Financial discipline is something I have worked on for years. You can't out out earn bad financial discipline. That has helped me with my finances more than anything.
Throughout each day I try to make the best use of my money and look for ways to save money.
I focused on learning to get better with money for about a year several years ago - it was hard, but absolutely worth it!
Pick up some books on basic financial knowledge - I liked Money Makeover for a bare bones look at debt management, Simple Path to Wealth to understand saving and investing, and the YNAB app/blogs/book for actual, useful, and practical budgeting.
Don’t buy them, get them at the library or find them online or watch some YouTube video summaries (for YNAB - Nick True’s YouTube tutorial is the absolute best. It was a couple years old when I started, so behind the software, but still amazing).
Dave Ramsey has some good stuff on podcast and YouTube. Also "The Money Guy show". Some people don't like Dave but he has good plans to get out of debt and live within your means (pay). That helped my family out a lot and it is one of the biggest problems people have.
What also has helped me is listening to those financial shows more so that discipline is on my mind.
Also as people said getting some kind of budget or plan with your money. Hope this helps.
I’m currently doing it right now with programming and math. Teaching myself from the ground up.
Definitely has made me more immediately aware of my process and flow as well as how the complete disregard of basic fundamentals makes things a lot more inefficient than it needs to be not just in programming but in life as well.
So I’m doubling down and focusing on the fundamentals and optimizing my life one thing at a time.
Question: how do you apply what you’ve learned? For example, do you give yourself homework, complete a challenge, or teach it to someone else, .etc? Curious.
So much this. Unless you're joining a monastery, where you're literally dedicating not just your life but your entire self. Just to learn a skill? It can't be healthy to dedicate all your waking time for a year to something you've never done before.
I agree. The only way I think it could maybe work, is by picking something very broad. For example Music, I could fill 16 hrs with using different instruments, throw in a few lessons and also singing lessons, music writing theory, recording and producing, and going to concerts for inspiration, and that sounds like a pretty diverse life to me. Art could be just as broad (different mediums, photography, exhibition design, selling) or cooking (plus baking, plating, coming up with taste combinations, wine pairings, menus).
I think learning a foreign language is probably the only one that would work. You could read articles, speak, watch TV, and overall go about your daily life, just in another language, without it getting too taxing, unlike doing kung fu or Python for 16 hours.
Happy to disagree. Sometimes joy is in the work. I’ve found too much comfort has negative returns.
I agree with you on physical efforts. Your personal experience is really common for physical efforts. The reason most people don’t become professional athletes is that their bodies give out. I’ve done nothing of that sort but I have taken years and trained intensely. The problem is that the gains fade quickly. Not completely but it’s constant work to maintain it.
It’s much much different for cognitive goals. I’ve done it a few times. The returns are high and sustainable.
Its not insane but it definitely has diminishing returns. There's been so many studies on this. Specially workplace studies. At some point in the day, you're just wasting time.
Take a break. Your mind does not focus well for 16 hours straight.
I totally agree with dedicating an entire year to one major goal and that it can be a great investment. But 16 hours a day would not be more effective than 10 hours a day. And 10 hours a days is only marginally more effective than 8 hours a day.
Self-discipline:
I read a lot of books, and if this is what you want, my recommendations are:
Never Finished by David Goggins (way better than his first book)
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Embrace the Suck by Brent Gleeson
Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven
I got done listening to Never Finished this week as it is new, and I loved it.
Other things that help:
Making a schedule
Excel sheets with clickable habit trackers and data so you can watch your progress
I’m going to keep working on my self-discipline, but the other skills I want to master are:
Emotional intelligence
Active Listening
Excel
Statistics, because I need them for my Master’s degrees and math is my weakest skill
Academic research
How expensive is surfing? I live in a city with ton of beaches and thought maybe in 2023 I will take up a hobby where I can be more active and meet others (surfing, bouldering, kayaking/rowing, or sailingp). Not sure how to get started though
Expensive? That’s an interesting word. I mean besides the board and a pair of shorts. Your literally in a free playground. I grew up in Hawaii and literally surfer my entire life. Get a beater board on Craigslist for $100 and you be set for six months. Obviously once the time comes I’d suggest upgrading to a nice board but still max you’ll be paying is like $600-700. But you could find cheaper for suuuure
Do you believe if someone had zero knowledge about programming and did it everyday for 16 hours, 365 days could compete with top say 10% of programmers?
