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This Researcher Claims Children Need Only One Skill To Be Successful In Life

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

This researcher has studied over 200 kids and claims if you teach your child 'just one skill' in life, make it THIS.

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0:00.0

Here, Bert Show.

0:01.5

Sitting in my house a few weeks ago, and I'm working on the show, and my garage door goes up.

0:07.9

So I just figure it's Amanda showing up.

0:10.2

She's got access to my house, obviously, my girlfriend.

0:12.7

And there's nobody there.

0:14.1

Garage door goes up by itself.

0:16.4

And I'm like, that's weird.

0:17.8

I just close it, right?

0:19.3

A couple of days later, same thing happens. And recently,'ve been coming to work and when I come home, the garage door is open again. Like it's happening over and over and over again. So somebody, I'm guessing, in the neighborhood has just bought a brand new garage door opener and it's on my frequency. Can that happen? It's possible? It absolutely happens.

0:38.3

And it has been happening. I had to bring a handyman over now twice to change the frequency because it's just going up and down by itself. How savvy are your girlfriend and or son with like iPhones? Not at all. Okay. Remind them. Why do you think they were playing a joke on me or something? Not a joke, but you can set up automations that any time you get within the radius of your house, your phone will automatically open your garage door and knowing your history and proclivity for, you know, ruining the top of your car by running into it. I thought maybe one of them did just solid. Yeah, no, no, that isn't happening. So for the second time, Handyman come out there yesterday and changed the frequency of my garage door. I thought I had a ghost and moved. That's what I thought initially. I'm like, nah, this is crazy, right? All right, Kristen, so this is important here. If you teach your child just one skill in life, somebody is suggesting this is it. Yeah, I saw this headline, and as a parent, I obviously clicked on it.

1:29.7

And the headline says, I've studied over 200 kids.

1:32.9

If you teach your child, just one skill in life, make it this.

1:38.0

It's non-negotiable for me.

1:39.8

So this comes from CNBC.

1:41.7

Her name is Ream Routa, and she wrote the article.

1:45.0

And she goes, there's one skill that quietly shapes whether they'll be successful in life.

1:51.6

Self-connection.

1:53.4

Self-connection.

1:54.7

Self-connection.

1:55.8

Or the ability to tune into one's own emotions, needs, and inner voice.

2:04.2

So emotional intelligence, self-connection.

2:10.3

She says, when kids feel safe and who they are, they carry that sense of worth into every relationship, challenge, and decision. When they don't, it can unravel their self-esteem from the

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