I’ve always wanted to learn how to grow mushrooms. Hopefully one day I’ll have the time + money to do it.
/r/UncleBens on reddit is a great resource for any amateur mycologists out there! ;)
Lets get em on a /c/UncleBens and I’d be stoked to start piecing the concept together!!
The piano.
It’s kind of sad (for me) that I never have picked up the keys, considering I’ve been making music for 20+ years. I can play the guitar and bass, and I know enough music theory. I know where the notes, chords, and scales lay on the keyboard, but anything else than simple melodies or chords just confuses me. My hands don’t just work independently that way.
One exercise that I know people who’ve had success with is to be focusing on simpler scales, which will all have slightly different fingerings for both hands. Just the regular primarily white-key scales.
E.g. C major goes 12312345 for the right hand, and 54321321 for the left hand.
Then once that’s doable at some speed, moving onto the tricker simple scales. And then going into contrary motion (where the right hand goes up and the left hand down). I’ve found that helps people get more used to their hands working independently. Especially because it provides more structure, and just one thing (different fingering) to focus on, rather than adding in differences in tempo etc.
How to actually play an instrument. I started to get really good at the glockenspiel a while ago, by then Covid happened and I had to stop. I still do choir stuff at school, but an instrument would also be cool.
More languages! I wish there were more decent classes where I live, I feel like I wouldn’t retain well with online learning
Sign language.
Before I was a psychiatric nurse I sat a lot of 1:1 suicide watch, but also a lot with people who were very sick and had a lot of tubes in various preexisting and created orifices. All of those tubes can be very uncomfortable, and even if the person logically knows they will recover and need the tubes to do that, they have to be constantly reminded to leave them alone. LOTS of people rip out their own urine catheters and even breathing tubes, and the anchor bulbs can make a very bloody mess on their way out.
When communicating with such people I often wished we both knew sign language fully, but I did know some basics I would teach to patients over the course of a shift. I highly recommend everyone knows
- water/drink
- toilet (PLUS piss/shit since they might help you differently for either one)
- pain/hurt
- food/eat
- vomit/puke
These’ll take you thirty minutes to learn today and if you’re strung up in an ICU someday it might make hell an inch less hellish. Communication boards where you point to the letter can help a whole lot, but when you gotta shit you gotta shit!
I’d love to properly learn sign language too! I have two basic phrases and that’s it.
Apparently babies pick it up quicker than spoken language too which can really help with communication issues when they’re toddlers.
I’ve wanted to know sign language just to make it easier to communicate in loud spaces or with someone on the other side of the room. Your motivations are even better though.
I really really want to learn (Standard) Arabic, but I’ve never really gotten around to it yet because language-wise there’s always been another language which is more practical at the time for me to learn (currently Dutch).
Well I have macrame on my list for this year, so that one will be dealt with soon.
But otherwise, I’d love to be the type of person to speak multiple languages, sadly it’s just not a realistic goal.
And I’d love to learn to dance, properly, pretty much any kind of dance. But again probably not realistic at this point. We’ll see.
Music theory and harmony,
Russian,
Mandarin,
play the piano.
I have been slowly learning to speak Mandarin. I haven’t been able to give it the time it needs to get to my goal of being able to have a basic conversation.
One of my goals is to travel around rural China but I doubt I will be able to do that without basic Chinese.
How to develop games. I bought some courses online that lead you through building your first few games, but I need the time do go through them.
I’m a content creator for a living, so right now I’m trying to grind and schedule out a months worth of uploads so I can have the free time to get started. I would love to learn how to make my own video games, and with tools like Unreal Engine and Unity it seems easier than ever before.
Guitar
Blacksmithing.
I don’t have the tools, space, time, or use for it; and yet it inspires me.
