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Ready for Anything

What to know before the thing happens, not after.

15 cards

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The 72-Hour Kit

Three days of self-reliance

A prepared bag holding three days of essentials for an emergency.

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The Heimlich Manoeuvre

The thrust that clears the airway

Abdominal thrusts used to clear an object blocking someone's airway.

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Fire Safety

Stop, drop, and the reason it works

Knowing what fire does, and what to do in the first ten seconds.

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The OODA Loop

The decision cycle that wins

A four-step cycle for making decisions quickly under pressure.

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The Bystander Effect

Why nobody helps, and how to break it

The tendency of a crowd to leave the helping to somebody else.

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Digital Etiquette

The new set of manners

The unwritten manners that apply to messages, posts, and calls.

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The Rule of Three

The presenter's oldest tool

The pattern that three items make and two items do not.

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Lateral Thinking

The problem is the frame

Solving a problem by questioning the rules nobody stated.

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The Scientific Method

The loop that built the modern world

A repeating loop of question, guess, test, and honest result.

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Healthy Boundaries

The line that protects both sides

A limit a person sets on what others may ask of them.

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Career Diversity

Most jobs are invisible from school

The range of work that exists, most of which nobody mentions.

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Technology Ethics

Should we, because we can?

Asking whether something should be built, not only whether it can be.

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The Rule of Threes (Survival)

Four numbers between you and an emergency

Four survival limits that set the order of what to fix first.

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Situational Awareness

The skill no one teaches and everyone needs

Noticing what is around before anything needs noticing.

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Curiosity

The skill behind every card in this set

The urge to find out, and the willingness to admit not knowing.

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