peoples inhabiting Russia and neighboring states. In the Middle Ages, it was also used to write numbers. The Cyrillic alphabet is named after Cyril, the creator of the Glagolitic alphabet - the first Slavic alphabet. The authorship of the Cyrillic alphabet belongs to the missionaries - followers of Cyril and Methodius. The oldest monuments of Cyrillic writing date back to the turn of the 9th-10th centuries. Most likely, this letter was invented in Bulgaria. Initially, it was a Greek alphabet, to the 24 letters of which 19 letters were added to denote the sounds of the Slavic languages that are absent in the Greek language. From the X century. they began to write in Cyrillic in Russia.
5. Anthem of the Russian Federation
Music by A. Alexandrov. Verses by S. Mikhalkov.
Russia is our sacred state,
Russia is our beloved country.
Mighty will, great glory -
Your property for all time!
From the southern seas to the polar region
Our forests and fields are spread out.
You are the only one in the world! You are the only one -
Native land protected by God!Hail, our free Fatherland,
The age-old union of fraternal peoples,
Ancestors given the wisdom of the people!
Hail, country! We are proud of you!Wide space for dreams and for life
The years to come open to us.
We are given strength by our loyalty to the Fatherland.
So it was, so it is and it will always be so!Hail, our free Fatherland,
The age-old union of fraternal peoples,
Ancestors given the wisdom of the people!
Hail, country! We are proud of you!
6. Researchers are confident that space was formed after the so-called Big Bang, before which nothing existed: no time, no matter, no light. And then an inexplicable expansion of energy (explosion) happened, and the greatest mystery - the Universe - was formed. This explosion occurred in a matter of seconds, after which the universe, which at first was a ball of fire, began to rapidly grow and cool. Since the Universe has occurred as a result of an explosion, the most likely death for it is the Great Freeze, scientists believe. And it will happen as a result of the fact that due to the constant movement and expansion of many galaxies, the Universe will eventually lose heat, that is, useful energy.
7. The most widespread of the world's religions is Christianity, with 1.6 billion followers. It retains its strongest positions in Europe, America and Australia.
Christianity appeared at the beginning of our era as a development of biblical wisdom that had been built up over the previous 2000 years. The Bible teaches to understand and realize the meaning of life. Biblical thinking places critical importance on the issue of life and death, the end of the world. Jesus Christ preached the ideas of brotherhood, industriousness, non-acquisitiveness and peacefulness. Serving wealth was condemned and the superiority of spiritual values over material ones was proclaimed. The first Ecumenical Council, which met in Nicaea in 325, laid the dogmatic foundations of the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church for many centuries to come.
8. The human body consists of various chemical elements, and the amount of these elements produced over a lifetime is amazing. So, there is enough chlorine in our bodies to disinfect six huge pools, and more than 200 matchboxes can be made from phosphorus. The strongest part of the human body is the hair, it decays the longest. Archaeologists have found mummies buried millennia before the beginning of our era, and the only thing that has survived from living tissues, in addition to the skeleton, is hair. The human body produces a lot of thermal energy every day: for example, the heat generated by our body per day is enough to boil 30 liters of cold water.
In an adult of average build, the skin is about 2 m 2. The skin is constantly renewed throughout life, our body sheds about 18 kg of skin over a lifetime in the form of dead and dead cells, which are replaced by new cells.
9. Hercules accomplished the first feat by strangling a huge Nemean lion, which was born by the monsters Typhon and Echidna and caused devastation in Argolis. Hercules' arrows bounced off the lion's thick skin, but the hero stunned the beast with his club and strangled it with his hands. In memory of his first feat, Hercules established the Nemean Games, which were held in the ancient Peloponnese every two years.
10. Countries of the world and their capitals
11. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) - the great German composer and organist, a representative of the Baroque era. One of the greatest composers in the history of music. During his life, Bach wrote over 1000 works. All significant genres of that time are represented in his work, except for opera. He summarized the achievements of the musical art of the Baroque period. He is the founder of the most famous musical dynasty.
12. The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC. e. It is believed to have been developed by Egyptian astronomers. And it was named after the Roman emperor. It acquired its final form in 8 AD. e.
