Video by jun_yuh

10 out of 10 habits to become disgustingly overeducated, but they become increasingly more niche. Mute your favorite TV show and narrate it scene by scene. You're training your brain to turn what you see into words in real time. Describe something in front of you until someone who couldn't see it could draw it exactly.

It trains your eye to catch the details that most people look past. Explain the most complicated thing you know like you're talking to a fifth grader. Where you get stuck is the part that you actually never understood because being smart isn't fancy words. It's making the complex simple. Read two completely unrelated books and find the common patterns between them.

Creativity is just connecting two things that nobody expected to belong together, and this is the perfect way to train it. Go to a park, pick a stranger, and imagine the hardest thing they may be struggling with. It's called Sonder, and the people who can do it have the most empathy and can read people better than anyone else.

Narrate your own life in third person for an hour. You sat down, unsure what to say, so you pressed record and started talking about 10 out of 10 habits. I know that sounds ridiculous, but psychologists call it self-distancing. And that distance is what lets you actually understand your life instead of just reacting to it.