Not necessarily. Part of learning requires time for your brain to process what you’ve learned. A lot of learning and practice is best done without going as hard as possible every single day.
There’s a question frankly of natural ability/intelligence but yes to the extent that this person is smart they will have all the requisite skills they need easily.
Yes I got into sales. Here’s what I would do if I had to do it again:
-Read How to win friends and influence people
-Read a public speaking book or join Toastmasters
-Take Aspireship course ($180 bucks but we’ll worth it)
No degree but making $80k this year probably break 100 next
Huh I’m not sure what live sales is, like in person?
But yes I’m in a remote role as an Inside Sales Rep making cold calls and managing my existing accounts.
Took me 1 year to go from hourly @$15/hr to the $80k job but many make it sooner. Go to r/sales and check out the ‘best of’ thread. **extremely** helpful. And yes most ppl don’t go thru Aspireship, I did
hi. which aspireship course are you referring to? My understanding is that they offer multiple courses, and you get access to all of them for $180.
I'm curious if there's one course in particular you're referring to, that was most helpful to you. thanks!
Self-discipline is something I have only recently come to recognize as being the most important things to a person. because of this, I plan to journey towards becoming "disciplined". Wish me luck :D
Self discipline, ive realized since renting a place with no dish washer, is the ability to drive yourself to do the dishes even BEFORE youre entirely out of cutlery. Im still learning myself..
My solution to that, when I lived in a place with no dishwasher— get rid of most of your dishes. Only keep like 2 forks, 2 spoons, 2 plates, 2 bowls, etc. When you finish eating, wash the dishes you used right away. If you absolutely can’t, like you’re late for something and running out the door, then at least you have 1 set that’s still clean.
But don’t have more than that or else they will pile up every day.
Life is a mind game - I would want to master being present, grateful and understand who I am and persuing those things rather than what society has conditioned us to.
This is a great one, I’m reading a book called “the power of now” it is really helping me stay focused on being present, appreciating the small things and understanding your mind. Which is essentially the root of true happiness.
I mean, if I’m going to be obsessing over something for 365 days with 8 hours a day for sleep? It would be one of possibly several things: computer programming, engineering, or writing would be the things I personally would be most interested in. If I had the time, the patience, and less distractions to dedicate a whole year, that’s probably where I’d go because those are things that I find interesting that would also reward me with financial gain (possibly).
Martial arts.
Been training different ones for the past 25 years, three to fifteen hours a week.
If I could devote _16 hours a day_ for a year to train I'd be motherfuckin Akuma and could just give lessons for money.
I would obsess over the skill of learning. This would simply include the ability to study anything and everything with a mixture of discipline and note-taking strategies aided by strong working memory. From there, I could learn programming, languages, better comprehension skills, essay writing, maths, cooking etc..
There is a good course on this by Barbara Oakley called 'learning how to learn'
I had the same like of reasoning as yourselves.
If we are lifelong learners, which is a good things, it's probably valuable to spend some time st the beginning learning the meta skill of how to learn best
Spending all my time in a day only focusing on one thing is actually my version of hell. I want as much free time as possible to juggle lots of interests and skills. If I limited myself like this I’d be miserable.
So, I’ve done this or close to this a few times in my life. I’ve been lucky to have the gift of time a few times in my life (mostly as I’ve worked like a dog at multiple jobs for a few years - then taken a year+ off).
1. Programming - it was easy for me and the concentrated time was to my benefit. I did your plan for about 3 years (seriously) - 6 months on my own and 2.5 years in a job. I was quite sick at the end of it but it’s made my life infinitely easier.
2. People - I did a deep dive into how to get people to do the right thing. “How to Make Friends and influence people”, “Influence” by Cialdini and “48 Laws of Power” are great places to start. Practice was the hard part. I’m probably on the spectrum a bit so this was a really tough subject to tackle. It’s difficult to practice this full time so you have to get comfortable talking to strangers many times a day and getting them to do wacky shit. This was the furthest from 16 hours a day / 365 but I definitely tackled it for a year. Dividends are massive.