The year began on January 1, since it was on this day that the elected consuls took office, and it counted 12 months or 365 days, sometimes 366. This "sometimes" differs it from the Gregorian calendar.
The problem was that the Earth makes a complete revolution around the Sun - a tropical year - in 365.24219878 days. In the calendar, the number of days is whole. It turns out that if there are 365 days in a year, then every year the calendar will go astray - go ahead by almost a quarter of a day. In the Julian calendar, they did it simply - to correct the discrepancy, it was assumed that every fourth year would become a leap year (annus bissextus) and would have 366 days. Thus, the average length of a year in the Julian calendar is 365.25 days, which is already much closer to a real tropical year. However, the calendar began to lag behind every year by 11 min 14 s. In 128 years it will be already a day. This led to the fact that some dates associated with astronomical phenomena began to shift. As a result, it became necessary to reform the calendar.
13. Ten masterpieces of world cinema (according to the directors):
1. "Tokyo Story" - Yasujiro Ozu, 1953
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick, 1968
3. "Citizen Kane" - Orson Welles, 1941
4. "8 and a half" - Federico Fellini, 1963
5. "Taxi Driver" - Martin Scorsese, 1976
6. "Apocalypse Now" - Francis Ford Coppola, 1979
7. "The Godfather" - Francis Ford Coppola, 1972
8. "Vertigo" - Alfred Hitchcock, 1958
9. "Mirror" - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974
10. "The Bicycle Thieves" - Vittorio De Sica, 1948
14. Darwinism has been criticized by a number of religious representatives who believe that it is contrary to the divine creation of man. The fact is that Darwinism explains the origin of man by a long evolution, and this, according to the literal reading of the sacred texts, runs counter to the relatively recent formation of the world. At the same time, the Catholic Church with a special papal encyclical - Humani generis - recognized that the theory of evolution does not contradict the teachings of the Church and "can be considered as a hypothesis in the question of the origin of the human body."
15. Tsars and emperors of Russia:
Mikhail Fedorovich Gentle (1613-1645)
Alexey Mikhailovich Quiet (1645-1676)
Fedor Alekseevich (1676-1682)
Sofya Alekseevna (1682-1689)
Peter I Alekseevich the Great (1689-1725)
Catherine I Alekseevna (1725-1727)
Peter II Alekseevich (1727-1730)
Anna Ioannovna (1730-1740)
Ivan VI Antonovich (1740-1741)
Elizaveta Petrovna (1741-1761)
Peter III Fedorovich (1761-1762)
Catherine II Alekseevna the Great (1762-1796)
Pavel I Petrovich (1796-1801)
Alexander I Pavlovich the Blessed (1801-1825)
Konstantin Pavlovich (1825)
Nicholas I Pavlovich (1825-1855)
Alexander II Nikolaevich (1855-1881)
Alexander III Alexandrovich (1881-1894)
Nicholas II Alexandrovich (1894-1917)
16. The Vatican is a dwarf state, the smallest in the world, located in Rome, the capital of Italy. In international law, the Vatican itself is only the territory in which the Holy See is located at the moment - the collective name of the Pope and the Roman Curia, one of the main administrative bodies of the Catholic Church. So, the embassies of other countries are not accredited at the Vatican, but at the Holy See. A significant part of the territory is occupied by St. Peter's Cathedral and the square of the same name, which are the center of worship for Catholics around the world. Almost the entire perimeter of the country (about 3200 m) is bounded by a wall that prevents illegal entry. As befits a real state, the Vatican has everything: a railway and a telegraph, a telephone and television, a radio station and a treasury, rulers and subjects, a border guarded by guards.
17. Abstractionism (lat. Abstractio - "removal, distraction") - the direction of art, which abandoned the image of forms close to reality in painting and sculpture. By creating certain color combinations and geometric shapes, various associations are evoked in the viewer. The main representatives of abstractionism were: V.V. Kandinsky (1866-1944), P. Picasso (1881-1973).
