Meta Skills: The Art of Loving Good Health

A meta skill is a higher order skill that enables you to adapt and learn such that you can develop a host of other capacities.

So how can you use this concept to build good health?

Let us divide the human population into cohorts. Children, young adults, middle ages and old age.

You will find a variation in the understanding of health as a meta skill.

The meta skill in this case being the need to understand and focus on what it means to be healthy and the habits to get there.

Take my case. Since my teens, well into middle age, I had no clue about health, sleep, exercise, breathing, nutrition or, frankly, anything else.

Since I lacked the meta skill, I lacked the habits. It was only a crisis that led me to discover the need.

But if you find yourself at a similar moment there will be a catch. What advice do you get and what choices do you make.

Traditionally, this moment in the customer journey was sewn up by industry.

They knew when it would come, they knew what you would think and they had the playbook of how to reel you in settled.

But things started changing.

Cracks developed as more and more people realized that they were trading one problem for another. Knee pain for multiple knee surgeries, for example, nothing close to what they had signed up for.

So what should you do?

Regardless of age, be clear that this is the greatest meta skill you can develop. You will never meet anyone who would trade good health for anything else. Don’t let social media fool you into believing otherwise.

Start your children young. Tell the elderly in your family that it is never too late. Be objective. Have clear metrics that tell you whether you are moving in the right direction. Measure and track your progress.

The only assets you possess are your mind, your body and your time.

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