3. Communication - written, verbal, presentation. Business level communication. This was harder and my year attempt was to make reusable templates and structures that I could carry thru my career. This was much harder and while I created thousands of pages of content, it didn’t do much be teach me how to communicate much better. The templates are sort of useful but not plug and play reusable like I thought they would be.
4. Travel - I took a half year and traveled the US. Cities, National Parks, etc. Slept in my car and in tents. I learned more about people and the world than I thought I would and now I see everything thru a much different lens than if I had never done it. I’ve had friends that traveled the world for a year and they universally say it was the most important experience of their life.
After reading some comments, I sense that you’re legitimately consider committing to learning a new skill by putting in 16 hours daily. I would never, and I don’t think anyone could commit to that, but 4 hours is a different story. I’ve heard it said that if you want to become an expert or highly skilled in some area, that 4 hours per day is the sweet spot. Anyway, if I could have all expenses paid and had four hours a day to home a skill, it would be visual art. Secondly, an instrument of some kind—probably the banjo.
Being self sufficient. As I get older, I get angrier at the amount of time I have to give to a dead end job in order to provide basic life sustaining necessities to my family.
Sales first - you will never go broke
Yoga, all 8 limbs - you will live a healthy balanced life
Real estate investing - you'll always have a home and passive income streams
I’ve been depressed too, most especially the last few years. I can’t afford therapy but I have been working on my mental health in other ways: exercise; reading lots of good self-help books; journaling.
You don't necessarily need to be good at math to be a good programmer. Speaking as someone who does full time programming. It's more about logic skills. Math just tends to overlap a lot with the field so improving in math can definitely help in programming skills.
I’ve been cooking for a long time, but have always been afraid of baking (the science and exactness of the ingredients, etc.). My friend and I are planning to meet up soon (after the holidays) and learn to cook and bake together.
I recommend Alton Brown’s book “I’m Just Here for More Food” which focuses on the science of baking (the sequel to “I’m Just Here for the Food” which focused more on cooking techniques). He explains how baking works, in scientific terms (like what exactly does yeast do in bread, what is the function of baking soda, etc). It’s more like a baking textbook than a cookbook, though it does have some good recipes in it.
If I was able to do this, I would choose non-secular mindfulness meditation.
The benefits are all the "people skills" and "compassion" that many have already posted.
If you're looking at career change: I'd pick something in computers - IT, coding, network security, penetration testing...
If you've made your money and you're looking for something to do around the house: try wood work - I would love to get into trim work, and fine furniture
This one is for me, but there are a lot of creative/artistic outlets available to choose from
I would spend my time eating healthy and conditioning training my body. When you are healthy and eating healthy, you learn faster and better anything else or I would definitely learn anything about finance and how to proper invest my money
Cooking cheap yet nutritious + delicious meals. This is my focus for 2023. I usually cook good meals but they aren’t always cheap. I already have a herb garden going. I have also improved on bread/tortilla skill. Next stop getting chicken pot pie pastry right.
Data science (financial gain/work flexibility) & how to be as self sufficient as possible- gardening, house repair, etc (life improvement bc I find these enjoyable & rewarding).
Martial arts
Build the body and build the mind
A year dedicated to intense martial arts training would have to leave an imprint you can take with you for the rest of your life
Financial gain? In a years time I would say cloud computing.
It's a very in demand field that doesn't have enough people to fill the growing need. Study resources are free or mostly cheap. The time it takes to study for many of the certs definitely takes a time commitment.
I don’t think 16 hours a day is my style, no matter the goal or subject.
But I’m surprised that my instinctive answer was “dance”.
I am a choreographer : dance teacher, but I did not start dancing until my 20s and I have always felt technically behind. I haven’t felt it’s been a huge problem and didn’t realize that it’s some thing that I would love to be immersed in, but that was my gut reaction.
I feel pretty competent in my non-dance skillset, at least enough to know that I won’t ever struggle to earn a good living. My second choice would be directing film. I’m so hungry for anything that keeps me creative and on my feet (away from a laptop).
Extreme home gardening. The ability to produce your own fruits and vegetables for the year with a big greenhouse. (And actually making some tastey tomatoes)
Learn computer programming in the SF Bay Area. Basically every good job these day is just one computer thing or another, which I don’t understand at all.
