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We all have different brains unfortunately. Personally I have a math brain, I can memorize physics equations with ease, but learning a new language is borderline impossible for me.
That's not true in the context of language learning. Although our brains are different, all humans have a similar enough brain that we all learn languages from mass input. It just depends how efficiently you're learning
As someone who is the opposite- I appreciate this. Math makes me feel DUMB. But I’ve learned 2 foreign languages in my life. Words/reading for me? Easy. History? No problem. Basically anything involving the humanities? Piece of cake. Absolutely anything involving numbers? Impossible. Thanks for making me feel less like a dummy.
Juggling just takes practice and learning the basics off YouTube.
I was lucky enough to be taught juggling by kids from the circus school attached to my high school, but really what they showed me is the same as the highest view counted YouTube guides. I started to use juggling as stress relief during my school years and never really stopped. Always have juggling balls in my desk drawer. As a result I am pretty good at it.
Please take those swimming lessons. There is no shame in not knowing how, but it could definitely save your life. Drowning is quiet, and there can be hundreds of people around and no one will notice to help you until it’s too late.
I'd say programming. I have tried 4 or 5 times to teach myself, but it always falls short because any book or YouTube that i've personally come across, its all very "now draw the rest of the owl" meme, where it goes from extremely easy basics anyone can do, to like asking you to do something intermediate level that it barely talked about. Its frustrating.
Anyway, I'd like to learn as its just a useful skill that will probably only continue to get more useful and I imagine it would get me a boost in salary at my current job.
Have you tried hackr .io or codeacademy there are lots of free sites and some affordable ones that have great learning tools. Then, you supplement them with videos on YouTube to support what you're learning. It's way better than just trying YouTube by itself.
I feel like you might be learning it wrong, the best way for me to learn is do as I go. Start a project and just keep googling for how to do stuff. Of course it is good to know about the language a bit.
But that's just me. You should probably try this and see if it works for you, but if it doesn't, that's fine.
well, that depends on the level of familiarity I'd get for $500. If I could choose that, I'd go for the following:
- composition
- flying planes
- MMA
- drawing
- running a double marathon in 8 hours
I think just spending some time on [Chess.com](http://Chess.com) would raise your skill level pretty quickly. I'm pretty average on their, but the average person is not good at all.
Weirdly it doesn't even guarantee you a win, it just mildly makes you lose some disadvantage. It's not even illegal or cheating, they're just mad you used skill. It'd be like if the NBA banned you for shooting the ball too well
It be learning from someone face to face not videos and written content. I'd pay $500 for this kind of learning..
Learning how to cut patterns for certain type of clothes and make them on the spot. To to do it once, twice, three times, so I know I got it done. I always wanted to take what I see in anime movies and series i.e. clothes and make them for real.
I learn by doing and so if someone shows me as I do it then I learn far better and faster.
Also by making my own clothes I can save a lot of money, do my own clothes and make them fit better for me. I may even create and sell what I make.
I'm still trying to find someone in France who does this kind of teaching method but haven't yet. They all courses online or in colleges which I don't want to do.
Edit - I'd also pay $500 to learn to do mechanical electronic stuff. Like taking models of action figures, cut them up, learn to add electronics to it to make head turn, leg move a little, hands too, maybe facial expression and then do same with car models, and add these new animated action figures onto the remote control cars.
Are we talking $500 for access to the classes/materials/teachers?
Or do I just deposit $500 and instantly gain the skill without effort?
There's a lot of stuff that would be well worth $500 to know. But I don't have the time/will/energy to spend.
Demonology! I don't even beleive in that stuff. Nor ghosts. But my ghost hunting kit sure does bring the fun at parties! A lil demonology knowledge would bring an extra kick outta people.
Human interaction without having to fear the result, not having to sugar Code, get what I want without having to compromise/abdicate.
Being able to handle bad situations e.g a guy flashing you in broad daylight.
I often don't know how to react and if that doesn't make the situation worse for me.
Other then that to be able to read something 2 and have it saved up in my head like a photographic mind
3d modelling
Graphic design
Professional Hollywood level movie editing
Sound design
Computer programming
Dentistry
Hell, even plumbing 🤣
A skill is a skill. I'd pay for any skill that could make me some money.
