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Post by dromas on Mar 5, 2024 5:39:05 GMT
All right boyz, listen up. This here is a thread for anything and everything relating to you being the best version of yourself. You learn a new skill? Post it. You working out? Share it. You do your duty as a man (or woman)? Tell us all about it in the thread below!
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Post by dromas on Mar 5, 2024 5:46:02 GMT
I’ll go first. Tonight as I do the dishes I’ve been learning about edible plants that grow in my local area. It’s giving me some important survival training, and I learned a little history in the process. Most of them I knew about. however, I found out about some berries that grow out here, and more importantly, I learned about a very important utility plant that I can use to make rope fairly easily.
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Post by Liquid_Boss on Mar 5, 2024 14:05:08 GMT
My hobbies center around mastery. So, there's a lot of self-improvement to be had. Namely, danmaku shooters (beating some lunatic modes), guitar (playing since '05/'06), and drawing. I've been putting a particular large amount of effort into drawing recently. I largely do scifi/robots. However, as you may suspect, I do draw foxgirls. June 2022  November 2023  And a robot for good measure February 2024  |
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Post by dromas on Mar 5, 2024 18:30:03 GMT
My hobbies center around mastery. So, there's a lot of self-improvement to be had. Namely, danmaku shooters (beating some lunatic modes), guitar (playing since '05/'06), and drawing. I've been putting a particular large amount of effort into drawing recently. I largely do scifi/robots. However, as you may suspect, I do draw foxgirls. June 2022 November 2023 And a robot for good measure February 2024 danmaku shooters teach you to challenge yourself. Getting better at playing the guitar helps you learn discipline. And as someone who used to draw, it takes humility to look at your own work. there’s a near bottom as well of self improvement tricks to be had when you take up an art form. Overall, a lot of good virtues to be had here. A good first post! |
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Post by Liquid_Boss on Mar 5, 2024 18:34:04 GMT
Thank you. All of them have a simple premise- you suck. However, with training and the help of God, you can get better. Enhancing your delay of gratification and that gratification being accomplishment is a wonderful thing.
You should share some of your local plant recipes. I never know when I'll get stuck in the woods.
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Post by basednrd on Mar 5, 2024 19:28:45 GMT
Honestly, and I'm ashamed, but I haven't done much to personally develop myself beyond some spiritual searching and finding the last 2 years. Every NYE, my wife asks me what I want for the new year, and I always say "do something creative for myself", but I never find the time. I'm always working and when I'm not, it's house or kids or cooking or errands. I find myself too exhausted to care about anything else.
But this year I'd like to finish a short story, or even make some headway on my novella trilogy concept. Or even work with my brother and finish one of our TTRPG game concepts.
I need to do something for myself, instead of spending all my creativity on everyone else. And I need to work out lol.
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Post by Liquid_Boss on Mar 5, 2024 19:37:20 GMT
You should find a developing hobby that helps you relax. The best are the kind that develop skills while letting you kind of zone out. Maybe crafting or building something? Model building also fits that niche well. Plus, it's the type of thing you could share with the kids.
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Post by basednrd on Mar 5, 2024 21:28:33 GMT
You should find a developing hobby that helps you relax. The best are the kind that develop skills while letting you kind of zone out. Maybe crafting or building something? Model building also fits that niche well. Plus, it's the type of thing you could share with the kids. Yeah I've always wanted to get into Gunpla, but honestly...I have no time for the level of dedication it takes (I'm a freakin perfectionist with these things), and I don't have the room for displaying (I have a 35sq ft cubby hole in my bonus room that is my "office/nerd space/man cave" lol). Hoping I get this small financial windfall I'm expecting soon; I'll be buying a new smoker/grill and getting back into cooking. I do love outdoor cooking. Grab the speaker, toss on some metal, toss meat on the fire, have a beer and a cigar. Finish off with some manga reading (or one of the 35 books in my backlog lol). I REALLY want to get back into writing, though. It's always been the one hobby I genuinely loved; not being able to do it makes me feel creatively off-balance, a bad thing since my entire career is built on being creatively badass lol. |
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Post by Liquid_Boss on Mar 5, 2024 23:04:32 GMT
You should get back to writing, then. Just kind of do it in the by and by as you go about your day. Restarting will be difficult, but maybe you'll get an idea that runs away on its own. The best kinds of hobbies are the ones where you get an idea and can't wait to try it out.