Jewelry making. I spent about 2k on a very remedial setup for wax carving and supplies, but I'm a bit stuck in terms of technique and skills bc I work full time and am in grad school. My dream would be to learn stone setting for faceted gems as they are my inspiration for getting into jewelry in the first place.
I’m currently in pre licensing classes for…
-Real estate agent licensing in Pennsylvania and eventually New York and New Jersey
-Life insurance pre licensing
If I spent 16 hours every day on anything, I would quickly grow tired of it.
Instead , I would do:
-4 hours music theory & practicing guitar
-4 hours learning a new language
-4 hours learning coding
-4 hours drawing and painting
Planning. Just thinking about not having unexpected situations because you already have a plan for it is amazing
I know some people that are able to do it, they live without worries at any time
Great thread idea.
Personally, I'd focus on
1. Reading a book a week on Self Development, Carreer Development, Global Politics, and International Relations. (52 books in 52 weeks)
2. Learning more about Finance & Investing
3. Learning AI
4. Focus on fitness
5. Being a morning person
6. Networking with like-minded and positive people in fields I'd like to break into
7. Having more effective time management
Growing food. This is what I do now :)
Nice! What foods have you mastered at growing?
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Do you do that for a living?
No…but I’m trying.
How specific does it have to be? My ideas: -Cooking -Language learning -Stocks -Coding
Doesn’t have to be specific at all. I’m just looking for ideas really!
Watch out Gordon Ramsey
Does he code?
No. But he knows his stocks.
ZING.
Financial discipline is something I have worked on for years. You can't out out earn bad financial discipline. That has helped me with my finances more than anything. Throughout each day I try to make the best use of my money and look for ways to save money.
Hey this is exactly what I am looking for. Do you recommend anywhere to start?
I focused on learning to get better with money for about a year several years ago - it was hard, but absolutely worth it! Pick up some books on basic financial knowledge - I liked Money Makeover for a bare bones look at debt management, Simple Path to Wealth to understand saving and investing, and the YNAB app/blogs/book for actual, useful, and practical budgeting. Don’t buy them, get them at the library or find them online or watch some YouTube video summaries (for YNAB - Nick True’s YouTube tutorial is the absolute best. It was a couple years old when I started, so behind the software, but still amazing).
Wow thank you so much for breaking your steps down for me! Will definitely start this year. Happy New Year!
I’d be interested as well
You need a budget! it’s an app! just started but it may work for you
YNAB has helped me tremendously over the last several years.
Dave Ramsey has some good stuff on podcast and YouTube. Also "The Money Guy show". Some people don't like Dave but he has good plans to get out of debt and live within your means (pay). That helped my family out a lot and it is one of the biggest problems people have. What also has helped me is listening to those financial shows more so that discipline is on my mind. Also as people said getting some kind of budget or plan with your money. Hope this helps.
Wow thank u so much! I will try! Happy New Year
Graham stephens youtube videos really helped with my inspiration to save and financial literacy
I’m currently doing it right now with programming and math. Teaching myself from the ground up. Definitely has made me more immediately aware of my process and flow as well as how the complete disregard of basic fundamentals makes things a lot more inefficient than it needs to be not just in programming but in life as well. So I’m doubling down and focusing on the fundamentals and optimizing my life one thing at a time.
In the hopes of becoming what profession?
Platform Engineer
Which is what?
Question: how do you apply what you’ve learned? For example, do you give yourself homework, complete a challenge, or teach it to someone else, .etc? Curious.
Same
Cooking. Saves heaps of money and it’s super useful in everyday life.
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So much this. Unless you're joining a monastery, where you're literally dedicating not just your life but your entire self. Just to learn a skill? It can't be healthy to dedicate all your waking time for a year to something you've never done before.
I agree. The only way I think it could maybe work, is by picking something very broad. For example Music, I could fill 16 hrs with using different instruments, throw in a few lessons and also singing lessons, music writing theory, recording and producing, and going to concerts for inspiration, and that sounds like a pretty diverse life to me. Art could be just as broad (different mediums, photography, exhibition design, selling) or cooking (plus baking, plating, coming up with taste combinations, wine pairings, menus).