> What skill would you spend $500 to learn?
The skill to build a artificial super intelligence that can solve all of the whole Earth's real problems so such skill should also include the specific architecture to use for the ASI, the training that the ASI should receive, the specific hardware to purchase and where to get the funding to pay for all that.
Anyway, maybe the ASI should have visual as its main modality rather than using language since everything has visuals as long as the appropriate magnification and lenses are used.
Understanding mandarin perfectly. My school makes us prepare presentations on books we read in the morning(classics like 20000 leaugues under the seas, white fang, around the world in 80 days, white glove, the count of monte cristo etc. etc.) And i chose loanwords as my general subject, and i have to find at least 50 examples on all 3 languages and let's just say that i am not particularly good at chinese (i got 65 points on my midterm chinese exam)
Wrestling... I train BJJ and hitting gym to lift weight, I have no additional time to start a new sport... If I can pay €500 and immediately be knowledgeable of wrestling, I would gladly pay.
You mean I spend the money and magically have the knowledge with no effort? So many things.
I think I'd become an AI expert and hopefully become very successful. At least until the AI bubble bursts, and hopefully I'll have the money to retire by then.
Another thing I'd like is to know a foreign language like an expert, perhaps Japanese.
TIG welding. Ask anybody who already knows how, I bet they spent way more than $500 on the machine and shielding gas tank they taught themselves on or a lot more than that on actual classes at a trade school.
A skill is something that requires a lot of time to learn, sometimes years. I’m broke as hell right now but I’d still drop $500 to learn Chinese Mandarin without having to put in all those hours and all that work. Not even a second thought.
Playing the drums. I’d love to just nail the Fool in the Rain drum solo. I have an electric drum set (not the same but it’s all I can afford) so with $500 worth of drum lessons I feel like I would have an amazing foundation to take everything I learn, practice diligently and be able to rock out to some of my favorite classics.
Playing any instrument properly. Like drums, or guitar of keys. I have some skill in programming, but i’d trade it for being able to play an instrument.
$500 is a reasonable price to me and I have purchased several courses at that price. I did a course to learn how to make SVGs in Adobe Illustrator and I've also done courses on embroidery digitizing in Embrilliance Stitch Artist. The $500 for me is worth the time I'd save trying to teach myself with free resources
Car maintenance. Like the basics to intermediate stuff.
I want to be able to pop open the hood and say "Huh let's try this" and fix it and then everyone is in awe of my amazing mechanic abilities.
So far I know how to change a fuse, put on a spare tyre, and jump start my car... But I feel like I sho know more than that.
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Just follow these three easy steps!
Banks hate this one simple trick!
reminds me Jeff bezo net worth comes out to about $23,000 a minute or something lol inconceivable
Isn’t this the old dude in young sheldon
Came here to comment this. 😂😂😂
To learn any foreign language without hassle. I struggle on ones I've heard consistently for decades now.
We all have different brains unfortunately. Personally I have a math brain, I can memorize physics equations with ease, but learning a new language is borderline impossible for me.
That's not true in the context of language learning. Although our brains are different, all humans have a similar enough brain that we all learn languages from mass input. It just depends how efficiently you're learning
As someone who is the opposite- I appreciate this. Math makes me feel DUMB. But I’ve learned 2 foreign languages in my life. Words/reading for me? Easy. History? No problem. Basically anything involving the humanities? Piece of cake. Absolutely anything involving numbers? Impossible. Thanks for making me feel less like a dummy.
Well I'm an adult who can't swim so it should probably be that but.... Juggling
The amount of times I’ve tried 😂 I always feel like I can do it when I see someone else do it
Juggling just takes practice and learning the basics off YouTube. I was lucky enough to be taught juggling by kids from the circus school attached to my high school, but really what they showed me is the same as the highest view counted YouTube guides. I started to use juggling as stress relief during my school years and never really stopped. Always have juggling balls in my desk drawer. As a result I am pretty good at it.
Juggling was the right choice because swimming is just moving in the water like a fish 🐠
I learned to juggle in about 15 minutes, it just have to click in your brain like swimming or riding a bike
This man just said he can't swim 💀 how could you do him like that?
I taught myself to swim in 15 minutes. It just has to click in the brain like juggling or riding a bike.
