“Learn How To Swim”: People Say To Dedicate 10 Hours To These 46 Skills That Pay Off Big-Time

Small talk. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea but you never know who you’ll meet or what they know. When I first moved overseas i had a small talk w some dude and he told me all the roads to avoid at night, how to use contactless payments, bus routes and which shop has the cheapest and best kebabs.

Zipper repair:
Most tents and sleeping bags at festivals only are discarded because of slightly buggy zips.

If you run a business I’d say calling people back.

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Learning to speak without saying um, uh and so on. It will make you sound way more confident and well spoken, even if the content of what you're saying has not improved.

Basic hygiene and fashion

Maybe sounds unnecessary (primarily the fashion part) but looking nice can help out a lot in surprising ways. It doesn't have to be anything crazy either, but learning basic fashion and color matching can help you look more appealing with near any level of budget. Even if it's just subconscious, nice matching colors and good hygiene helps how others see you. Plus the mental boost of looking nice and feeling clean is good.

Hygiene because being clean helps cover some mental and physical health issues before they even come up (I.E. healthy body and better self esteem).

Biking.

How to lift heavy s**t safely. Don't lift with your back! Use your arms and legs, they're stronger, a lot less susceptible to injury, and easier to fix.

Tying a tie

Learning the NATO alphabet.

Bodyweight Exercises and Stretching

If able, with 30 minutes every other day at least, a consistent bodyweight workout will make later life much easier, promote better body health habits all around, and it’s free fitness.

To play chess, dominoes or mahjong, and a few card games like poker, rummy, bridge, etc.

You won’t play very well, but you can then join a game without being totally lost. There are a lot of games people never play just because they’ve never played them.

Manual transmission (if you want to drive in europe).

Filing your taxes.

For western folks, learning to use chopsticks well.

How to floss.

Learning how to properly filet a chicken/fish. It takes a few attempts to "nail" it, but once you learn the trick, and it really takes less than 10 hours, it becomes a massive money saver in the long run when preparing food at home.

Chicken especially, as most of the cost revolving around it has to do with the "service" of cutting and filleting. Once you learn that yourself, you spare a hefty amount of money, and get yourself a nice amount of food for a lot more days than just buying pre-cut stuff.

Also, not that time consuming. Takes about 10 mins for chicken, even less so for a fish.

Knitting. Not only do you get to make your own clothing and accessories, it’s a de-stressor as well!

10 sec version of your question.

Ctrl+backspace deletes the entire previous word.
Percentages are reversible, 8% of 25 is the same as 25% of 8, but one is much easier.

Use your mouse left handed. It takes maybe 30 minutes and will save you from wrist pain for your entire life if you use the computer a lot.

Learning the alphabet backwards. Helps when sorting things, and also in sobriety tests.