Just a list of the sorts of things that I find to be / create stimulating or “high learning” environments (is there a better term for this?).
- Interact with an AI – even if not the latest – in a text based adventure game
- Subscribe to a newsletter (this one? this one? this one?)
- Start a newsletter
- Specialise in cooking a new cuisine
- Take up a new (contact?) sport
- Make a podcast
- Grow some food
- or some flowers
- Write until you get something published (by someone else)
- Write to someone you don’t know to ask them a question
- Design and build something with Lego by ordering the bricks you need
- Attend a lecture or seminar outside your area of expertise
- Explore a city not your own
- Try skateboarding as an adult
- Or a history not your own
- Repair something
- Find a new author or genre that interests you and read all their stuff (or the key texts)
- Or a film director
- Or a musician
- Do some foraging for wild food
- Or just learn to identify some trees
- Write down everything you know about a topic
- Find a collaborator for something
- Refresh your knowledge of knots
- Find ways to get and give feedback on something you do – and act on it
- Read an old book
- Do a course in something new
- Invent a game
- Build something (think wood, bricks, ceramic, metal)
- Learn about electronics with Arduino or equivalent
- Learn to program with Think Python
- Do something musical – on a physical instrument or in an app
- Perform something publicly
- Try out a new tool (any kind!) just to get an idea of what it’s for, how it works, and what’s possible
- Have a conversation with someone from a different place or generation in which you ask them lots of “What is/was it like?”-type questions
- Read an ancient story
- Spend half an hour doing nothing (that is, being still and thinking/meditating/praying) once a day for a week
What works for you?
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(“Had we but world enough and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime…“)