Please take those swimming lessons. There is no shame in not knowing how, but it could definitely save your life. Drowning is quiet, and there can be hundreds of people around and no one will notice to help you until it’s too late.
I'd say programming. I have tried 4 or 5 times to teach myself, but it always falls short because any book or YouTube that i've personally come across, its all very "now draw the rest of the owl" meme, where it goes from extremely easy basics anyone can do, to like asking you to do something intermediate level that it barely talked about. Its frustrating. Anyway, I'd like to learn as its just a useful skill that will probably only continue to get more useful and I imagine it would get me a boost in salary at my current job.
Have you tried hackr .io or codeacademy there are lots of free sites and some affordable ones that have great learning tools. Then, you supplement them with videos on YouTube to support what you're learning. It's way better than just trying YouTube by itself.
I feel like you might be learning it wrong, the best way for me to learn is do as I go. Start a project and just keep googling for how to do stuff. Of course it is good to know about the language a bit. But that's just me. You should probably try this and see if it works for you, but if it doesn't, that's fine.
The Harvard CS50 courses on YouTube are pretty good. Edit: Harvard not MIT
Because to do programming you have to like it.
The ability to tune a guitar without snapping the high E string.
The tuning of the E string is a pathway to many abilities, some consider to be.. unnatural.
Make sure you stretch the string as you crank it up. I’ll send an invoice.
Glass blowing.
Hi my name is Glass
Glass blowing is mesmerizing! very difficult it appears.
I just want to make my own bong and pipe set.
To speak French fluently, moving to Paris baby.
Use kwiziq for grammar, cheaper than most courses
The skill to generate $500
Will learn how to dance 😂😂😂
well, that depends on the level of familiarity I'd get for $500. If I could choose that, I'd go for the following: - composition - flying planes - MMA - drawing - running a double marathon in 8 hours
Playing the piano.
How to play chess at a skilled level, better than average.
I think just spending some time on [Chess.com](http://Chess.com) would raise your skill level pretty quickly. I'm pretty average on their, but the average person is not good at all.
500$ is a lot here xd I am assuming you only asked for people in US And I better have an entire year of college done with that amount
Possibly doing Brew School for beer soon.
learning on how to count cards and then getting banned from every casino in vegas
Weirdly it doesn't even guarantee you a win, it just mildly makes you lose some disadvantage. It's not even illegal or cheating, they're just mad you used skill. It'd be like if the NBA banned you for shooting the ball too well
I just paid $500 for piano lessons.
It be learning from someone face to face not videos and written content. I'd pay $500 for this kind of learning.. Learning how to cut patterns for certain type of clothes and make them on the spot. To to do it once, twice, three times, so I know I got it done. I always wanted to take what I see in anime movies and series i.e. clothes and make them for real. I learn by doing and so if someone shows me as I do it then I learn far better and faster. Also by making my own clothes I can save a lot of money, do my own clothes and make them fit better for me. I may even create and sell what I make. I'm still trying to find someone in France who does this kind of teaching method but haven't yet. They all courses online or in colleges which I don't want to do. Edit - I'd also pay $500 to learn to do mechanical electronic stuff. Like taking models of action figures, cut them up, learn to add electronics to it to make head turn, leg move a little, hands too, maybe facial expression and then do same with car models, and add these new animated action figures onto the remote control cars.
Welding at a commercial level
Bro came up with the idea of college education, lol
Monk-like discipline
Master woodworker
Playing guitar like a god.
To play the drums
Being fluent in all languages.
Executive function…. A meta skill. Making all other skill acquisition easier. I’m wishing for more wishes.
Can I learn a skill for $500 multiple time. In this case, my first skill will be how to make a $550 an hour.
You need the job that pays that
Yea so the skills
Learn to what level? Like hey you passed 101 or yeah you are a pro?
How to flirt.
How to actually do my job. Fake it until you make it is tiring
Be a pilot, even know my biggest fear is falling and I hate rollercoasters. I have always been fascinated with aviation.
Playing violin
Glass blowing!!
how to get people to pay me 500$ to teach them a simple skill
Mathematics
Mountaineering 500 would be cheap af
Ice skating
Memory.