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Post by dromas on Mar 6, 2024 7:35:23 GMT
Honestly, and I'm ashamed, but I haven't done much to personally develop myself beyond some spiritual searching and finding the last 2 years. Every NYE, my wife asks me what I want for the new year, and I always say "do something creative for myself", but I never find the time. I'm always working and when I'm not, it's house or kids or cooking or errands. I find myself too exhausted to care about anything else. But this year I'd like to finish a short story, or even make some headway on my novella trilogy concept. Or even work with my brother and finish one of our TTRPG game concepts. I need to do something for myself, instead of spending all my creativity on everyone else. And I need to work out lol. Oh boy, where do I even begin with this one. Our boy basednrd has just dropped a treasure trove of opportunities into my lap. first and foremost, self improvement isn’t one specific grandiose task like writing an entire book, it’s a state of mind. Your kids, your job, your chores, even your mindset are all opportunities for self improvement. Wanna work out? Play with your kids. Want more energy? Incorporate better eating into your cooking schedule. your perfectionist mindset is keeping you from doing gunpla? Then that stigma is a mountain for you to conquer. And it will have effects down the line. I guarantee your perfectionism is going to be a hindrance in your writing. So let’s get started Tomorrow morning I want you to wake up and tell yourself that you’re going to buy a cheapo model, order it on Amazon or something. doesn’t need to be expensive, doesn’t need to be fancy. It just needs to be expendable and doable. The day after that, I want you to crack open that model. Every day pass that I want you to be working on that model a little by little, even if it means just putting on one piece. if it requires painting keep it simple, three colors max. When you’re done think about doing some simple model bashing. light armor damage. before you know it this will be a habit and you’ll be mech making like a pro, all because you took 10,000 baby steps. |
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Post by ツイン スモール Urufu on Mar 6, 2024 8:06:52 GMT
So I've been reading a lot lately. Trying to be better. On these two books at the moment,   I want to know my ancestors better, and I want to be better at guiding my descendants |
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Post by dromas on Mar 6, 2024 8:15:26 GMT
Thank you. All of them have a simple premise- you suck. However, with training and the help of God, you can get better. Enhancing your delay of gratification and that gratification being accomplishment is a wonderful thing. You should share some of your local plant recipes. I never know when I'll get stuck in the woods. Well, actually it’d be a desert if you got stuck out by me. Which brings me to today, self improvement. if you’re ever stranded And have literally nothing on you, you can purify water with a simple trick. 1: Find Clay. it’s basically everywhere and can be dug out of an exposed hillside fairly easily 2: Find water. in the desert, there are two ways to go about this. find a riverbed or find water intensive trees like oak. Then you start digging until you find water. 3: Wet your clay, and turn it into a basin by lining it over a small hole. 4: Make fire and start heating up some rocks. 5: Use sticks as tongues and put the rocks in the water filled clay basin. The rocks will boil the water and kill any harmful bacteria in it. |
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Post by dromas on Mar 6, 2024 8:24:42 GMT
Our boy Urufu has got a good one for us. Reading religious history is an excellent form of self improvement. if we don’t learn from the past, we doom ourselves to repeat it. And when the past you’re learning from is the development of ethics over the last 2000 years… well let’s just say there’s a lot of historical mistakes to be repeating.
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Post by Liquid_Boss on Mar 6, 2024 14:56:05 GMT
Thank you. All of them have a simple premise- you suck. However, with training and the help of God, you can get better. Enhancing your delay of gratification and that gratification being accomplishment is a wonderful thing. You should share some of your local plant recipes. I never know when I'll get stuck in the woods. Well, actually it’d be a desert if you got stuck out by me. Which brings me to today, self improvement. if you’re ever stranded And have literally nothing on you, you can purify water with a simple trick. 1: Find Clay. it’s basically everywhere and can be dug out of an exposed hillside fairly easily 2: Find water. in the desert, there are two ways to go about this. find a riverbed or find water intensive trees like oak. Then you start digging until you find water. 3: Wet your clay, and turn it into a basin by lining it over a small hole. 4: Make fire and start heating up some rocks. 5: Use sticks as tongues and put the rocks in the water filled clay basin. The rocks will boil the water and kill any harmful bacteria in it. I have clay in spades. Here, it's clay like a few inches below the surface. It makes digging an absolute pain. The part I would get hung up on is making fire. I need to learn to do so without matches or flint. Fire is just a massive piece of "technology." |
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