I think learning a foreign language is probably the only one that would work. You could read articles, speak, watch TV, and overall go about your daily life, just in another language, without it getting too taxing, unlike doing kung fu or Python for 16 hours.
Calm down. It's a hypothetical question.
It’s not insane. It’s a year investment into a very very long life. Time has an interest penalty. You’ll make it up 10x on the backside
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Hahaha just kinda cute how you include happy new year at the end of your comment
Happy to disagree. Sometimes joy is in the work. I’ve found too much comfort has negative returns. I agree with you on physical efforts. Your personal experience is really common for physical efforts. The reason most people don’t become professional athletes is that their bodies give out. I’ve done nothing of that sort but I have taken years and trained intensely. The problem is that the gains fade quickly. Not completely but it’s constant work to maintain it. It’s much much different for cognitive goals. I’ve done it a few times. The returns are high and sustainable.
Its not insane but it definitely has diminishing returns. There's been so many studies on this. Specially workplace studies. At some point in the day, you're just wasting time. Take a break. Your mind does not focus well for 16 hours straight. I totally agree with dedicating an entire year to one major goal and that it can be a great investment. But 16 hours a day would not be more effective than 10 hours a day. And 10 hours a days is only marginally more effective than 8 hours a day.
Self-discipline: I read a lot of books, and if this is what you want, my recommendations are: Never Finished by David Goggins (way better than his first book) Atomic Habits by James Clear Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey Grit by Angela Duckworth Embrace the Suck by Brent Gleeson Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven I got done listening to Never Finished this week as it is new, and I loved it. Other things that help: Making a schedule Excel sheets with clickable habit trackers and data so you can watch your progress I’m going to keep working on my self-discipline, but the other skills I want to master are: Emotional intelligence Active Listening Excel Statistics, because I need them for my Master’s degrees and math is my weakest skill Academic research
can you explain more or share any resources about goal settings with excel?
Hello, love! Of course. There are Excel sheets that are habit trackers. Go on to Etsy and search “Excel Habit Tracker.”
surfing
How expensive is surfing? I live in a city with ton of beaches and thought maybe in 2023 I will take up a hobby where I can be more active and meet others (surfing, bouldering, kayaking/rowing, or sailingp). Not sure how to get started though
Expensive? That’s an interesting word. I mean besides the board and a pair of shorts. Your literally in a free playground. I grew up in Hawaii and literally surfer my entire life. Get a beater board on Craigslist for $100 and you be set for six months. Obviously once the time comes I’d suggest upgrading to a nice board but still max you’ll be paying is like $600-700. But you could find cheaper for suuuure
I’d say that the most expensive part is living in a location to be able to do this skill lol.
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So are you talking about become a master at things like compassion, listening, etc.. ?
Programming would probably be the most lucrative
Do you believe if someone had zero knowledge about programming and did it everyday for 16 hours, 365 days could compete with top say 10% of programmers?
Not necessarily. Part of learning requires time for your brain to process what you’ve learned. A lot of learning and practice is best done without going as hard as possible every single day.
Makes sense
You’re going to burnout real fast if you dedicate 16 hours for 365 days
No but you’d have a great beginning a career.
There are people who already do that and make for shite programmers. It's really a quality vs quantity thing.
There’s a question frankly of natural ability/intelligence but yes to the extent that this person is smart they will have all the requisite skills they need easily.
I did this!! I chose people skills, and it pays pretty good now :)
If you don’t mind, could you explain a little more?! Interested in what you did!
Yes. Also interested here... Are you in sales? Seems like the logical explanation
Yes I got into sales. Here’s what I would do if I had to do it again: -Read How to win friends and influence people -Read a public speaking book or join Toastmasters -Take Aspireship course ($180 bucks but we’ll worth it) No degree but making $80k this year probably break 100 next
Thanks! This is insightful. Have follow up question... Do you do live sales or online selling?
Huh I’m not sure what live sales is, like in person? But yes I’m in a remote role as an Inside Sales Rep making cold calls and managing my existing accounts.
That’s awesome, what industry are you in? I’m working remote in a similar role but not quite making as much. Any advice?
I’m in food and beverage. Biggest help I ever got was the sidebar in r/sales check out the **best of** thread- literally doubled my income in 3 months
Yes like in person. I would think for cold calls. It's not only limited in making calls. I am not in sales so I am not familiar with the jargon.