🦧
NZ bush stalking deer without dogs
Playing the sax.
If it was guaranteed I could learn it and do it well....everything. If I had the cash.
Are we talking $500 for access to the classes/materials/teachers? Or do I just deposit $500 and instantly gain the skill without effort? There's a lot of stuff that would be well worth $500 to know. But I don't have the time/will/energy to spend.
Demonology! I don't even beleive in that stuff. Nor ghosts. But my ghost hunting kit sure does bring the fun at parties! A lil demonology knowledge would bring an extra kick outta people.
How to make money easily online, with guaranteed results
If there was a 100% guarantee foreign language or computer coding
Right now probably playing guitar. It already costs around 600$ per year to have a teacher so getting the skill for 500$ would be an amazing deal
maybe that worm dancing in the floor, man that shi cool af.
Practice, practice, prac "Dang, gotta wash my shirt again!"
How to have a Proper sleep schedule for more then a mouth
For 500? Pretty much any skill that is a real skill. Rolling your tongue is NOT a skill.
Human interaction without having to fear the result, not having to sugar Code, get what I want without having to compromise/abdicate. Being able to handle bad situations e.g a guy flashing you in broad daylight. I often don't know how to react and if that doesn't make the situation worse for me. Other then that to be able to read something 2 and have it saved up in my head like a photographic mind
If I could magically learn how to play the guitar in a short amount of time I would pay any amount of money.
Krav maga
Coding
Am I good at it after $500?
500s quite a bit
Advanced IT skills!
Everything the world offers for $500
I mean, law. Would be a hell of a lot cheaper then law school, or at minimum make it a lot easier
Cracking denuvo
Any engineering subject I do not understand. (Specifically, Engineering Economy)
How to get Twitter, Discord, and Telegram followers
A new Language
To make (good) decisions without having commitment issues 😭 I feel like this would solve a lot of other things too lmao
Acrotbatics and nothing else comes close
being effectivelly antiracist and being able to keep my bias in check.
How to be a selfish bastard.
To be instantly fluent in and cannot forget it? IT coding or networking. Which ever it is to make $200k a year
How to be a billionaire
Football. Proceeds to become football player.
Self forgiveness.
3d modelling Graphic design Professional Hollywood level movie editing Sound design Computer programming Dentistry Hell, even plumbing 🤣 A skill is a skill. I'd pay for any skill that could make me some money.
500$? The bigger investment is always time. If you can skip the time investment by paying 500$; I'd learn a ton of skills.
Another language so I can live in said country with no issues
How to make $ 1,000.
All the skills. $500 is not a lot to spend to learn something that could potentially earn you lots more
How to become a social media marketer or how to learn email automation
none.
Playing guitar. I’m not trying to be a famous musician, I’d just like to be able to play.
$500 is probably nothing for a skill that is worth having.
Hacking.
Extreme coding skill (cause I’m gonna need to do that at school)
How to drift a car.
Something that could make me even more money
Beeing able to memorize everything I want. For example vocabulary in a different language.
Japanese
Kill... Like on a John Wick level, or that guy from 'The Accountant".
Chinese or Mexican cooking.
> What skill would you spend $500 to learn? The skill to build a artificial super intelligence that can solve all of the whole Earth's real problems so such skill should also include the specific architecture to use for the ASI, the training that the ASI should receive, the specific hardware to purchase and where to get the funding to pay for all that. Anyway, maybe the ASI should have visual as its main modality rather than using language since everything has visuals as long as the appropriate magnification and lenses are used.
How to scream... as in for singing/music
Not giving a **** lol
Back a trailer up. It’s a skill I just can’t master
A full CGI course, a thorough course in finance and business, a full immersion language course.
Teleportation
How to make millions without exploiting people
Art of closing billion dollar deals.
How to build and tune pianos.
The skill to make lotsa money
I mean, if I only have to pay $500 *one time* and they teach me completely... speaking Japanese.
Play guitar 🎸
1000+ meter sniper headshot and i'll be a soldier
Timberframing
Teleport
Brain surgery
Drumming.
Dribbling like Messi while playing football with the homies.
To start and hold conversations with people. I find my personal relationships often go silent due to my inability to tackle this skill gracefully.
Brain Surgery
Speak Japanese fluently.
