Life is about developing yourself, which includes several skills. Here is a list of which skills you have to learn, and why!
- Speedreading. You don’t have time to read every book that is ever written, you don’t have time to read even a fraction of all the written books. But if you are able to speed read, you can read a lot more books, which means more knowledge and satisfaction!
- Speaking another language. You only speak English? Of course, almost everyone speaks English, but the non-American/English people speak another language besides that. I speak Dutch and English, perhaps you should learn another language too, because it’s handy and because it’s cool!
- Walking on your hands. I didn’t come up with this one, a friend of mine said it. ‘So if I lose my legs, I’ll still be able to do something.’ Does that need more explanation?
- How to tie your shoelace FAST. Ah, how long takes it to tie your shoelaces? 7 sec each, every day twice? That is 28 seconds a day. That is 10220 seconds in a year, 204400 seconds in 20 year. So you spend 3407 minutes in 20 year with tying your shoelaces, that should go faster right? I mean, that is 60 hours, that is like reading 3 books. Here is how to tie your shoelaces, fast: How to tie your shoelaces fast. Now tying your shoelaces takes only 4 seconds each. That is only 32 hours in 20 year! So you just made 28 hours in 20 year, that is almost a complete day, you’re welcome!
Those are my four for now, I will come with an update sometime, anyone have any skills I should add to this list? Post it in the comments!
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I love the point about tying shoelaces fast
I wouldn’t have guessed it takes that much out of your life! :O
And, also, speaking another language is critical, especially now that it’s more common to fly abroad etc.
haha. really liked your off the wall take on this.
gotta love the “82 sexy ways to improve some random thing” style posts, so really laughed when you brought up tying shoelaces fast as one of 4 essential skills :p
i think that one essential skill, on a serious note, is learning to learn. all else follows from that.
thanks for making me laugh
keep well bro
alex – unleash reality
Hey Alex,
Good to hear that I made you laugh, that was the main reason for this post, make a smile!
Learning to learn is indeed one of the best skills you learn in life. And it’s the most paradoxical I think, because you learn to learn better during your life, but learning is easier when you are very young. It’s so strange, the human being keeps fascanating me!
The best,
Stefan
Not often I say this, but that video was pure awesomeness (Barney-style). It’s rarely I untie my shoe laces, but if it need to tie them again I will most certainly use this method.
Yes, a foreign language is special important for a social man.
Thanks!
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