Skill learned this week: fishing!

Caught 7 fish in 7 days ✅

on paper it's one the most boring missions of the whole project.

sit by the water. stare at a rod. wait. repeat.

I went in assuming it would be a slow, dull week.

but here's what actually happens when you fish:

you have to watch the rod. that's the whole job.

and once your attention locks onto that one line in the water, everything else goes quiet.

the phone stays in the pocket. the mental to-do list shuts up. one task, one point of focus, for hours.

that's the skill hiding inside fishing: focus.

and I wasn't alone out there.

every spot had the… Italian uncles! :)

older guys who'd fished those waters for decades. they didn't ignore me, the new guy. they did the opposite.

showed me where to stand, what bait, how to read the water, types of fish. mostly we said nothing.

fishing gives you a reason to stand beside a stranger in silence

here's the value for you today:

we've made connection complicated. networking events, the right opener, the perfect dm. but the oldest form of connection is just doing a quiet activity beside someone.

if there's a skill you want to learn, go find the people who already do it in real life.

not a youtube tutorial. the actual humans at the lake, the gym, the workshop.

stand next to them. watch. ask one small question.

most people who are good at something are quietly happy to share it with someone who actually cares.

With my project 53skills.com I want to give you inspiration to try more things!!

Every week I explore 1 new skills to give you inspiration and practical tips to try cool s*it and make your life more beautiful.

You were not born to work, buy and die.

Second: we delete boredom on instinct now. every empty moment you look at a screen. but a lot of good things are inside a task that looks boring from the outside.

so ask a sharper question. boring to do, or boring to watch?

not the same.

watching someone fish is boring.

fishing is not.

watching someone read, train, build. boring.

doing it is where the reward is.

Also some fishing therapy science:

natural settings restore the attention that screens drain, and a 2019 study of nearly 20,000 people linked two hours a week in nature to better health and wellbeing.

one long trip or a few short ones, both count. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44097-3

reply and tell me:

you ever tried fishing?

what skill should I learn this week?

Short fun moment:

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- Alex