13 highly useful life hacks you can learn in a minute or less

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Everyone loves a good life hack, especially if it's super quick to pick up.

While one minute may not seem like a lot of time to master a useful skill, you'd be surprised just how much you can actually accomplish in 60 seconds or less. 

With the help of a Quora thread on the matter, we found several handy life skills you can pick up almost instantly.

Here are 13 of them:

Stop an impending sneeze.

User Alexander Freiherr offers a few methods for stopping a sneeze. "Squeeze your nose. Catch the part of your nose above the tip and stretch it out as if you are removing your nose out of your face. It should not be painful, but simply stretch out your cartilage, stopping the sneeze.

"Blow your nose. Use tissue and blow your nose when you feel a sneeze coming on. It should clear your sinuses of what caused the sneeze in the first place.

"Pinch your upper lip. Using your thumb and forefinger, pinch your upper lip lightly and press it upward toward your nostrils. Your thumb should head toward one nostril and your forefinger toward the other, bunching up your upper lip slightly.

"Use your tongue. Press your tongue behind your two front teeth, where the roof of your mouth meets the gum palate or alveolar ridge. Press hard with your most powerful muscles against your teeth until the tickling sensation dissipates."

Start everything with 'why?' in mind.

"Always! Not only when it comes to business plans," says user Charles Faraone. "Start with why for every decision impacting on your life, health, and happiness. Ask yourself why you're eating foods that might not be healthy for you. Why you're doing things the way you're doing them. Why you're avoiding doing what you know you should be doing. It's an amazingly simple approach with huge potential payoffs."

Save ink when printing.

When printing documents, user Veijay Jain suggests simply changing the text from black to gray. This will make little difference to the quality of what you're printing, and will not only reduce the amount of ink used, but it'll also increase the printing speed. "Needless to say that by using less ink, you will be slowing down the process filling the mother earth with used cartridges, helping our earth remain greener."