skills you wish you began developing years ago

photography
carpentry

People skills.

General fix-it skills around the house. I'm beyond useless.

Basically anything of actual use.

work ethic

organization and time management
sewing

carpentry also and being a mechanic and plumbing

Apps

Great-grandson of The Graduate:

"I just want to say one word to you...just one word: apps."

learning a foreign language beyond just the barest smattering

lucid dreaming

the skill of not having an addictive personality

speed reading
calligraphy
knowing the names of local plants and animals
feigning laughter/amusement (I rarely laugh naturally, so this would make social interaction/job interviews much less awkward)

sleeping

midi editing
soldering

Gardening

touch typing

gladhanding, various related fakery and grinning skills

making eye contact
reading musical notation
learning a second language
learning computer languages

time management
cooking

speedrunning

coding

time mgmt
C++
songwriting
wing chun kung fu

http://monakaraoui.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/9780061129735.jpg

Use of synths/electronic music equipment
guitar playing
keeping a well planned budget (tbh this is still a skill that completely evades me)

learning to drive

Cooking
making clothing
CAD
Photoshop
housecleaning
playing an instrument
time management
driving
plumbing
car maintenance
electronics
martial arts
note taking(might have a better degree & an M.A. now if I did)

yeah learning to drive is a good one (I did learn, hated it and never kept at it. Regretted this heavily when I moved house recently)

All of them. Basic social and organisational stuff probably kicks me in the ass most on a daily basis.

But I also wish I'd developed the skill of developing skills, as there are plenty of things I started to dabble with 20 years ago that I still have only the most cursory, surface knowledge of, and sometimes I think if I'd actually put any effort in over the past 20 years and maybe I could've turned out good at something, found a creative outlet, have something to talk to people about, be more employable now - or maybe not.

sleep budget & calorie mgmt

bike maintenance/repair
investing i.e. how do I shot retirement
learning a language other than english
how not to be an asshole

oh and sewing for sure
the joys of bbq/grilling

Right, learning to drive. I might have learned not to be terrified of it if I'd started earlier.

time management and personal organisation and diy like everyone else obvs
saying "no" to shit at work that doesn't help me or anyone else
calculus
full applications/ other programming basically stuff over and above snippets of scripting
piano- I am learning now and it is ace but I bought this piano 8 years ago!
a consistent set physical exercises performed correctly. also, good posture
cooking.

All of them. Basic social and organisational stuff probably kicks me in the ass most on a daily basis.

pretty much. Sometimes I feel like I never really attempted to learn anything difficult in my life and basically just stuck to the things I am naturally good at.

I feel like I am smart enough to learn plenty of skills, but I am lazy and generally have difficulty motivating myself to push through the more boring parts whenever learning anything new.

sewing

― flatizza (harbl)

You know how they say you never forget how to ride a bike? I had a bike as a kid, fell off it one day when I was 10 and never got on one again until six months ago, when I could not even get on the thing. I could barely lift my leg over the crossbar and then I felt so unable to balance and so scared of mashing my face into the road and my own smashed up glasses, etc. Felt so out of control while the person who lent me the bike was all "c'mon, this is a basic life skill, everyone can ride a bike, what is wrong with you, stop complaining you're not even trying" etc etc.

So I guess I wish I'd kept that up as a kid. And cooking. I can't drive either, which doesn't really bother me except that all three of these things are apparently basic life skills widely considered prerequisites for the right to exist as an adult human being. I'm not sure I can swim any more either since it's probably been 16 years since I last did so. Laugh away.

I would like some sort of certificate declaring me incompetent at all everyday tasks and then I could just stick it on my door and my CV and tell everyone to stop bothering me about why I can't do them.

Inspirational "never too late to learn" gif of mel brooks skateboarding over parkour Carl Reiner

Not driving doesn't really bother me, but some people are incredulous about it, like it's the most natural thing in the world to take responsibility for a steel cannister hurtling down the road and barely missing other cannisters. I have enough trouble getting down the stairs without stumbling.

I have no interest in learning how to drive (I don't like cars at all) or riding a bike. Both are totally incompatible with me.

I don't want to be good at making food but I should learn how to make more types of things.

The important things to me..

-Learning how to manage time and organise, focusing on priorities
-Learning to resist doing the easiest thing at any given moment
-Stop procrastinating and stop finding ways to distract myself
-Getting over OCD habit of compulsive checking
-Getting up out of bed in morning without feeling crap from getting up too soon or laying awake too long
(These first five are related)

-Brushing my teeth softer
-Good posture
-Good diet

learn how to get over the guilt of doing the easiest thing at every moment imo if its good enough for nature its good enough for lil ol me

Murder

!!!

jackhammering

puppetry

lute shit

learn how to get over the guilt of doing the easiest thing at every moment imo if its good enough for nature its good enough for lil ol me

― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 September 2014 17:14

If I did that I'd never finish a book, a drawing or a very unfamiliar piece of music. I'd never get over my OCD.

I'd just be sleeping, eating junk or on internet glancing across site updates, articles and forums.

However, I think it is a skill to recognise the things you should stop caring about. Quitting the right things.

like it's the most natural thing in the world to take responsibility for a steel cannister hurtling down the road and barely missing other cannisters

otm, ppl are monsters

driving a car
programming
computer science
electronics
musicianship
not getting stressed about my current laughable temp job

drumming
perseverance
plumbing/light home repair

also sewing

Banjo and time travel

Knowing when to shut up.

is the banjo the time machine?

never really felt the need to be a driver until we had a kid, but suddenly being able to transport small person without resorting to public transport seems appealing. having said that, i'm pretty sure i should not be in charge of a high-speed death machine, and adding a small child to the situation doesn't exactly make her safer.