• Swim 400 yards easily
• Do dishes in a strange house, and your own
• Cook a simple meal
• See work to be done and do it
• Care for tools and always put them away after use
• Splice or put a fixture on an electric cord
• Know basic information about five careers that suit you
• Volunteer to work for a month in each of those fields
• Clean a paintbrush after use
• Change a diaper, and a tire
• Listen to an adult talk with interest and empathy
• Take initiative and responsibility for school work and home chores
• Dance with any age
• Clean a fish and dress a chicken
• Drive a car with skill and sanity
• Know and take responsibility for sexual conception and protection when needed
• Know the basic five of first aid: restore breathing and heartbeat, control bleeding, dilute poisons, immobilize fractures, treat for shock
• Write a business letter
• Spend the family income for all bills and necessities for two months
• Know basic auto mechanics and simple repair
• Find your way across a strange city using public transportation
• Be happy and comfortable alone for ten days, ten miles from the nearest other person
• Save someone drowning using available equipment
• Find a paying job and hold it for a month
• Read at a tenth grade level
• Read a topographic map and a chart
• Know the local drug scene for yourself
• Handle a boat safely and competently (canoe, kayak, skiff, sailboat)
• Operate a sewing machine and mend your own clothes
• Operate a computer as needed
• Do your own laundry

What would you add to this list? What would you strike out?

Any here you feel are un-reasonable?

Patagonia. “Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now: The Life of Audrey Sutherland.” Patagonia. Accessed June 2, 2024. https://www.patagonia.com/stories/go-simple-go-solo-go-now-the-life-of-audrey-sutherland/story-17793.html.