For the past couple of months I've been working on posture, physique, inner-game, tonality, etc. to help increase my SMV. While I'm happy with my dramatic improvement with women because of this, I don't want to stop improving/stagnate.

I recently listened to Emergency by Neil Strauss on Audible about his journey to become self-reliant due to his realization that he was raised without many practical skills (I recommend giving it a listen if you were raised beta like me). While listening I decided to learn a few of the skills he mentions in the book such as how to skin animals, lockpicking, self-defence, etc.

What I've learned from this is that women love men who possess practical skills. Cooking has probably been the one that's gotten the most attention as I regularly have stew cooking which makes my apartment smell amazing. I also like that they tend to come up naturally in a conversation as opposed to most DHV stories. Cooking smells alert women to your skill, and I've noticed girls ask a friend where they got a new shelf only to discover he made it himself (going to have him teach me woodwork soon).

So I'd like to ask which practical skills you recommend and the best ways to go about learning them? By practical skills I mean skills focused less on internal self-improvement and more on ways to immediately improve one's position. I've noticed these skills help build upon confidence and self-assurance, but haven't been able to find many besides what The Art of Manliness offers.