What side projects would you start/work on if you had one free hour every day?

Poltergeist-God · 2019-05-14T09:35:07+00:00

Probably grab a beer with some friends instead of burning my brain out in my free time

plumo123 · 2019-05-14T09:34:03+00:00

I would definitely put it into that business. There more you put in, the more you will get out of it. I mean, YT videos are cool, but will that get you anywhere closer to whatever goal you have?

PubicSalad · 2019-05-14T09:35:58+00:00

educational podcasts, these have helped me in conversation many times and are also very interesting to listen to.

relationship_padawan · 2019-05-14T11:05:30+00:00

Education. Organization. Goals.

Education: focus on anything TRP if you haven’t swallowed it. Re-read if you have. There is always something you can learn. Educate yourself to cultivate yourself into a better person. This doesn’t strictly have to be TRP; it can be anything that interests you so long as it improves you. You want to learn about Roman history and how Hannibal brought elephants across the alps? There’s a podcast for that. You want to learn about why the design of a can of soda is so amazing? There’s a documentary for that. Want to learn Stoicism? There’s a subreddit/podcast/books on that. Want to improve your general self as a man? There’s a podcast for that (I recommend KFM, it’s helped me a lot in my journey). Audible/YouTube/podcasts are your friend?

Organization: make you life easier and organize yourself. I wish I had more time every day to do this (and the discipline). Everything is easier when you’re organized. Things are cleaner. Your routine is more streamlined. Life gets easier in a pure logistical manner.

Goals: set goals and accomplish them. Setting goals is the crux of it all. Without them you will stall and do nothing. Daily and weekly goals. Having an hour a day to plan out the next day or week would be amazing. This could improve any part of your life: your business, your finances, your relationships, your self improvement, your health, your emotional state, etc.

iambecomechad1 · 2019-05-14T11:23:14+00:00

Use it to read the best historical books on mentality:

Machiavelli - The Prince Sun Tzu - The Art of War Miyamoto Musashi - The Book of Five Rings

Also Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

They make you into an internal tank.

TantalusOfTartarus · 2019-05-14T12:44:22+00:00

I'll tell you something that I do sometimes to mix things up: I'll spend 3-4 weeks at a time working on some random ass skill set that's usually not practical at all but that's just fun to learn and keeps me sharp.

A great example of this is origami. I spent about an hour a day 3-4 times a week just working through an instructional book learning different kinds of folds, making practice models with those folds and so on. All it cost me was like $10 for a pack of folding paper from Amazon. Tear off the bottom of a receipt and make a little mouse or something real quick to leave for a cute waitress when you're out with a girl. Chicks love that shit. "omg make me one"

Another good example is learning to quickly solve a Rubik's cube. You can actually learn to consistently solve one under a couple of minutes in like an hour or so. Once you're consistently under about 75 seconds, you only need to practice for maybe 10 minutes a couple of times each week to maintain that speed. If you see one out in the wild, just solve it without bringing any attention to yourself or acting like it's a big deal and just hand it to the girl like you don't even care. Chicks are like wtf just happened.

Speed solving sudoku puzzles is another random skill set you can learn, but there's not really much of an application wrt women there (not that you should be doing these things for women anyway).

tb0n · 2019-05-14T11:20:26+00:00

great question -- i find myself with more free time these days than I would like (at work mostly).

What I've been doing is using the time at work to read on my kindle -- mostly TRP stuff and stoicism. I also

At home, I use the time to make my apartment cleaner. I also meal prep.

Interested to hear others' ideas though.

ttann71 · 2019-05-14T16:29:18+00:00

Learning another language currently trying to progress through the basics of Italian

okt64073 · 2019-05-14T21:15:28+00:00

learn an instruemnt

Title	What side projects would you start/work on if you had one free hour every day?
Author	trp369
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Date	May 14, 2019 9:15 AM UTC (7 years ago)
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