1. Teach yourself to be ambidextrous. Doing normal things like brushing your teeth, hanging clothes, or stirring whatever you are cooking can become funny awkward opportunities for laughing at yourself. As a bonus you activate different regions of your brain.
2. Pick 3 items randomly out of your fridge and create a meal. For more risk have a friend or partner pick the items without telling them that they’ll be eating it for dinner. You can add other foods as well.
3. Find 10 things in your apartment or house that you like but do not need or use and gift them to others. I used to do this spontaneously and it always made my space feel fresh. Try giving things to random people as well as close friends, consider taking an item a day with you and giving it to someone during the course of your day.
4. Pick a word of the day and find places to slip it into conversation. Use it incorrectly at least once with someone you think will know the appropriate usage. Look them dead in the eye while using it incorrectly.
5. Make your way through the documentary section of netlix picking titles alphabetically. I started it awhile ago and had fun. Learned a lot about cognitive science, the Donner party, the evolution of corporate law, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gaudi, Walmart, etc. Information gained can double as conversation starting/stopping material, depending on who you want to start or stop a conversation with.
6. Have a conversation with a different part of yourself, or something you own that’s disappointing to you, and document it. Laugh, or cry or get angry. Here are a couple examples if you need help.
7. At least once a year break something on purpose before throwing it away. Office Space style. Dress up, or down, or costume inappropriately. Document. Potentially use as your Christmas card pic for that year with no explanation. Make sure to have other little inset pictures that are normal and make no mention of the zombie and unicorn destroying a toaster oven with baseball bats in what looks like your backyard.
Bonus:
8. Name a fly and pretend it’s a roommate, or a pet. Get annoyed by the buzzing, halfheartedly try to kill it, succeed unexpectedly. Feel guilty that you killed Oscar, start to miss the things he did that you once found annoying, like buzzing in your face. Contemplate how strange it is that humans can casually end the lives of other things.
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