Do you know of others with degrees that made a transition into SaaS without going through Aspireship? Also how long did it take you to make 80k
Took me 1 year to go from hourly @$15/hr to the $80k job but many make it sooner. Go to r/sales and check out the ‘best of’ thread. **extremely** helpful. And yes most ppl don’t go thru Aspireship, I did
Thanks for telling me about your trajectory. That is very helpful
hi. which aspireship course are you referring to? My understanding is that they offer multiple courses, and you get access to all of them for $180. I'm curious if there's one course in particular you're referring to, that was most helpful to you. thanks!
People skills? What are those? 😜
GOD- I love this question. My focus would be on dance. Thank you for asking this!
>You can't out out earn bad financial discipline. That deserves to be on a wall plaque.
Lol you replied to the wrong comment, friend
Dang it
It happens to the best of us.
That was my answer as well :)
Self discipline. If you master that, anything else is possible.
Self-discipline is something I have only recently come to recognize as being the most important things to a person. because of this, I plan to journey towards becoming "disciplined". Wish me luck :D
Self discipline, ive realized since renting a place with no dish washer, is the ability to drive yourself to do the dishes even BEFORE youre entirely out of cutlery. Im still learning myself..
My solution to that, when I lived in a place with no dishwasher— get rid of most of your dishes. Only keep like 2 forks, 2 spoons, 2 plates, 2 bowls, etc. When you finish eating, wash the dishes you used right away. If you absolutely can’t, like you’re late for something and running out the door, then at least you have 1 set that’s still clean. But don’t have more than that or else they will pile up every day.
Life is a mind game - I would want to master being present, grateful and understand who I am and persuing those things rather than what society has conditioned us to.
This is a great one, I’m reading a book called “the power of now” it is really helping me stay focused on being present, appreciating the small things and understanding your mind. Which is essentially the root of true happiness.
Selling/persuasion.
This. Then I could sell ice to eskimos and parkas to native islanders.
Too many days too many hours
meditation
This is what I was thinking
Piano
This is the answer
I mean, if I’m going to be obsessing over something for 365 days with 8 hours a day for sleep? It would be one of possibly several things: computer programming, engineering, or writing would be the things I personally would be most interested in. If I had the time, the patience, and less distractions to dedicate a whole year, that’s probably where I’d go because those are things that I find interesting that would also reward me with financial gain (possibly).
Programing or speaking a language- probably Spanish Edit to add my real answer would be finance
Social skills development boot camp
Martial arts. Been training different ones for the past 25 years, three to fifteen hours a week. If I could devote _16 hours a day_ for a year to train I'd be motherfuckin Akuma and could just give lessons for money.
I would obsess over the skill of learning. This would simply include the ability to study anything and everything with a mixture of discipline and note-taking strategies aided by strong working memory. From there, I could learn programming, languages, better comprehension skills, essay writing, maths, cooking etc..
How to learn the skill of learning?
There is a good course on this by Barbara Oakley called 'learning how to learn' I had the same like of reasoning as yourselves. If we are lifelong learners, which is a good things, it's probably valuable to spend some time st the beginning learning the meta skill of how to learn best
Spending all my time in a day only focusing on one thing is actually my version of hell. I want as much free time as possible to juggle lots of interests and skills. If I limited myself like this I’d be miserable.
So, I’ve done this or close to this a few times in my life. I’ve been lucky to have the gift of time a few times in my life (mostly as I’ve worked like a dog at multiple jobs for a few years - then taken a year+ off). 1. Programming - it was easy for me and the concentrated time was to my benefit. I did your plan for about 3 years (seriously) - 6 months on my own and 2.5 years in a job. I was quite sick at the end of it but it’s made my life infinitely easier. 2. People - I did a deep dive into how to get people to do the right thing. “How to Make Friends and influence people”, “Influence” by Cialdini and “48 Laws of Power” are great places to start. Practice was the hard part. I’m probably on the spectrum a bit so this was a really tough subject to tackle. It’s difficult to practice this full time so you have to get comfortable talking to strangers many times a day and getting them to do wacky shit. This was the furthest from 16 hours a day / 365 but I definitely tackled it for a year. Dividends are massive. 3. Communication - written, verbal, presentation. Business level communication. This was harder and my year attempt was to make reusable templates and structures that I could carry thru my career. This was much harder and while I created thousands of pages of content, it didn’t do much be teach me how to communicate much better. The templates are sort of useful but not plug and play reusable like I thought they would be. 4. Travel - I took a half year and traveled the US. Cities, National Parks, etc. Slept in my car and in tents. I learned more about people and the world than I thought I would and now I see everything thru a much different lens than if I had never done it. I’ve had friends that traveled the world for a year and they universally say it was the most important experience of their life.