18. Continent (mainland, part of the world) is a large area of land or crust. Much of it is located above sea level.
There are seven continents on Earth - Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica. However, you can often find other opinions about the number, because in different traditions different numbers of continents are accepted, hence the periodic confusion with numbers. For example, sometimes North and South America are counted as a single continent of America, since they are, in fact, not separated by water (the artificial Panama Canal is not counted). This interpretation is popular in Spanish-speaking countries. It is also believed that Europe, Asia and Africa are one continent - Afro-Eurasia - since they occupy an undivided land area. Europe and Asia, which have an extremely implicit demarcation, are often called Eurasia. Hence the results of the calculation, when there are from four to seven continents on the Earth.
The largest continent is Asia. This applies to both the area (29 %), and the number of population (60 %). The smallest continent is Australia (5.14% and 0.54%, respectively). Antarctica is not on the list, because this icy continent is unsuitable for a comfortable life and is practically uninhabited.
19. Atlantis, according to the ancient Greeks, is a continent that supposedly occupied a part of the Atlantic Ocean to the west of the Pillars of Hercules (Strait of Gibraltar), and later sank into the sea without a trace.
The idea of the legendary Atlantis most likely developed from the stories of Phoenician and Carthaginian merchants who sailed far to the west, but numerous attempts to geographically fix Atlantis have so far been unsuccessful. If you collect all the data about where Atlantis could be, you would get a fascinating book in which you would have to talk about South America, with which the famous philosopher Francis Bacon identified Atlantis in the utopia "New Atlantis", and about the North Sea, where not far from the Heligoland Islands, according to the German pastor Jurgen Spanut, was a mysterious continent, and about the search for it at the beginning of the 19th century. from Yucatan to Mongolia and from Svalbard to Saint Helena. Atlantis was "prescribed" in Brazil, Scandinavia, Palestine, in the Pas-de-Calais, etc.
20. American astronauts on July 20, 1969 landed on the lunar surface. The first person to set foot on the moon was Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong.
6 hours after "landing" astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin donned spacesuits with a backpack system, opened the hatch and descended to the lunar surface. All countries, except the USSR and China, broadcasted about the landing of a man on the moon.
The first people on the Moon paid tribute to all American and Soviet colleagues who died: their medals, as well as a capsule with messages from the heads of 74 states (the USSR was not among them) were left on the Moon. On the landing stage were attached a map of the Earth and a sign with the inscription: “Here people from planet Earth first set foot on the moon. We came in peace from all of humanity. " These words were signed by the astronauts and the President of the United States.
After the flight, the crew members and lunar rock samples underwent strict quarantine, which did not reveal any lunar microorganisms.
The successful completion of the Apollo 11 flight program signified the achievement of the national goal set by US President John F. Kennedy in May 1961 - to land on the moon by the end of the decade, and marked the victory of the United States in the "lunar race" with the USSR.
21. The Gregorian calendar was the result of the reform of the Julian calendar by Pope Gregory XIII. The project was developed by Luigi Lilio, and according to this project, in the future, only those secular years were to be considered leap years, the number of hundreds of years of which is evenly divisible by 4 (1600, 2000, 2400), and others will be considered simple. The accumulated since 8 AD was also eliminated. e. an error of 10 days, and according to the pope's decree of February 24, 1582, it was established that October 4, 1582 should come immediately on October 15.
In the new Gregorian calendar, the average length of the year was 365.2425 days. The error was only 26 s, and the discrepancy per day accumulated over about 3300 years. In the future, it will be possible to declare each year, divisible by 4000 without a remainder, not a leap year, and then the average value of the year will be 365.24225 days, with an even smaller error.
22. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are included in the list of the seven wonders of the world. Created in the VI century. BC e. by order of the king of desert Babylon Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife, these gardens were supposed to comfort her and remind her of her distant homeland. The name of Semiramis, the Assyrian queen, appeared here by mistake, but nevertheless it was firmly entrenched in history.
The tiers of the gardens were raised by ledges and connected by staircases lined with slabs of pink and white stone. To water the plants, they pumped water from the Euphrates all day. Plants of near and far countries, trees, palms, flowers lifted to great heights by complex structures - all this made an indelible impression on the people of that time, the gardens in dusty, arid Babylon seemed a miracle. Location: Babylon, Mesopotamia (Mesopotamia), about 50 km south of modern Baghdad.
