{"id":53461,"date":"2016-04-02T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=53461"},"modified":"2016-04-02T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T20:46:00","slug":"skills-for-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/04\/02\/skills-for-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Skills for Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Silva<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Many ethnic groups around the world have been wiped out by technically superior groups as a result of lack of innovation and failure to adapt and progress and failure to recognise external threats. I have given below some food for thought, regarding arresting the decline.<\/p>\n

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  1. Understand the nature of the world and Understand laws of nature, in particular the\u00a0\u00a0law of nature which states Survival of the fittest and law of natural selection.<\/li>\n
  2. Understand laws of economics.<\/li>\n
  3. Develop commercial and trading\u00a0\u00a0skills.<\/li>\n
  4. Develop skills needed to survive in the world.<\/li>\n
  5. Develop critical thinking skills.Develop a mindset to survive and win, as opposed to seeking extinction. , be prepared to face suffering in order to make progress.<\/li>\n
  6. Develop problem solving, communication and information seeking skills.<\/li>\n
  7. Develop time management skills.<\/li>\n
  8. Develop high productivity and high efficiency.<\/li>\n
  9. Prepared to work hard and engage in life long learning and engage in up skilling.<\/li>\n
  10. \u00a0Be innovative and find smart solutions to problems.<\/li>\n
  11. Recognise external threats and develop strategies and mechanisms to deal with external threats. An example of an external threat is CEPA\u00a0\u00a0and ECTA. Do the Sinhalese have an organisation or even a web site to look after their interests ?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Ben Silva Many ethnic groups around the world have been wiped out by technically superior groups as a result of lack of innovation and failure to adapt and progress and failure to recognise external threats. I have given below some food for thought, regarding arresting the decline. Understand the nature of the world and Understand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ben-silva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}