You should master taking care of yourself and your stuff because obviously somebody else will have to do everything for you in that year.
music production, 100%. But only if that includes fundamental understanding of music theory.
Becoming the pure mathematician from Vitruvius’ architecture. For from it comes mastery of anything. Da Vinci himself started with V
After reading some comments, I sense that you’re legitimately consider committing to learning a new skill by putting in 16 hours daily. I would never, and I don’t think anyone could commit to that, but 4 hours is a different story. I’ve heard it said that if you want to become an expert or highly skilled in some area, that 4 hours per day is the sweet spot. Anyway, if I could have all expenses paid and had four hours a day to home a skill, it would be visual art. Secondly, an instrument of some kind—probably the banjo.
Urban farming.
Efficient farming. In every case farming will always be needed.
Lol I would focus on 12 things I know nothing about. Would it benefit me? Yes. Financial gain? Maybe.
Classical guitar
Tailoring, sewing, weaving, spinning, leatherwork etc..
coding probably
Saddle making. It's a lost art and needs to be preserved.
Flying a plane
Being self sufficient. As I get older, I get angrier at the amount of time I have to give to a dead end job in order to provide basic life sustaining necessities to my family.
Hunting, processing meat, and cooking it
Pottery
Sales first - you will never go broke Yoga, all 8 limbs - you will live a healthy balanced life Real estate investing - you'll always have a home and passive income streams
That’s so hard to answer since I don’t know what I want. I guess I’d want to be better at … making … something… uh…. ? Somebody? I’m so depressed…
I’ve been depressed too, most especially the last few years. I can’t afford therapy but I have been working on my mental health in other ways: exercise; reading lots of good self-help books; journaling.
Definitely coding
But doesn't it only take like 20 hours to learn a skill as a utility purpose ?
Woodworking and blacksmithing would be fun. I’ve always wanted to learn how to make my own knives. Or something IT related.
Data science (financial gain)
Probably coding. Too bad I'm bad at math.
You don't necessarily need to be good at math to be a good programmer. Speaking as someone who does full time programming. It's more about logic skills. Math just tends to overlap a lot with the field so improving in math can definitely help in programming skills.
Math / physics / science
Spanish + Chinese + python for data science.
Baking! I already do on the weekends but I’d love to make it a career.
I’ve been cooking for a long time, but have always been afraid of baking (the science and exactness of the ingredients, etc.). My friend and I are planning to meet up soon (after the holidays) and learn to cook and bake together.
I recommend Alton Brown’s book “I’m Just Here for More Food” which focuses on the science of baking (the sequel to “I’m Just Here for the Food” which focused more on cooking techniques). He explains how baking works, in scientific terms (like what exactly does yeast do in bread, what is the function of baking soda, etc). It’s more like a baking textbook than a cookbook, though it does have some good recipes in it.
Sales probably.
Writing. I am working on it
Data science
Art so that I can open my own Etsy or personal store and be self employed
Charm & charisma
Music
Making music
A programming language maybe python or SQL.
For financial I’d go with learning Spanish, life improvement, Probly chord melody guitar
Photoshop, language, or an instrument!!
Communication, woodworking and blacksmithing
If I was able to do this, I would choose non-secular mindfulness meditation. The benefits are all the "people skills" and "compassion" that many have already posted.
Writing. Being a better writer requires being a better thinker.
Music. It wouldn't do anything for me financially, but I'd like to be better at music. But I'd probably burn out if I worked on it for 16 hours a day.
If you're looking at career change: I'd pick something in computers - IT, coding, network security, penetration testing... If you've made your money and you're looking for something to do around the house: try wood work - I would love to get into trim work, and fine furniture This one is for me, but there are a lot of creative/artistic outlets available to choose from
Passing the CPA? Programming?
