Some of these I knew, and some I did not expect to be part of this.
Whenever people talk about their various hobbies, I always wonder how they stay consistent. Staying consistent with things has always been a tough skill for me to crack. And I realized it was not just me—many others also seem to lack this skill.
So when I came across this Reddit thread where aI went through the thread and picked out the best ones to read. Here are 21 skills that are likely to disappear into thin air if you don't practice them regularly:"Passing my 5 WPM was a nightmare for me because the dits and dahs all sound too much alike for me. I haven't touched it since getting licensed in 1988 and upgraded to general well after they dropped the code requirement. Nowadays when I hear code, it's just ordered noise to me. I know what repeater I'm listening to by its Morse ID, but I couldn't tell you what the callsign is off of just that." "As a former gymnast: flexibility. Strength is easier to keep around and less obvious as it leaves, but before you know it, you're trying to show your niece a cartwheel and need to walk it off, playing cool while dying inside since you just pulled a hammy.""I am not an athletic person by any means, but I am flexible. I'm in my 40s and walked on my hands and feet today from the living room to the bedroom upstairs to entertain my dog. The ONLY reason I'm still able to do this is because I am constantly doing stupid shit like this to entertain my dog." "Flying a plane. After a month off, your landings are going to feel pretty rough. After a year off, you need at least a few flights with an instructor before it’s safe to be flying again." "I was on a family vacation once where we met a couple who both majored in Spanish in college. 20 years later, neither of them had really used it, and they couldn't speak it much better than my fast food Spanglish... Except that when the wife got drunk, she became fluent in Spanish. Brains are weird.""I spoke French reasonably well as a child; as an adult, mostly just a few words here and there, unless I am drinking. Once I am past three or four beers, I become basically bilingual lol." "I recently looked at a spreadsheet I coded like six years ago after immersing myself and learning to do it. I have no idea what the expressions mean!""I have all my college notes from engineering school. I swear to god it’s my handwriting, but I have no idea what it says." "Boxing. It may surprise people, but learning to box is really teaching your mind to ignore your natural instincts when in a fight. You're ignoring adrenaline, anger, fear, etc., while trying to keep up a technique. Once you stop sparring for a period of time, you have to relearn how to control that all over again." "Social skills. I'm an extremely introverted person by nature and don't really experience loneliness the way other people do. Like at all. I can go a very long time without socializing, and I won't notice, much less be distressed... but then when I go back into the world, I realize I forgot how to interact with others. There have been a few time periods like this in life where I didn't even really notice how isolated I was at all until I was no longer. The skills eventually come back, but you really do drop a lot more of it and have to work harder to get it back than you'd expect if this has never happened to you before.""Yup. I went from having a job where I was talking to people six-plus hours a day to one where I’m talking maybe an hour a day. I’ve found that I’ve become more introverted and awkward in social settings. It’s like the exposure to people makes it easier to socialize." "Strangely, the answer is plain old 'balance,' especially as you get older. You can actually lose your sense of balance. Recent evidence suggests that balance is a mix of visual cues, input from the balance mechanisms in the ear, and proprioception sensors in the body. It was always thought that once you were old enough to be up and about and had sorted your balance, you'd be all good. Current evidence is that you need to get out and about essentially with forward motion that uses and lets your brain sync from all three sources, and it needs to be all three.""Yeah, there's a ton to memorize with chess, with all the openings and tricky scenarios. There's a certain floor where you'll be better than total novices, but you can't be remotely competitive if you don't remember all the stuff. Also, your ability to calculate diminishes." "Playing a musical instrument at a high level. You can tell the difference from missing a single day of practice." "The personal discipline to pursue any activity, especially anything mentally or physically strenuous. Skip something once, intentionally, and it's all downhill from there." "Surprisingly, gaming. I took an extended break from gaming due to life, then came back into it much slower than I previously was. I used to compete in shooters, but now I’m getting wiped by people I used to consider newbies. This applies to game knowledge too.""Yeah, I climbed four-plus days a week for two years and then moved and didn't get a chance to climb for four full months. I continued to work out five days a week, including ~400 pull-ups a week. I even did a small amount of finger strength stuff. When I finally climbed again, I'd regressed probably 20 months . Not quite so bad on the slab, but everything overhung/crimped/sloped/pinched felt awful. My forearms were pumped so quickly." "Critical thinking. It’s far too easy to slip back into just plowing ahead, not really noticing while you’re doing it.""A subset of intentional thinking, which also includes greats such as introspection and being able to think, 'Are we the baddies?' and deciding to change." "Running. I was once running long distance three or four times a week for months, then I stopped for a few weeks. When I went to run a 5k after that, it felt like I had never run in my life." "Writing in cursive... or just handwriting, period. I've been told my script is beautiful, and through years of not using it , I've noticed a severe decline. I have to really concentrate to make it legible. Sad, really." "Getting up off the floor. Losing that ability literally costs people their lives, yet no one talks about keeping in regular practice.""Mobility. People have literally fused to their couches. Being mobile after severe injuries is incredibly hard and not guaranteed to return." "Excel. I used to be so proficient at it and then didn't use it for four-ish years. Now I struggle with simple formulas. AI has been a huge crutch for me here." "Reading comprehension and speed. I used to read fast and well. Now I sit there rereading a paragraph like that kid in class everyone hated hearing read out loud."After going through these, I feel extremely exposed. I did not realize that I need to practice sitting on the floor and getting up regularly! I think we all need to work on ourselves and quit being so lazy.
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