Will, I love working on big projects with groups of people, and about 15 years ago, I mentored my first millenials (just out of college, and so eager). I rapidly realized that they did not have a systematic way of collecting, parsing, and analyzing — so I taught them. They I realized that I had been doing that very same thing for my peers for years. I don’t think my schooling taught it to me — I think I was fortunate enough to learn it from my parents, who revered critical thinking skills and understood subjective/objective. My folks certainly made sure we were drilled in it.

I would ask you to consider consider adding into Elephant Number 4 some version of “what it’s like to be a human being.”

As an adult, until I was 40 and took a transformational learning course, I did not understand what conflict I had between my emotional and logical processing.

Over the last ten years, I have learned to balance intuition with critical thinking. I have learned that intellect and emotion are both active and present in every moment. And that suppression of emotion will always come out in detrimental ways — maybe weeks, months, or years later.

I really, really wish there had been training classes on “being a human being” when I was in junior high and high school.