The Self Improvement Thread

That's really good news. I've done a few Monash courses myself and really enjoyed them. I also found future learn to be good quality on the whole.

Glad you're enjoying it. It shows you can still learn and that you enjoy the subject. It also shows your wife just how long suffering she's going to have to be 🙂

Well done.

That's a pretty damn impressive resting heart rate if you're not doing any kind of training. Dust off your hands, job done.

I went from high 80s to low 70s after changing job and moving away from a busy main road. Still lots of room for improvement though.

Yeah that's a good resting HR. Same as mine actually. High five heartbuddy.

Apparently my blood oxygen level is shite though, just read it at 91% which may or may not mean I'm about to die.

Well done mate. You should be proud of yourself. You've taken the time and money to learn something new and then proceed that you learnt it. More to the point, you enjoyed it. It's a hell of a lot better than turning into a TV zombie.

As for not being worth much, some of these courses count as UCAS points and even those that don't, you're learning stuff that will make a possible future degree that little bit easier.

Anyway, well done and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Starting to wonder if I'm too old to learn shit. Been doing Spanish the last couple few months and very little of it is going in.

I appreciate you're never technically too old to learn, but my brain definitely doesn't work like it used to.

Isn't just that particular subject, I don't seem to take anything in these days.

Had to retrain on some new aspects of my job in the last couple of years and it was just... none of this makes any sense.

Do I do that with more, or less alcohol?

I'm rambling but there might be one or two words there amongst the shit that helps.

Good luck, Wunty.

Writing’s ace. I’ve been involved in loads of cool projects so far this week

Psycho, there are people doing OU in there 90s, so it's possible. I agree it's harder as you get older, but that's as much because we're out of practice as anything else. Also, you might be leaving Spanish, but if you're not using it, it'll never stick. I went in plenty courses when I was young and never saw the kit until months later and barely recognised it. So get reading kids Spanish books or watching Spanish kids TV.

Musical instruments or a language are both the best things you can do to help your brain stay young. I'm going to get my violin dug out again, thanks Wunty. I might also start writing again. I was published (short stories in magazines) decades ago and then got married and that was that. I always wanted to be an author. I'll never be one now, but I used to really enjoy it. The ou creative writing course was great.

I like what Wunty days about clearing the stress from our lives. I've too much junk in mine which includes spending too long here. I want to help my youngest grow rock crystals and the chemistry set and finish my jigsaw and... Stuff. I'm getting no where fast and moaning about it. I've not looked at mandarin in ages and used to be reasonable at it. As you say, cut out the stress.

Yeah, I want to do everything too, but also have a shite job and when I'm not doing that I'm looking after my family and when I'm not doing that I'm sleeping or enroute to it.

I don't have much spare time, but if I didn't have to work, I'd do so much. That said, I just spent 80 hours on a game since Christmas, so actually I'm taking bollocks.

That sounds great man. Do you do fiction as well?

Ha ha. You're basically me I think.