12 impressive skills, which can be purchased in a week

Contrary to popular belief, for the development of new skills do not require a lot of time. To achieve a decent level of proficiency possible in just 20 hours, doing a few hours a day for a week.

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1. Sing a song on a musical instrument

To study music theory and become a professional musician in just a week, of course, will not work. But this is quite enough to learn how to play a song on the ukulele and harmonica. Rare instrument will make a special impression on the audience.

At the end of performances TED Talks on business expert and writer Josh Kaufman played on the ukulele mix of well-known songs. For this purpose, according to Josh, it took only 20 hours of practice.

2. Drive the car with a manual transmission

If you have a car with automatic transmission, learn to ride on the mechanics. Who knows, maybe this skill will come in handy in the future when have to sit behind the wheel of someone else's car.

3. Collect the Rubik's cube

People who collect the Rubik's cube in just a few seconds, argue that this is no big deal. You just need to study the algorithm of the famous puzzle assembly, which is very easy to remember. Even if you are a beginner, this week you can learn how to assemble a Rubik's cube in less than a couple of minutes.

4. Tell interesting stories

storytelling - a skill that also needs to learn if nature has not endowed you oratorical talent. A good storyteller knows how to captivate the audience, enthusiastically telling a story, how to keep the audience's attention and when to stop.

5. parallel parking

Learn parallel parking is to anyone who wants to get a driver's license. But many have difficulty with this.

Week - it long enough to learn to this maneuver. And if you can make it one-handed, it just hit their skills alongside the seated passenger.

6. Cook a tasty dish

Bleed cooking skills just a week easy. Perhaps, then cooked meal will be your corona.

You can learn how to cook pasta with a fragrant sauce or the perfect steak. Serve it all with good wine - and voila! Memorable dinner ready.

7. Learn the basics of martial arts

Self-defense - is the one skill that people learn in the hope that it will never be useful to them in real life. However, this is a very important skill. During the week you can learn the basic maneuvers and self-defense techniques.

8. Remember the number π

Well, let this skill you do not come in handy, but the man that beareth heart plurality of first digits of π is impressive, is not it? For this memorize every day 6-7 digits after the decimal point, and daily repeat already learned.

9. Learn the basics of a foreign language

People who speak several languages, are called polyglots. Yulden Matthew and his brother Michael knows more than 12 languages, so they have the title giperpoliglotov. They were able to master the spoken Turkish in just one week.

As an assistant in the study of a foreign language spoken brothers use Babbel app, flash cards, media, movie, music, and other phenomena of mass culture.

10. Breaking an apple with your bare hands

Although this fruit is hard, there is a trick that will help break it without the aid of any tools.

First, remove the tail of an apple. Then take the apple so that the thumbs are on top, palms completely encircled the apple, and the tips of the other fingers were at the bottom of the fruit. Push hard on the apple, scroll in his hands.

This video clearly demonstrated how to do it:

11. Juggle

Even if you doubt your skill, this skill you will certainly be able to learn. The easiest way - start with juggling two balls. Toss them one by one, shifting from one hand to another. Juggle three balls are also quite easy: two balls in his hand, one in the air.

12. Learn the basics of sewing

During the week you will be able to learn a few basic stitches, learn to choose the fabric for the different types of clothing, use a sewing machine and take measurements. And in the future we can improve this skill and sew exclusive clothes with their own hands.