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The time from age fourteen to twenty-five is regarded as essential for developing your cognitive abilities. The prefrontal cortex is fully developed, enhancing the skills and intelligence you already acquire. It makes you learn and master things faster and more efficiently.

Below are the 11 easiest skills you can learn in your prime years.

1. Storytelling:

Learning how to captivate every person in a room with your aura, your words and the way you speak is important in every field of life. This skill can be acquired by reading, watching media and the structure of a good, compelling story. It can help you convince anyone and win anyone over your side.‍

2.Learn a new language:

People who have learnt more than one language are called polyglots. The Youlden Brothers, who have learnt multiple languages, have applauded two language learning apps called ‘Babbel’ and ‘Duolingo’ for the easy interface that lets them become proficient in a new language quickly. This activity makes your brain work constantly and it becomes a habit in your subconsciousness. ‍

3.Video Filming and Editing:

Five hundred hours of video is being uploaded to YouTube every single minute worldwide. This is why film editing and filming is one of the most useful and profitable skills. Content creators are constantly thinking of ideas and developing and planning them but most don’t have the liberty to make every video alone and that’s where you come in. Either filming or editing, both are very intensive tasks and need great focus but they’re easy to learn. Additionally, making content as a hobby has proved to be very therapeutic and relaxing.

4. Learn to Cook:

Cooking is falsely conceived as something extremely difficult to master (apart from cracking eggs obviously). It is one of the most reputable and useful skills to possess. Starting with recommended recipes, you can quickly get to the stage of experimentation. It may boost your confidence in your abilities as an independent person. Neurotic spices or vigorous tarts? Your command.

5. Learn to play a musical instrument:

Music can be pretty intense to learn on any instrument but learning how to play a song on an Ukulele or any other instrument is easy to do, in a week. Even after spending 20 hours only, you could know the whole tune to your favorite song.  It has very fascinating effects on your brain and psychic health.

6. Basics of coding:

The future is technology and media, whether we like it or not. Millions of job opportunities in the tech industry have opened up in recent years and many more are expected in the future as well. Being well equipped with the basics of coding like Java, Python can be very useful. It can help us be better equipped in any field we choose to work in.

7. Basics of tailoring:

The fundamentals of tailoring are easy to learn. You can learn about the kinds of fabric, which fabric is used for which clothing item. Learning how to make alterations is also very important. You can learn how to stitch any basic clothing item in a week’s time after all trials and errors.

8. Say the alphabet backwards:

It's easy to sing the alphabet backwards as the song has the same tune as the original alphabet. In your prime years, your frontal cortex is fully developed, which makes you smarter. It would also impress everyone you decide to sing it in front of.

9. Yoga

Thousands of video tutorials for yoga are available on YouTube. Yoga requires relaxing your muscles, letting yourself loose and exercising your psychic and mental nerves. It has numerous health benefits and can increase your lifespan as well.

10. Learn to ask the right questions

People can make you feel that asking questions is stupid, it actually means you’re smarter because you’re constantly listening and evolving as you clear up the complexities brewing in your mind. It makes everything clearer and you can delve deep into the matter with a greater understanding

11. Learn to solve a rubik's cube:

Rubik's cube masters possess the ability to solve the puzzle in as little as 10 seconds. You only need to be familiar with a few algorithms, often known as turn patterns, that rotate the cube's parts one at a time. In a week’s time, a novice can learn to solve a Rubik's cube in under two minutes. Not to forget the countless advantages you have when solving the cube exercises parts of your brain—it makes you smarter.