You’re just trying to stir up entropy.
Basic household electrical repair (light switches, lamp fixtures, extension cords, etc.)
If you learn any of those things in two hours, you will suck at them.
This is an example of something where you need to have some aptitude. These are things I couldn’t learn in two decades, much less two hours. I’d burn the house down if I tried. That’s why the trades, while a great option for many, aren’t for some.
Change the oil in your car.
[I accidentally typed “cat.” Couldn’t do that in 2 hours.]
It’s tough to spatchcock a chicken, milk a cow, sew and make bread at the same time. But a bread machine helps a lot, and the latest generation are wonderful.
Riding a bicycle? Can that be taught in two hours or less?
I have performed all recommended oil changes for all the cats in my life, and the total time required has been well under 2 hours.
How long does it take to learn first aid for the person who changed the oil in their cat?
Depends on just how bad a shape the cat leaves you in. It might take more than two hours just to perform the first aid.
Machigning.
And spelling
How to file a simple tax return.
If you go to H&R for a 1040ez you are a moron.
In reality there are no skills one can learn perfectly in two hours that don’t rely on building on other skills previously mastered. The things I mentioned, for example, one could learn how to do them in that time, from a good teacher, to the point that you could go on with them alone and really master them.
I have found that there is an optimal way to do virtually everything, and the only method for getting to that point, at least for me, is to make mistakes and correct them. Do something enough times and you will be able to make almost every possible mistake. That’s the essence of becoming an adept. Much of developing a skill is learning how to solve the problems inherent in it as they arise. Since those arise over repetition, you can’t really put it on a schedule.
“Skill learned” is a distant prize on the horizon for most if not all of the two-hour suggestions here. But the parameters are extremely vague. To take an example, I have butchered a large number of game animals, and I’m pretty skilled at it. When I first started, I could gut, skin and dismember game, but was I useful? No - it took me ages to do a crappy job. No-one would’ve paid me to do it. Two hours was spent just in preparation to do that slow and crappy job, and to actually start practicing to acquire a skill.
Excellent advice. Thank you!
I have performed all recommended oil changes for all the cats in my life, and the total time required has been well under 2 hours.
Better give me the instructions QUICK, as I have neglected to change the oil in my furry tigers. Other fluids, yes, but not oil. Meowtigrade, I assume?
(Opps, the pun section is down the corridor.)
Some very basic First Aid.
Seems to me both your suggestions could be easily combined.
Basic First Aid? A B C.
A do they have an airway?
B are they breathing?
C is blood circulating?
Barenaked intro to Microsoft Access. I have an advantage in having experience with other Databases.
Thing is, I need one-on-one tutoring. I need someone in the room with me, watching me mess up. So far, Access has pretty much kicked my butt…