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10 basic human skills, the younger generation just isn't learning.

There are many reasons to be thankful for the cushy existence modernity affords us.

War and other extenuating circumstances aside, you probably don't fear for your life on a daily

basis. You have clean water to drink. Food is widely available and it's affordable. You survived

infancy, childhood, and adolescence, which is quite special on a historical scale. But there are downsides. Food has gone industrial.

We increasingly live our lives in the digital realm and ignore the physical. Perhaps the most

recent change has been the physical neutering of our kids. This has happened more broadly across all

ages, as countries shift away from manual labor toward more of an information economy.

But it's become incredibly pronounced in the generation coming up.

At least when I grew up, kids still wandered around the streets in search of adventure, testing themselves out physically,

undergoing mental and physical challenges, breaking bones and straining muscles, and learning

about movement from the best teacher of all, hands-on experience. Now, the lucky ones, will get

gymnastics or martial arts or dance training a couple days a week,

but most languish indoors prevented from the kind of free-form exploratory play

human children have enjoyed for thousands of generations.

What are they losing?

What physical skills, basic human abilities, will they lack?

Number one, throwing.

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