23. UNESCO World Heritage (eng. World Heritage) - natural or man-made objects, the priority tasks in relation to which, according to UNESCO, are their preservation and popularization due to special cultural, historical or ecological significance. As of 2016, there are 1,031 sites on the World Heritage List, of which 802 are cultural, 197 are natural and 32 are mixed.
24. The most ancient of the world religions is Buddhism, which arose in the middle of the 1st millennium BC. e. in India. After more than 15 centuries of dominance in India, Buddhism gave way to Hinduism. However, Buddhism spread widely across the countries of Southeast Asia, penetrated into Sri Lanka, China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, Mongolia. The number of its adherents is estimated at about 500 million people.
In Buddhism, all the social and moral dogmas of Hinduism have been preserved, but the requirements of caste and asceticism have been weakened. Buddhism pays more attention to the current life.
25. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) - the great Austrian composer, instrumentalist and conductor, representative of the Viennese classical school, virtuoso violinist, harpsichordist, organist, conductor. He had a phenomenal ear for music, memory and the ability to improvise. As a composer who excelled in every genre, Mozart is widely regarded as one of the greatest songwriters in the history of classical music.
26. Avant-garde (fr. Avant-garde - "vanguard") - a set of experimental, emphasized unusual, search beginnings in the art of the XX century. The avant-garde areas of painting include fauvism, cubism, futurism, expressionism, abstractionism, surrealism, actionism, pop art, conceptual art.
27. The second feat of Hercules is the destruction of the Lernean hydra. This monster with the body of a snake and nine dragon heads crawled out of the swamp near the city of Lerna, killing people and destroying whole herds. Hercules found the hydra in the cave and fought with it. In place of each hydra's head cut off by the hero, two new ones grew, until Hercules' assistant, Iolaus, began to burn the hydra's neck with burning tree trunks. He also killed a giant cancer, which came out of the swamp to help the hydra. In the poisonous bile of the Lernaean hydra, Hercules soaked his arrows, making them deadly.
28. The sacred book of Christians - the Bible - consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Testament was borrowed from Judaism and was compiled over several centuries. He describes the events and facts that, in fact, led to the appearance of Jesus Christ. The texts of the New Testament tell about his life. They were combined into one book only at the beginning of the 2nd century. The authorship of parts of the Covenant is currently a controversial issue. Bible texts differ depending on the branches of Christianity, for example, the Protestant Bible contains several additional books of the Old Testament.
29. The statue of Zeus at Olympia is one of the seven wonders of the world. It was created for a temple in a large religious center of Ancient Greece - Olympia. The giant Zeus of the sculptor Phidias impressed the locals so much that they decided that God himself personally posed for the master. Creation time - 440-435 years. BC e. Location: Greece, the ancient city of Olympia on the west coast of the Peloponnese, approximately 300 km west of Athens.
30. Cubism (fr. Cube - "cube") is a modernist trend in painting at the beginning of the 20th century, which brought to the fore the formal task of constructing a three-dimensional form on a plane, minimizing the visual and cognitive functions of art. The name "Cubists" was first used in 1908 and 1909. by the French critic L. Vausel as a mocking nickname for a group of artists who depicted objects as a combination of geometric bodies or figures. The most famous artist in this direction is P. Picasso (1881-1973).
There is no creature on the planet more mysterious and unique than man. We are all impossibly different, but nevertheless, some common features that unite us can be distinguished. Let's talk about them.
1. Feeling constantly busy makes people feel useful to others and maintain a positive attitude. Keep this in mind the next time you feel like complaining to someone about a ton of current affairs.
2. Everyone knows about the seven deadly sins, which cannot be said about the six universal emotions that all people, without exception, experience. It is happiness, anger, sadness, fear, disgust, and surprise.
giphy.com3. It is not in vain that those with a sweet tooth are ready to sell their soul, kidney and even their beloved cat for a tile. And all because when it is used, dopamine enters the body, a substance that causes sensations similar to the feeling of falling in love. Feel free to seize grief with chocolate to compensate for the absence of a loved one nearby.
