Schools need to teach problem solving — not just "solve for x" in math, but real problem solving: Here's something that doesn't work, what do you do?

I would add economics into there as well. The teach a lot of history and social sciences but not all schools teach economics. Its important fundamental analysis that is probably important for the politically engaged but also assists in the money management.

Target has a person at every store that does "revisions". This basically means that they spend their day changing the locations of products so that you have to walk around looking for them. For example, a couple weeks ago they moved the powdered coffee creamer from the coffee aisle to the hot chocolate aisle. It's…

The funny thing is that most everyone thinks these tactics don't work on *them.* (see the comments...) I'm not saying that some of those folks aren't right, yet businesses and marketers spend billions yearly on researching these and other techniques, still to the benefit of their bottom line. So, clearly, lots of…

Big headphones on, head down (hat optional but good), shopping list (organised into like objects) and drinking a strong coffee just before setting off. Only way to do shopping and not end up with a bunch of stuff you really didn't need. Fact.

and when the waiter says "sorry, we only have pepsi. is that ok?" you and 99% of other people are gonna say yes