How to get street smart?

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1. Attend Street Academy and get your street diploma.

2. Live in the streets

3. I recommend you speak with Prison Mike

4. Honestly, it is a lot of painful experiences. That’s how you get street smart. It’s not something you’re taught. It’s just life smacking you in the face over and over again until you figure out how to not get smacked again. It’s the difference between knowing that drugs destroy lives and seeing someone so desperate for a fix that they neglect to eat just to pay for it all.

5. Hard situational experience and repetitively doing the dangerous or illegal shit that goes on in that life and navigating the outcomes with measured relative silence while still learning

6. Experience

7. Experience a lot of stuff in a relatively short amount of time and that’s it.

8. Some of my street smarts I got from my dad, who worked in a prison and he told me about all kinds of people, situations, and on occasion how to navigate certain things. Some came from just meeting all kinds of people and talking to them about their experiences. Then there’s having experiences yourself. I’m not certain what a good source would be for education as far as books/talks, but I would be surprised if there was nothing out there.

9. It depends on what you mean by “street smart”. Can you elaborate?

   Do you mean “survive outdoors in a tough neighborhood”? Give people lots of space, courtesy, and respect. Observe everything you can without being a creep about it. Most people learn from thier own mistakes, but you can learn faster (and avoid injury and/or death) by keeping your eyes and ears open and learning from other peoples mistakes instead. Im no expert in this area, but I recommend valuing your survival and safety above all else as a mindset as you figure it out.

   Do you mean “level up your common sense”? Probably the same advice but lower stakes. Pay attention to your surroundings. Be introspective and aware of your own thoughts, then be critical about them. Don’t take your own assumptions at face value. If you think you know something, ask yourself “how do I know this for a fact?”

10. Learn from people who live in those environments, it’s crazy what people know. I got told once that if your in an area where gangs or dangerous people are, that you should look at someone once, and don’t give someone a reason to give you trouble

11. Observe your surroundings in a big city environment that would probably make you feel uncomfortable.

12. You kinda can’t later in life. At least not easily. Street smarts come from spending years of your life living in dangerous places where you literally *had to* learn street smarts on-the-fly, through hard experiences, to survive.

    I have a white liberal neighbour who I regularly see walking home late at night staring at his phone, while wearing huge over-the-ear headphones and it immediately tells me that he’s felt safe for his entire life.

    So if you have no street smarts, you’ve probably had a good life and I hope you never really have to need them.

13. Being street smart isn’t necessarily living on the streets. The best answer is overcoming tough life situations. How you adapt and keep pushing all while still maintaining your sanity and smarts for the sake of wanting to move forward.

14. To become street smart you need to go onto the streets and experience life.

15. Why do you want to be “steet smart”? Get into a company or start a business. Become business smart!

16. You learn quick the most important rule to living in the streets is to MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!!!!
    Someone getting mugged keep walking he may deserve it. Store getting jacked keep walking and call the police privately. A woman being harassed or abused grab your guns boys we stepping in but usually in this situation the community will have your back.

    The real name of the game is to mitigate risk while increasing opportunities with the skill set you have.