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Originally Posted by DJ FC
This is the year of self-improvement for Mr DJ FC. Getting into shape is always on the list and something I never seem to accomplish. It's something I have every intention of doing soon, but something I consider separate from my recent realization that I had spent too much time not aquiring new skills.
Maybe it's the "quarter life crisis," but about a year ago it hit me that since leaving college I'm not learning new things any more. This troubled me quite a bit as there is a list a mile long of things I want to learn to do well before I die. The first three on my list:
Drive a manual transmission
Speak a foreign language
Play golf
Pretty much everybody I know can do all 3 of these but I had none of them. Knocked out the first one pretty easily while getting my British driving license. As for the next two, I'm currently taking a 2 hour French class once a week and weekly golf lessons as well. I can now ask how you're doing in French while swinging a 7 iron. I will be golfing much before I will be speaking French fluently. I feel I should be competent on the golf course by the end of summer whereas French may take me a few years.
What's next on the list:
Scuba Diving
Sailing
Both of these can be done in London and I've found weekend classes for both.
Tell me, friends, of the skill sets you want to aquire and inspire me to aquire more.
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You drove my car sometime in highschool, which is a stick, you just did it really, really poorly.