What skills are you building over time?

[WonderSeeker]

What skills are you building over time?

For me, it's practicing Mandarin / Pinyin. I do 2 hours a day minimum. 3-6 hours a day on weekends. Watching Chinese movies, TV, handriting, etc. Planning to take it deep (HSK 4 and beyond) as long as I'm living in China.

P.S. If you are a world traveller, then learn to love learning languages! Language study felt like such a chore in high school. But as an adult having been exposed to French, Mongolian, and Korean (and soon Chinese) in countries that speak these as native languages, I've found they open up to you so many opportunities when you learn thier languages.

You become an object of total fascination which in my experience has been great for career and dating.

[Human Mint]

I am practicing to become fluent with the guitar.

Sometimes 10 minutes a day is enough, sometimes I need to grind 4+ hours a day. It depends on the area I want to improve in. Requirements can vary.

To improvise over jazz for example I need to practice multiple hours a day if I want to make significant progress. But ear training on the other hand, 10 minutes a day goes a long way.

[Hojo]

Guitar drawing and cajon. Nothing that requires my brain. I never used my brain so learning a language or doing calculations are not a thing I can do.

Edited Sunday at 12:32 AM by Hojo

[Yimpa]

1 hour ago, Hojo said:

cajon

Neat! I’ve seen that instrument being played for over a decade, but I never knew the name of it until now. 

[Ulax]

Cybersecurity, Dating, Siege 6. Might go back to Piano

[Sandhu]

Calisthenics 

[WonderSeeker]

14 hours ago, Hojo said:

Guitar drawing and cajon. Nothing that requires my brain. I never used my brain so learning a language or doing calculations are not a thing I can do.

Imagine switching brains for a day to see what it would feel like. Man you must have gotten lucky finding Actualized because there's too much brain in these forums!

[Rishabh R]

Ai prompt engineering , Biotechnology, resilience , emotional regulation skills.

[oOo]

Mathematics is my favourite skill to build, the physical body and the consciousness that abodes within it is my favourite tool to rebuild with that skill.

To add, awareness is entirely concerned of that which it is aware of.

Any degree of self-consciousness is to be by that measure aware of one's own limits of consciousness as that awareness exists in that moment.

Mathematics provides the strictest measurement of those boundaries, an alertness to my own short-comings of that which I should already be aware of but am not, or that boundary that I should traverse with my consciousness but I have not.

This is the purpose of self-aware consciousness, and awareness, the measurement of that.

One's level of consciousness, is automatically gauged as a limit to which one is aware of their own level of consciousness relative to where it is not, most especially, be able to articulate in clear dialogue to oneself what further areas of awareness in consciousness one still needs to master.

Morever, the present strategies one is undertaking in reducing the friction that should exist between the awareness of these short-comings and the pull one should have to close them.

It is the mark of a mature consciousness to both be content with oneself and discontent, even restless, with the gap that exists in this awareness between the actual and the actualisable.

That is the very purpose of life in the context of our growth for consciousness.

Any postulation of consciousness at all, is presupposing a working model of consciousness with that postulation, and that postulation at the very least comes with it, a measurement of how aware someone is relative to that postulation's advancement. This is why it is so pertinent to any path of personal development once it has reached this path, to conceptualise the boundaryless with boundaries that mark out areas of potential growth. 

Imagination, empathy, heart-mind-body connection, cultural understanding, social intelligence, dreams, physical stamina, fortitude, delayal of gratification, etc.

With all of these maximised what may we typically see? And is this a greater and higher expression of consciousness than otherwise would be? What are all the practical ways in which one can add these categories to their own frontiers?

If one truly understands the infinite maturely, then at the very least, one can figure out how to pick up a pen, get a piece of paper out, and mark out their areas of growth for the day, in a joyful, well spirited, supportive way towards, while viewing themselves as infinitely microcosmic in that dance.

One thing now becoming memeticised is how personal development has just been turned into this dopamine drug or just another life treadmill to run down, and there is definitely a lot of truth to that, however it presents itself with another trap. The purpose of personal development like the purpose of any other thing in life, is understood relative to the limits of the consciousness apprehending it, which includes the maturity to which development is appraised. 

Any degree of sophistication beyond that cultural trend, whether towards obsessive self-improvement reversing the sense of meaning it's designed to instil, or rebelling against it entirely, is in service to understand purpose relative to context, so let me paint that picture briefly. We have this single life before us and the mature support of the multiplicity of life surrounding us. This causality engenders frontier points, how do I give more of my life each day? How do I explore more of life each day? Anyone serious in this endeavour, must measure it, inclusive of both the peace of that striving and the fight beneath it (or vice versa).

Measurement, is why any communication to civilisation, to the life that breaths this opportunity in this moment right now and the awareness to seize it, exists at all.

Measurement is not just in the conceptual, it is in our evolutionary instincts, memories, emotions and deeper essences, even tribe consenses even if personal opinion tends to go against the grain. Mathematics, is just my own main measurement at present, simply because I have learned to align it with so many other areas of life from those noted frontiers and beyond: physical, mental, social, spiritual, etc development.