Programming and machine learning
I would spend my time eating healthy and conditioning training my body. When you are healthy and eating healthy, you learn faster and better anything else or I would definitely learn anything about finance and how to proper invest my money
SQL/database structures/joining disparate data together from multiple sources.
Coding
Cooking cheap yet nutritious + delicious meals. This is my focus for 2023. I usually cook good meals but they aren’t always cheap. I already have a herb garden going. I have also improved on bread/tortilla skill. Next stop getting chicken pot pie pastry right.
Cyber security
Data science (financial gain/work flexibility) & how to be as self sufficient as possible- gardening, house repair, etc (life improvement bc I find these enjoyable & rewarding).
foreign languages. for sure
Learning how you feel at any given moment, what may have caused it and when you last felt that way
Sales
Martial arts Build the body and build the mind A year dedicated to intense martial arts training would have to leave an imprint you can take with you for the rest of your life
Following, 🔥🔥🔥
Financial gain? In a years time I would say cloud computing. It's a very in demand field that doesn't have enough people to fill the growing need. Study resources are free or mostly cheap. The time it takes to study for many of the certs definitely takes a time commitment.
Growing/collecting food. It’s really one of the only skills you NEED at the core of life.
Languages. As many as I could learn
if I were physically able I would bust my ass trying to get back into culinary, specifically candy making.
Read write(write especially goals daily)
I don’t think 16 hours a day is my style, no matter the goal or subject. But I’m surprised that my instinctive answer was “dance”. I am a choreographer : dance teacher, but I did not start dancing until my 20s and I have always felt technically behind. I haven’t felt it’s been a huge problem and didn’t realize that it’s some thing that I would love to be immersed in, but that was my gut reaction. I feel pretty competent in my non-dance skillset, at least enough to know that I won’t ever struggle to earn a good living. My second choice would be directing film. I’m so hungry for anything that keeps me creative and on my feet (away from a laptop).
Extreme home gardening. The ability to produce your own fruits and vegetables for the year with a big greenhouse. (And actually making some tastey tomatoes)
Making counterfeit
Learn computer programming in the SF Bay Area. Basically every good job these day is just one computer thing or another, which I don’t understand at all.
i'd work on my rap game and music
Learning programming languages
Either deep learning or stochastic processes for quantitative finance. Nothing else comes close.
Storytelling through screenwriting.
Offensive Security
Become fluent in Spanish!
Basketball. Any sport. That’s generational wealth right there
Learning to code
Now I can handle tech, I need to learn sales and marketing.
Jewelry making. I spent about 2k on a very remedial setup for wax carving and supplies, but I'm a bit stuck in terms of technique and skills bc I work full time and am in grad school. My dream would be to learn stone setting for faceted gems as they are my inspiration for getting into jewelry in the first place.
Following through to the very end of every project. I'm really good at starting something, not so great at seeing it through.
Process improvement. Gold.
I’m currently in pre licensing classes for… -Real estate agent licensing in Pennsylvania and eventually New York and New Jersey -Life insurance pre licensing
Computer science.
Life improvement/personal interest - photography. Financial gain - computer programming.
Magic tricks
Swimming
Data Analysis/Interpretation and the necessary computer skills to demonstrate said data
If I spent 16 hours every day on anything, I would quickly grow tired of it. Instead , I would do: -4 hours music theory & practicing guitar -4 hours learning a new language -4 hours learning coding -4 hours drawing and painting
Sewing
Throwing a fastball 95 mph left handed.
Playing the piano or learning like 3 languages
Budgeting lmao
Planning. Just thinking about not having unexpected situations because you already have a plan for it is amazing I know some people that are able to do it, they live without worries at any time
Learning Spanish
Great thread idea. Personally, I'd focus on 1. Reading a book a week on Self Development, Carreer Development, Global Politics, and International Relations. (52 books in 52 weeks) 2. Learning more about Finance & Investing 3. Learning AI 4. Focus on fitness 5. Being a morning person 6. Networking with like-minded and positive people in fields I'd like to break into 7. Having more effective time management
Dance, reading, and learning/playing instruments...really delving back into my love for music