New skill

Being a beginner is unpleasant for about half an hour. After that it gets interesting.

Pick a skill you have nothing to do with: knots, a guitar chord, juggling, a letter from another alphabet, a simple recipe. Don't read about it, just do it, thirty minutes with your hands. Find one short lesson and copy it, pausing and rewinding. Accept that the first twenty minutes will go badly, that's the actual task. By the end get one small result you can show: a tied knot, three notes in a row, three balls thrown. Write down what turned out to be harder than it looked from the outside.

When did I last let myself be bad at something?