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The Four Life Skills

The Four Life Skills

A Practical Path to Balancing Material Success and Spiritual Growth

Amit Agarwal
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If you observe, the education system is geared towards building skills rather than life skills. Schools create the foundation for college by offering streams such as humanities, science, and commerce. Innumerable courses at college and university teach law, business administration, engineering, finance, medicine, marketing, hospitality, and literary theory. Why is this so? This is because schools and colleges primarily cater to the job market, which will give you money and the ability to lead a good life. While specializing in skills is essential for employment, honing life skills is a much more critical aspect of personal development. So, now the question which arises is: which life skills will help us the most when it comes to marrying spirit and matter? There are four:

  • Sales
  • Personal Finance
  • Mindfulness
  • Nutrition

The four life skills encompass the four vital aspects of human experience, i.e. communication, mind, money, and food. Essentially, it introduces you to not only these four life skills but also the twenty-three habits that have shaped the author’s path. Just as a car needs four wheels to move forward, your life needs the coming together of these four skills—each one balancing spirit and matter.
The twenty-three habits you will learn in this book will help you grow to your fullest potential within each of the four life skills, marrying spirit and matter.

Imprint: Penguin Business

Published: Jan/2026

ISBN: 9780143474531

Length : 256 Pages

MRP : ₹399.00

The Four Life Skills

A Practical Path to Balancing Material Success and Spiritual Growth

Amit Agarwal

If you observe, the education system is geared towards building skills rather than life skills. Schools create the foundation for college by offering streams such as humanities, science, and commerce. Innumerable courses at college and university teach law, business administration, engineering, finance, medicine, marketing, hospitality, and literary theory. Why is this so? This is because schools and colleges primarily cater to the job market, which will give you money and the ability to lead a good life. While specializing in skills is essential for employment, honing life skills is a much more critical aspect of personal development. So, now the question which arises is: which life skills will help us the most when it comes to marrying spirit and matter? There are four:

  • Sales
  • Personal Finance
  • Mindfulness
  • Nutrition

The four life skills encompass the four vital aspects of human experience, i.e. communication, mind, money, and food. Essentially, it introduces you to not only these four life skills but also the twenty-three habits that have shaped the author’s path. Just as a car needs four wheels to move forward, your life needs the coming together of these four skills—each one balancing spirit and matter.
The twenty-three habits you will learn in this book will help you grow to your fullest potential within each of the four life skills, marrying spirit and matter.

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Paperback / Hardback

Amit Agarwal

Amit Agarwal is a Teacher at heart, a Student at mind and a Warrior in action.

Utilizing this Student-Teacher-Warrior mindset, Amit aims to harness and evangelize four life skills: sales, mindfulness, nutritional diet and personal finance. He believes that incremental progress in harnessing these life skills helps us balance material accomplishments and spiritual growth.

Amit’s two books, The Ultimate Sales Accelerator and Small Is Big, are steps in this journey of evangelizing the four life skills and balancing spirit and matter.

An IIT-IIM alumnus, Amit has coined the term Salespreneur® and created a new sales strategy: Use Case Selling®. He has professional selling experience in twenty-three countries across bootstrapped and Series A, B, C and D start-ups.

Amit grew up in Jhansi, a historic town in northern India. He currently lives in the suburbs of Bengaluru amidst beautiful farmlands with his wife, Ayesha, and sons, Tanish and Aarav.

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