Perceive yourself rightly as grand, sacred, humble and eager, and you'll know how to position yourself relative to grandiosity, and the skills that await their furthering just outside its frontiers. Grandiosity is not bad in and of itself, we have this first word 'grand', of which all life is by virtue of its existence, then we have 'iose' kind of like 'virtuoso', and one of the goals of a consciousness relative to present understandings is to make it more poetically real, where music is reflective of harmony in the chaos. The skill of learning how to be a 'grand viruoso' in the context of one's own movement forward, is the opposite of being grandiosely unhinged. It is the accurate and well-earned self-respect to which one acknowledges within themselves because they've have taken the time to measure themselves correctly, and therefore can own themselves fully in that space, while pushing its boundaries with the mature weight they've set. Grandiosity is the fuel to be your full self, but like every other word when it comes to fuller, deeper, higher consciousness, it presupposes that you are perceiving the word with the maturity that places limits on its potential short-comings. So that the potentialisation, which needs the acknowledgement of the grand as its fuel, can actually result into meaning made real. 

When we are born, we are born to become our parents. Then we are born to become our environments. Then we are born to become ourselves. Only to then become born again to become the world once more. Only to become, ourselves, again.

Languages are great for consciousness expansion in unique often hidden ways. 

I am learning French, Korean, Ukrainian, Chinese, Italian, Greek and English. Oh, and the US Keyboard as opposed to the UK version. 

Meta-language is probably my biggest venture in mathematics, in imagination especially.

Best wishes

 

Edited yesterday at 12:10 AM by oOo

[Ramanujan]

@oOo can a 100 IQ guy win nobel prize for maths. how much does IQ matter in maths

[enchanted]

On 04/07/2026 at 6:46 AM, WonderSeeker said:

What skills are you building over time?

For me, it's practicing Mandarin / Pinyin. I do 2 hours a day minimum. 3-6 hours a day on weekends. Watching Chinese movies, TV, handriting, etc. Planning to take it deep (HSK 4 and beyond) as long as I'm living in China.

P.S. If you are a world traveller, then learn to love learning languages! Language study felt like such a chore in high school. But as an adult having been exposed to French, Mongolian, and Korean (and soon Chinese) in countries that speak these as native languages, I've found they open up to you so many opportunities when you learn thier languages.

You become an object of total fascination which in my experience has been great for career and dating.

That's awesome dude! Very inspiring, not enough adults believe they can learn a new language and believe children have some special powers. The truth is kids take longer to learn languages than adults. A typical adult can learn a language in one year if they work on it daily and have people to talk with. Whereas kids take several years. 

Edited yesterday at 12:54 PM by enchanted

[BlessedLion]

Fitness, Dating and Attraction/Social Skills, Meditation/Consciousness, Speaking and Writing skills for YT 

[WonderSeeker]

23 hours ago, oOo said:

Mathematics is my favourite skill to build, the physical body and the consciousness that abodes within it is my favourite tool to rebuild with that skill.

Morever, the present strategies one is undertaking in reducing the friction that should exist between the awareness of these short-comings and the pull one should have to close them.

It is the mark of a mature consciousness to both be content with oneself and discontent, even restless, with the gap that exists in this awareness between the actual and the actualisable.

Meta-language is probably my biggest venture in mathematics, in imagination especially.

Cool man, thanks for sharing. Being content with who you are but still actively striving is such a delicious paradox once you embrace it. In recent years I've learned to be content more.

People say "You're too young to relax, hustle harder!" But nah, I'm happier this way and actually making way more money than before. My consciousness is stabalizing better and I'm learning how to cycle my emotions when uphevals occur.

But sometime soon there will be a kick to go hard for more consciousness, health, love, etc

10 hours ago, enchanted said:

That's awesome dude! Very inspiring, not enough adults believe they can learn a new language and believe children have some special powers. The truth is kids take longer to learn languages than adults. A typical adult can learn a language in one year if they work on it daily and have people to talk with. Whereas kids take several years. 

See, I always thought it was a misconception too. I still think kids are at an advantage for learning 2 languages from say age three, but to start in your 20s/30s isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Some people have said put in 10 hours a day and bam you are at intermediate Chinese within a year. Mathematically, 3 hours a day for 3-4 years to achieve the same result. Not bad

[integral]

As a kid: skateboarding, chess, drums, beating every video game on hard difficulty

As a Teen: Chess, bodybuilding, piano, drums, skateboarding, boxing, tae kwon do,

As a early adult: philosophy, software engineering, callisthenics

25-32: functional medical practitioner, statemaxxing, relationship intelligence, spirituality,

Today: Social Media Attention, business intelligence, epistemic intelligence, statemaxxing, slackline

Tomorrow: Lead the next Generation, GodMaxxing, BeingMaxxing, System Change.

Edited 21 hours ago by integral

[Elliott]

Ethnobotany, geology, parenting. Just personal interests, I'm not a botanist, geologist, or parent. Yes they're skills...

Edited 8 hours ago by Elliott

[bazera]

• Fitness and health skills (weight-lifting properly, cooking different food, etc)
• Meditation and mindfulness, pranayamas
• Using LLMs more effectively at my job, software architecture skills
• Contemplation and philosophy
• Attraction skills

[Human Mint]

I was learning German a year ago. I am listening that language again after a year and I undeerstand a lot of words. Makes me more motivated. I grinded hard.

 

Edited 8 hours ago by Human Mint

[Human Mint]

On 7/6/2026 at 9:53 AM, enchanted said:

That's awesome dude! Very inspiring, not enough adults believe they can learn a new language and believe children have some special powers. The truth is kids take longer to learn languages than adults. A typical adult can learn a language in one year if they work on it daily and have people to talk with. Whereas kids take several years. 

I agree with that.

But kids do have special powers. For example there is a window in your first months of life where you can aquire perfect pitch. After that you can't learn it as an adult never, as much as you want it.

[LordFall]

Business, marketing, content creation, audience/community building

Those are the core skills to create a big scale life I think