skill you learnt from a book

>>8131379
define 'skill'

>>8131380
Just loosely as possible. Built a web page. Learnt a language. Made a working shortwave transceiver. What ever

>>8131379
critical thinking
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lick a bitch's earlobe

Invisible by Paul Auster

I learnt Spanish and Latin through books, gonna try Russian soon.

I also taught myself C++ programming, though this proved a massive waste of time since I lack all other skills to make a video game.

It appears we don't learn many usefulthings from books

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>>8131379
Learned too see through the illusions of the world through the method of dialectical materialism by reading Hegel/Marx/Zizek.

Like... my God, it's pure ideology. And so on, and so on.

>>8133165
lel

Starting strength taught me how to lift

>>8131379
principles of stock market investing.
lots of technical stuff.
how to make a chocolate cake.
how to identify constellations.
how to kill a man and wear his skin as a grotesque mask.

persuasion/hypnosis

scott adams books (biography, gods debris, dilbert blog)

>>8131379
Machine Language for the commodore 64 and other computers
The C Programming Language
OpenGL Programming Guide a.k.a "The Red Book"
Math Primer For Graphics And Game Development (the newest edition is basically a text book from what I've seen of it)
Graphics Programming Blackbook
How to Prove It
Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus
Types And Programming Languages
Feynman Lectures

>>8131379
>Self taught not textbook in class.
Look at this guy with his fancy teachers who actually do something other than stand there and wax poetic about their anecdotal stories.

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Probably the most useful skill I've learned is how to build a fire easily. Instead of making the stupid tee pee that constantly falls over, just make a "log cabin."

The same book taught me that if I wanted to shoot down a jet, I should aim 600 feet in front of it, and if I wanted to shoot down a helicopter or propeller plane, I should aim 200 feet in front, but that I should not be surprised if "my new friend turns around and napalms me."

Also worms, grubs, and maggots have a lot more protons than other bugs.

>>8134469
You certainly do seem like an expert on bundles of sticks.

>>8131379
some books on gnosticism taught me to shun the material world for it is evil.

>And . . . the God you took from a printed book be with you, Tomlinson!

(:

>>8131379
definately improved my chess through chess books.

obviously this >>8131668

honestly i feel like i learn something in every book i read, for example i learned a lot about WW2 in the Tin Drum...

>>8134476
xD

>>8131379
Absolutely nothing practical except perception and critical thinking, which are both memes.

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Most shit in college is taught through books.
'Useful skill' is a meaningless phrase.

Outwitting the devil by napoleon hill
He change the way i thought about negativity, habits and that ego is our worst enemy.

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Everything I was ever taught by the Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbooks.

>>8134476
Underrated.

>>8134773

>Precautions to be taken in the case
>Of freak reincarnation: what to do
>On suddenly discovering that you
>Are now a young and vulnerable toad
>Plump in the middle of a busy road,
>Or a bear cub beneath a burning pine,
>Or a book mite in a revived divine.

have you read those books which nabokov mentioned here? :3

>>8134503
Which chess book do you think was the most helpful?

>>8134744
Thanks if there's anything else you can contribute that would be great. It sure will be hard to top this but I'm sure you have more where you got this from

Convincing dumb normies in a bar that I'm an acquaintance or relative of some sort so they invite me a drink or to eat. Learned from Spanish picaresque novels and it just werks.

>>8131379
I learned how to draw from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

>>8134869
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