4. Tired people tend to be more honest. If you feel that your strength is at the limit, then it is better to tactfully keep your mouth shut, otherwise you never know what.
giphy.com 5. In an ordinary twenty-second hug, a special chemical enters the body, which helps to trust more the person you are hugging. It seems that there was another reason to hug more often.
6. "Oh my God, where is he, where is he, where!" - you probably exclaimed more than once in panic, not finding it in your usual place. And for good reason: scientists say that the emotions experienced when losing a gadget are similar to near-death experiences.
tumblr.com 7. Logic starts to work better when we think in a different language. Remember how the brain strains when trying to find the word in the vocabulary that most accurately characterizes what you are trying to say. Exactly.
21. People with low self-esteem are more likely to become bullies.
22. 80% of all our conversations are complaints about the hard life. And someone has 100%.
23. Volunteers, as well as people who volunteer to help others, are more satisfied with their lives.
24. Another fact about: you become much more creative when you feel that your strength is leaving you. Still, you need to come up with a worthy excuse for your idleness.
25. Memories are distorted over time. As sad as it is, each of us has at least one knowingly false memory.
1. Learn to formulate a thought
The ability to speak fluently will help convey your point of view to the interlocutor and even convey emotional experiences. Knowing the meaning of terms that are often used in your environment will make you feel more comfortable.
2. See the world from a different perspective
Basic rules of etiquette and NLP should be your fulcrum. NLP teaches you to look at the world through the eyes of the interlocutor in order to understand the motives of his behavior. With your respectful attitude towards people, you create a mirror reaction and even an unconscious desire to imitate you.
3. Be curious
The reluctance to read more than three sentences and the fear of long texts distorts the perception of information. Understand that the world is multifaceted. We can talk about the problem only after we read at least a couple of independent sources and draw our own conclusions.
4. Don't judge others
Relationships cannot be squeezed into clichéd situations. Instead of labeling yourself as “fool,” “greedy,” try to work on your relationship with cold blood. You will understand that for a job well done as a wife, you will definitely receive a long-awaited premium in the form of a fur coat.
5. Become a role model
An English proverb says: “Do not bring up children, they will still be like you. Educate yourself! " In any case, the child will absorb the habits and behavior of the parents. Improve yourself and you will see the best in your child.
6. Get inspired by the beautiful
Any manifestation of art develops imaginative thinking and memory. And of course, it teaches us beautiful things. An erudite person needs to understand the masterpieces of world literature, music, cinema and fine arts, the ideas of which remain relevant at the moment. Trust me, you will have a lot of fun!
7. Refresh your knowledge
The point of high school is to lay the foundation of knowledge and skills. Of course, not the entire program of modern education can be considered practical. But you simply must know the multiplication table, the history of your own country, and understand geography and grammar.
8. Make a Promise to Hippocrates
There are about ten accident situations. Having noticed the victim, you will definitely call an ambulance. But there are as many as 30 minutes before the arrival of the medical team. By mastering simple first aid skills, you can save lives not only for others, but also for yourself.
9. Learn to assert your rights
State laws and laws shape relationships in society. Therefore, you need to know them. Of course, there are specially trained people - lawyers - to deal with specific situations and issues. But every day (for example, in the status of a motorist) - every man for himself.
This list can be replenished endlessly, because every new day brings new "surprises" for which you need to be prepared. Do not stop there, study more useful literature, and you will understand that the world is beautiful the way it is. This is because it is you who see it as such - full of possibilities and miracles.
Text: Anna Kuznetsova
Incredible facts
Self-confidence is a vital key to a healthy and productive life.
To be confident, you need to master a basic set of skills, be a jack of all trades.
Contrary to what you may have learned in school, the jack of all trades is much more prepared to face the real challenges of life than the highly specialized person.
This list is not all-inclusive, however, there are 47 things everyone should be able to do.
Life skills
1. Make a fire.
Fire is warmth and light, one of the basic human needs for life. At some point, this knowledge can save you.
2. Work with a computer.
Fundamental knowledge of the computer is simply necessary in our time. Please help your neighbor if there is such a need.
3. Be able to use Google.
This search engine knows everything. If you have a problem finding something using Google, then the problem is not with him, but with you.
