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Agreed! The people I knew who had the deepest and most varied skillsets were:
That's all it really takes. Sounds easy but it's not.
Its weird, being smart can also bite a person in the ass in this respect. If you are a ruminator or over analyze you'll spiral yourself away from trying new stuff at a hair trigger.
Trying new stuff is also acquiring a new skill. It can also help you get your mind off of something.
This is subjective, you have to spend some time to be somewhat proficient in whatever skill, but you don't have to be a master carpenter to screw two pieces of wood together.
Yeah, I remember the first time I tried archery in a VR game. I sucked so bad. But I kept going for 10 hours anyway. I still sucked so bad... but then I went to bed and woke up in the morning and it had all sunk in while I slept. I was immediately pretty good at it then, literally over night. But I had to put in the 10 hours of sucking. Hard to do. I have now put about 100 hours into that character and I pretty much never miss a shot within 50 meters.
Other skills take way longer. Archery in VR limits alot of variables, no draw weight, the arrow knocks to the same place every time, and the string draws to a fixed max pull back distance. So every shot is the same power level and the arrow flies out at exactly the same horizontal and vertical offset. So it's actually a pretty relatively easy skill to pick up.