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10 Skills That Once Mattered Before 40 but Are Rarely Useful Today

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10 Skills That Once Mattered Before 40 but Are Rarely Useful Today

People who are 40 years and older were groomed to excel at physical solutions that used to drive the world before apps and smartphones, including paper maps, VCR wars. These physical and digital superpowers developed patience and wit, having constructed a bridge between the physical and electronic worlds as the final bridge generation prior to the screen native comforts of Gen Z. By 2026, technology has made them irrelevant, liberating brains to more productive things, but arousing retroactive memories of physical wins. We have substituted manual mouse balls with laser accuracy and checkbooks with applications, and ditched dexterity with taps. Ten classics taking dust here, Daily rituals turned to party tricks.

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