10 signs that you are behind the times
A Life / / December 19, 2019
1. You do not know English
Foreign language opens up great opportunities, and the English in this issue - the leader. It helps not only when traveling abroad, but also in everyday household matters.
English will help you understand the instructions of the gadgets, find information not available in RuNet, and watch movies in the original, without losing the nuances of acting. Make purchases in foreign online stores, go to the free internships abroad, and read professional literature, without waiting for the translation. Even an article in the English-speaking segment of "Wikipedia" is often better and link to more authoritative sources than the Russian-speaking.
Not knowing the English language, you will inevitably lags behind the more hard-working citizens in this matter.
2. You do not watch the finances
Even with a philosophical attitude to money will not be denied that they give a sense of security and the ability to look to the future. And financial literacy - an essential condition for the material well-being.
If you are not familiar with the new fraud schemes in theory, the risk to encounter them in practice. Unwillingness to understand how the tax system, results in the inability to obtain tax deductions. And without a good orientation to the financial processes difficult to preserve and multiply money.
3. You ignore new technologies
It's one thing when you meet with all the technological advances and decided to read a paper book you nicer than to take text from electronic devices. It's quite another if you just do not want to understand that the developers of the new offer.
Technology designed to make life easier.
You need to buy a new generation of the device immediately after the release. But if you stand in line with the bank passbook to pay utility bills, and not doing it for three seconds through the site of the house, something went wrong in your life.
4. You use simple passwords
When personal e-mail was used primarily for sending funny pictures and registration on questionable forums, hacking accounts was sad but insignificant event. Now the value of the data has increased many times, and this is unacceptable not understand.
If your password - still "password" or qwerty, and it does not contain capital letters and numbers, you endanger not only their own safety. Attackers can get through correspondence to confidential data or your buddies to get them involved in a fraudulent scheme on your behalf.
5. You believe everything that is said in the news
A good journalist should verify the information before publication in several sources. On the same way you need to go through and the reader. To look at the situation from different angles, will have to select several media with different points of view. And it would be good to read more, and foreign publications for international events.
The position, as you read only the media that are close to you in spirit, comfortable, but a little "ostrich". So you can not for a long time to notice something that the others have long been known. The consequences can be different: in one case, you simply will not be able to maintain a conversation, the other - run into real problems. For example, you do not have time to issue the relevant documents.
6. You do not make new friends
Many actively make friends at school, university and these are limited. But even in the proverb and say that one is better than two new ones, think about what new information can exchange people who know each other 20 years.
Meet new people - new knowledge and capabilities.
With age, you can expand the geography of contacts and find friends interest, and not just the geographical proximity as it was ten years old. Communicating only with old friends, you voluntarily narrow down the data stream is delivered to you, that cast you to step back from the place where you could be, if not for the missed opportunities.
7. You do not update the data in the head
Some people, once having acquired the information, translate it for years and not worry about truthfulness. However, much of the data is transformed, acquire new studies or hopelessly out of date.
The most striking example of this - parenting, where the age of grandparents is not to say that they know better, because "you have something they once grew." For example, if twenty years ago belt was considered almost the only way to transmit information from generation to generation, and now proven ineffectiveness physical punishment.
Of course, to update all the knowledge will not work. But to keep pace with the times, we must at least be interested in what is happening around.
8. You do not follow health
Healthy lifestyle - a very useful trend that is not limited to photographs smoothies in Instagram. Proper nutrition, exercise, regular health examinations, routine dental checkups, the use of sunscreen will help to maintain a high pace of life. Disease, on the contrary, do not just make you keep up with life, but they can also be removed from the race.
9. You are too dependent on other people's opinions
When you want to get married, because it is time, or change the favorite a fun job seriously, because there is no more strength to listen to stories about my mother's friend's son, take a look at the calendar. If the first two numbers on it is still "20", then it is time to learn to live with his mind.
All that you should or should not do, the law regulates. The rest of you are free to do as you want. True, and the responsibility will have to take on. Do not depend on the opinion of others still uneasy. But if you want to get the best out of life, and not trail closing, will have to take the risk.
10. You are living past
If you are prone to the wording "The best time in a person's life - it is the students' and other manifestations of nostalgia, you still have one foot there.
To be happy here and now - the art and work. To do this, you need to stop idealizing the events of the past and to face the present.
If something interferes enjoy, will have to change. Of course, it is not so simple as to reminisce, but effective.
Happy past should nurture the same future.
What would you add to this list?
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