| Learn a Dumb, Interesting, Skill to Easily Impress in Social Situations |
| Written by John Rozewicki | |
| Wednesday, 09 August 2006 | |
My Choice: JugglingA few months ago I taught myself to juggle. It wasn't particularly hard, it just took some time and a little research. I perservered through the initial stages and after about a week of practicing I was comfortably able to perform a 3-ball cascade; the simplest juggling move. Juggling is a very dumb, interesting, but also very impressive skill to have. It's not hard to learn, but it feels very impressive to people. Anyone can learn it. The initial learning curve is what puts people off. Beginners toss the balls up in the air and feel too overwhelmed to follow the pattern and move their hands the right way. It takes about 3 hours of practice before you get anywhere remotely impressive. Another 5 hours are spent getting comfortable and making sure your pattern is as regular as possible.Unintended ConsequencesJuggling was a skill I never really planned to use very much. I just like cool coordination things, and I have some progressed ADD that requires me to keep physically busy while sitting skill. I twitch my leg incessantly when sitting in chairs. Juggling is a slightly more productive and distracting version of the leg twitching. I can do it while listening to the radio, waiting to meet people for lunch, or watching television(juggling is mostly peripheral vision). I was at a weekend retreat recently where there was quite a bit of such downtime. I'm not a person that purposefully strolls over to people for the express purpose of striking conversation, and so I opted for juggling. Because of this I ended up talking to a few people I wouldn't have ordinarily talked to. I get nervous in social situations, but this time around the juggling made me less nervous for 2 key reasons. Firstly, juggling put the social load on other people in that situation. It was up to them to come up to me because I was juggling. I knew that if they came up to me that they were legitimately interested in talking to me. Secondly, juggling while I talked had a calming effect. I compared juggling before to other nervous habits I exhibit such as the leg twitching. They serve the same function; to blow off steam in stressful situations.Choosing a SkillI picked juggling, but you can choose any skill you find interesting. It's important to choose a skill that takes almost no talent, looks impressive, and takes less than 10 hours to learn. It just so happens that many parlor and carnival tricks fall in this category. There's innumerable little magic tricks you can do with ordinary household objects, and the internet is a great place to learn a nearly infinite number of them. The reddit response to this trick, here, was the inspiration for this article, and JuggleWiki is the best place to start for juggling information.Go To ItGo hit up Google. Learn that stupid thing you've been wanting to know how to do since you were 5. Use it as a fallback at parties, dates, etc. You'll look impressive to people around you, and I can guarantee it will make almost any awkward social situation a great deal easier.Trackback(0)
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