4. Be able to do artificial respiration and the Heimlich maneuver.
Perhaps one day your child, wife, husband or friend needs emergency help, and you will miss precious seconds.
The Heimlich maneuver is a method of removing foreign bodies from the upper respiratory tract, especially effective when they are completely blocked.
5. Be able to drive a car with a manual transmission.
The time will come when the lack of this skill will play a cruel joke on you.
6. Know the basics of cooking.
If you cannot cook a steak or scrambled eggs with your own hands, then rather learn how to do it, sooner or later, the lack of this skill will make itself felt.
7. Be able to speak in such a way as to attract the attention of people.
8. Do not get into a fist fight if you are not sure of your victory, not only physical.
9. Know how to bring bad news.
Someone has to do it. Unfortunately, someday, even if at least once in your life, you will be this person.
10. Know how to change the tires on the car.
11. Learn to be dignified in the interview.
Nervousness and sweat in three streams will definitely not bring you a good place to work.
Life Skills
12. Know how to manage your time.
Otherwise, you are wasting it. Sometimes this is good, but not on a consistent basis.
13. Learn speed reading.
Sometimes you urgently need to understand the main essence of the material, and you needed it five minutes ago.
14. Memorize people's names.
It is unlikely that you will like it if after you have introduced yourself, after a while they will turn to you: "Hey you!"
15. Change the living space.
While this is a bit more complicated than you might imagine, it is extremely beneficial for mental health.
16. Travel light.
Take only the essentials with you. It is both cheaper and easier.
17. Behave within the criminal code because prison is not fun at all.
18. Learn to give correct directions.
Nobody likes to go in circles.
19. Be able to provide first aid.
You don't have to be a doctor or a genius to heal a wound.
20. Learn to swim.
71 percent of the Earth's surface is covered with water, so being able to swim is not a bad idea.
21. Learn to park in parallel.
While parallel parking is a must-have skill for obtaining a driver's license, many drivers have no idea how to do it.
22. Know your alcohol limit.
Otherwise, your life will end like this person's.
Vital skills
23. Choose quality food.
Spoiled fruits and vegetables can tempt you with a low price, and in the end play a cruel joke on your health.
24. Know how to handle a hammer, ax and hacksaw.
Carpenters are not the only people who need these tools. Everyone should have a basic knowledge of basic hand tools.
25. Keep track of your budget.
Being in debt isn't fun. Controlling your expenses is key.
26. Speak at least two common languages.
About 300 million people in the world speak Russian (less than 5 percent), English is spoken by 25 percent of the population. It would be nice to be able to find a common language with English speakers and with the remaining 70 percent.
27. Push up and squat correctly.
The wrong technique for performing these basic exercises will not only do you nothing, but it will also make your body ache, and you will be wasting time.
28. Know how to compliment.
This is one of the biggest gifts you can give a person. And it's free.
29. Know how to negotiate.
30. Listen carefully to others.
The more you listen and the less you speak, the more you learn and the less you miss.
Vital skills and abilities
31. Know the basics of geography.
If you don't know anything about what is outside your comfort zone, most people will assume that you don't know anything at all.
32. Learn to paint.
The cost of painting a room is 90 percent of the labor costs. There is no point in overpaying for what you can do yourself.
33. Learn to make short, informative public speaking.
At the next meeting, when your boss asks you to share what you have been working on over the past month, deliver the information in a concise, clear, and informative way.
34. Learn to smile when you are photographed or filmed.
People who don't do this are associated with dull creatures.
35. Know how to flirt correctly.
There is a fine line between successful flirting and total failure. If you try too hard, you will lose. If you don't try too hard, you will be the loser.
36. Learn to extract useful and necessary information.
Useless notes are useless, and their absence dooms you to failure.
37. Be hospitable.
Otherwise, every time at a new place you will stay in hotels.
38. Learn to make a good first impression.
Aristotle once said: "He has already completed half the battle who started."
39. Know how to manage a map and a compass.
What happens if the GPS suddenly stops working and you find yourself in the middle of something you don't know?
40. Learn to sew a button on a shirt.
It's cheaper than buying a new one.
41. Learn to type quickly.
This skill will save you a total of several days in your lifetime.
