Occasionally, your company might organize seminars where you have the chance to engage in creative activities with your colleagues, like cooking, pottery, or escape games. These experiences often become cherished memories because they reveal new talents in both your team and yourself.

For children, every day is an opportunity to play and learn. They tell themselves stories, sing, and run, focusing all their energy on the activity at hand. As adults, we sometimes feel like we’re stagnating. Our grand transformation plans never seem to start, and our wish lists feel endless.

But with a small shift in mindset, you can find things to learn in just a few minutes. Before slicing a fruit you’ve never tried, you might check a tutorial on wikiHow. The same goes for fixing a toilet’s flushing mechanism.

Then there are fun activities to rediscover your abilities: learning to eat with chopsticks if you usually use a fork, folding basic origami, juggling, tying ties and knots, sketching, performing magic tricks, learning mental math, or trying to replicate a restaurant dish you enjoyed.

Don’t wait for the next seminar to surprise yourself.