There’s a story about a man (Hennig Brand) who figured since pee was yellow, and gold was yellow, maybe if you boil urine down enough you can get the ‘gold’ out of it and make lots of stacks of cash.

Unfortunately this didn’t work, but it did yield a process to create phosphorous which ended up being a valuable chemical process, of which he sold to other alchemists at the time (Who in turn tried to figure out how to turn the new found phosphorous to gold).

As I recall, Will Wright’s inspiration for the Sims was watching his daughter play with dolls in a dollhouse.

When viewed through that lens, yeah I can see how that formula works.

Patience.

I’ve taken up several hobbies (game dev, gardening, woodworking, etc) where results aren’t always well seen until weeks, months or even years after starting a project.

Everyone seems too interested in getting results fast and now, and the world seems all too keen to sell you something to try and make that happen.

I don’t keep checking to see if I’m being followed, but assessing people nearby seems to be practical awareness.

Its probably some baked in survival skills.