This is my house and for the next who knows how long
Myself and millions of other people are gonna be locked in their homes with very little to do you know?
honestly for short periods of time I
Really? Enjoy
Being locked in a room by myself doing nothing
But when it turns into like two weeks
Three weeks four weeks things start to get very problematic, especially
If I don't have any work to do it usually goes like this
I'm excited to sit down and finally get to play some video games
I end up playing
Excessively for a week my bed time shifts just 3:00 in the morning and my meals become whenever my hand starts to shake
Then I fall into a pit of despair and question Who I am and what I've become
So I have a feeling that in a few days
There are gonna be a lot of people in the position of Who am I and what have I become?
And from my extremely biased position. I think that a
fantastic way to
Combat, this is to take this time that a lot of us have now been given and use it as an opportunity to
learn new skills
Learning new skills is rewarding. It's
Challenging it feels amazing
when you push through something that you're bad at and
finally get half decent at it and as a species we have never been more well equipped to
Learn new skills by ourselves locked in our bedrooms
I've been doing this channel for almost five years now, and I've learned over a hundred and fifty skills
so here's a quick list of some of the skills that I think could be cool to learn while also flexing your
Expertise at social distancing. Okay. So this is the video game that I
Spent over like I think it was like 200 hours making and through the process I learned about
Programming I understood a lot more about how computers work and it was just like such a positive experience. That was also like very
challenging and another cool thing is that it's completely free to do this and you can do it without
interacting with pretty much anyone
Another really cool skill that I learned recently. Is Morse code
I was able to memorize
The basic alphabet listen to it really slowly and communicate it really slowly in about two-and-a-half hours
And I mean if stuff hits the fan who knows this could be a useful
Tool in the future, hopefully not
Your animals are probably like freaking stoked that you're home all the time now
So maybe just to like give them even more attention?
Try training them to do cool stuff
But a year and a half ago, I trained one of my friends cats to launch a rocket
you don't necessarily have to train a cat to launch a rocket, but
Maybe I should train this cat
I know it's a poop on the carpet a skill that I learned just recently as how to
Properly sharpen knives and oh my god if you have never learned the skill
the joy I get from
cutting things with a super sharp knife is just
Incredible highly recommend learning the skills. You haven't it's quick. It's easy and
It's a super duper valuable skill that you can use literally for the rest of your life some other skills
You could learn would be how to break an egg with one hand learning how to juggle learning a new art form
learning how to solve a Rubik's Cube or learning a new language
One skill that I've wanted to learn for a long time is how to repair holes in my jeans
Properly I've never gotten good at it. So I'm just gonna do right now. So this is the hole
My mother helped me fix this side. And now I'm gonna try and fix this side. That's a thread a needle
So I have done some thread work before so this isn't
Like a totally new but the holes that I keep fixing on my own keep falling apart, so oh dang
Let's try
It we'll start from bottom
Really I just need to be as patient as possible at this I
Think it's looking pretty good
Okay, thirty minutes later the whole and my jeans is like
Basically fixed we'll see how long this holds but
Yeah, cool
The point is is that there are a million things that you can learn while you're trapped in your house that are fun
Keep you busy and are great for your mental health
this is a time to
Spend time with your family pet your animals
But I also think it's a great opportunity to learn some really cool really valuable skills
You can take with you for the rest of your life if you do end up learning something
Let me know in the comments down below. I'd love to hear about how it went. Stay safe. See in the next video