My two are:

Making sourdough. I personally always heard like this weird almost mysticism around making it. But I bought a $7 starter from a bakery store, and using just stuff in my kitchen and cheap bread flour I’ve been eating fresh sourdough every day and been super happy with it. Some loafs aren’t super consistent because I don’t have like temperature controlled box or anything. But they’ve all been tasty.

Drawing. I’m by no means an artist, but I always felt like people who were good at drawing were like on a different level. But I buckled down and every day for a month I tried drawing my favorite anime character following an online guide. So just 30 minutes every day. The first one was so bad I almost gave up, but I was in love with the last one and made me realize that like… yeah it really is just practice. Years and years of it to be good at drawing things consistently, quickly, and a variety of things. But I had fun and got something I enjoyed much faster than I expected. So if you want to learn to draw, I would recommend just trying to draw something you really like following a guide and just try it once a day until you are happy with the result.

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    3d printing and even designing my own basic parts/items. Seems daunting as all hell to get right but honestly it wasn’t that bad to figure out. Fusion360 was a dream to learn. I’ve been trying to make the switch to freecad and struggling though. :(

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      Some things in fusion are just so much easier than in anything else I’ve tried.
      I’ve spent 15 minutes in freecad trying to make a simple chamfer on a 90dg corner to overhang so that the model wouldn’t nees supports, and it just would. Not. Work. The same took 4 clicks in fusion.

      I like FOS, but I’m not a masochist.

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        Same. Parts designed in freecad take me about 10 times longer and have about 1/4 of the “polish” and nice finishing touches compared to the ones I’ve done in fusion.