42. Always protect personal information.
Identity theft can be costly. Don't be sloppy.
43. Master the basics of computer security.
You don't need to be a programmer to understand the basics of creating complex passwords and using firewalls. This will surely save you a lot of problems one day.
44. Learn to recognize lies.
People will lie to you. This is a sad truth.
45. Know how to politely end dates without making any promises.
There are no excuses for promises that you do not intend to keep. Just as there is no reason to make decisions about someone you barely know in the moment.
46. Learn to remove stubborn stains from clothing.
It's cheaper than buying a new one.
47. Keep your home clean.
Order in the house is organization in life.
With the evolution of generations, the human experience also “grows”. For example, the generation during the Great Depression is fundamentally different from the generation of the baby boom, which is certainly different from the current one. No offense, who is young and young today, and believes that he knows everything in the world. For each generation, everything is a little different. It depends on many factors, including gender and upbringing. When compiling this list, we took all this into account.
So what are these 40 things everyone who crosses their 40s should know?
In other words, many of the 40-year-olds know something about “how our world works”. If you are one of them, it will be very useful for you to read and understand that there is definitely something in this. So…
Don't treat the list like mathematical formulas. Something will fit, something the other way around ... But read it. Maybe it will do!
We wanted to amuse you, make you think, or maybe something else. You decide…
Anyway - here they are - these 40 things everyone who has already celebrated their 40th birthday should know:
1. Going out all weekend is definitely not a good idea.
2. There is nothing better than a good night's sleep.
3. Career is a whole bunch of rakes that you step on, step on and step on.
4. Remember that there are no irreplaceable people. And you are no exception.
5. Your social circle will be narrower and narrower. And this is even for the best.
6. You need to sleep either alone or with someone you really love. No options.
7. You already had at least one great love that you had to go through.
8. Have children or not? Now you know exactly the answer to this question.
9. Should I have a cat or a dog? Same. It's either yours or it isn't.
10. You have already experienced at least one tragedy. Unfortunately…
11. You are definitely a little weird. And you start to like it!
12. You fought like a lion to become better ... sacrificing money, time ... and - how?
13. Singing karaoke sober is the fastest way to trigger a panic attack.
14. And singing karaoke when you've had a few drinks is something. This is amazing. It's an explosion.
15. Fashion means no more to you than the color of your toilet lid.
16. You already know for sure (I hope) that we will all die, and therefore live to the fullest.
17. If you are not a "public person", then, most likely, you will never be like that again.
18. Fatty foods are still harmful. They puff up.
19. Exercise is a great antidote to anything.
20. Good reading is also a great antidote to anything.
21. The word "success" takes on a completely different meaning for you.
22. Intimacy (ie "sex life") is wonderful in moderation ... and when you are in love.
23. Young people are increasingly turning to you for advice - for good or bad.
24. Dancing is either amazing (if you can dance) or never, under any circumstances.
25.99% of what you were taught at the university has never been useful or useful to you.
26. Slippers, bathrobe, cardigan - you have something or all of this and / or you like crosswords.
27. Marijuana ... you either know what it is, or you never will.
28. You have your own internal "counter", and only you know the count ...
29. Talking to people on the phone takes no more than 1% of your time, the remaining 99 are colleagues and family.
30. If you are not invited somewhere - this is really a real luck.
31. Meetings and planning meetings at work invariably make you bored.
32. Playing computer games, other games ... it's so great. Or not…
33. If you don't have a plan, that's great. If there is, it's no less good.
34. When you receive a call, text or other types of communication - oh, there is nothing worse!
35. If you are learning something new, then only if you really want it with all your heart. Other motivations no longer exist.
36. Arguing with someone is: 1. A waste of time. 2. Deprived of all meaning. 3. Not my favorite show, that's for sure.
37. You still want to travel the world. It doesn't matter if you have a passport.
38. Is the booze and the party worth a heavy hangover? Definitely not.
39. The snooze button looks pretty nice Monday through Friday ... and maybe Saturday and Sunday as well.
40. Understand that 40 is not enough. And you still have a lot of gunpowder in the flasks. Be grateful to fate for this.
Forward! At 40, life has just begun!