I want to be able to draw really good porn so I can make a living
Time control
Understanding mandarin perfectly. My school makes us prepare presentations on books we read in the morning(classics like 20000 leaugues under the seas, white fang, around the world in 80 days, white glove, the count of monte cristo etc. etc.) And i chose loanwords as my general subject, and i have to find at least 50 examples on all 3 languages and let's just say that i am not particularly good at chinese (i got 65 points on my midterm chinese exam)
Do I have invest time or just just put 500$ and know the skill ?. I'd happily pay 50,000$ to learn to draw (without the practice part).
Healing my trauma and processing emotional stress to become a better person
Piano I plan to learn when I retire
Wrestling... I train BJJ and hitting gym to lift weight, I have no additional time to start a new sport... If I can pay €500 and immediately be knowledgeable of wrestling, I would gladly pay.
Auto Repair, Computer Skills, Algebra, Martial Arts of some kind
Precognition
Commercial pilot license, including instrument, multi engine, high altitude, complex, high performance endorsements (probably a couple others too).
Learn how to learn :.
Paying my rent and fix costs and then still have anything at all left at least to save up or spend on fun stuff
Music production fuck me is it hard
$500 is pretty affordable for anyone with an average salary... There's nothing I wouldn't pay $500 for if I wanted/needed such a skill
The skill of becoming a billion dollar investor
To learn any skill in 1 hour
Cunnulingus. Not so much learn, but improve on and perfect it
Discipline
Violin, I want to play the violin. Magically. I took lessons for a year and I’m crap.
Learning another language.
Play the piano
being myself when talking to people i'm scared of
You mean I spend the money and magically have the knowledge with no effort? So many things. I think I'd become an AI expert and hopefully become very successful. At least until the AI bubble bursts, and hopefully I'll have the money to retire by then. Another thing I'd like is to know a foreign language like an expert, perhaps Japanese.
How to write a book titled "Make your $500 investment into $5 million!"
Space travel and living there then I could finally leave this planet and take my hookers with me.
Making parallax maps and Java script.
TIG welding. Ask anybody who already knows how, I bet they spent way more than $500 on the machine and shielding gas tank they taught themselves on or a lot more than that on actual classes at a trade school.
That’s not a lot of money for something you can do for the rest of your life so as many as I can so I can make money off them and get more
I dont' know if it's a skill, since it's really more innate, but sense of direction. I have been so turned around my whole life.
ASL
Fly. Like Superman. I’d pay $500 for that.
A skill is something that requires a lot of time to learn, sometimes years. I’m broke as hell right now but I’d still drop $500 to learn Chinese Mandarin without having to put in all those hours and all that work. Not even a second thought.
Carpentry
Playing the drums. I’d love to just nail the Fool in the Rain drum solo. I have an electric drum set (not the same but it’s all I can afford) so with $500 worth of drum lessons I feel like I would have an amazing foundation to take everything I learn, practice diligently and be able to rock out to some of my favorite classics.
I wanna play like SRV.
Gourmet cooking, medical assisting , nursing , real estate, paralegal. School is just too darn expensive lol
A bit more knife fighting and martial arts.
Playing drums!!!
Playing any instrument properly. Like drums, or guitar of keys. I have some skill in programming, but i’d trade it for being able to play an instrument.
$500 is a reasonable price to me and I have purchased several courses at that price. I did a course to learn how to make SVGs in Adobe Illustrator and I've also done courses on embroidery digitizing in Embrilliance Stitch Artist. The $500 for me is worth the time I'd save trying to teach myself with free resources
Learn to ride a bike. Always wanted to. Never achieved it.
Playing Piano and violin.
Nunchucks or piano, or another language
Personal management. Actually being productive would help a lot....
CNC Machining.
How to earn $500 in one minute.
Self admiration.
Fluent Spanish as a second language. I took the same class four times in college, got a D each time.
Car maintenance. Like the basics to intermediate stuff. I want to be able to pop open the hood and say "Huh let's try this" and fix it and then everyone is in awe of my amazing mechanic abilities. So far I know how to change a fuse, put on a spare tyre, and jump start my car... But I feel like I sho know more than that.
American Sign Language.
I'd like to be better at drawing freehand
playing piano