Learn a New Skill — One Session a Week — 60-Second Protocol

23s · captions burned in · sound on

practice · 2026-10-18

Pick a skill you have never tried, and book one session a week for it.

Choose one skill you have never tried and that asks something of your brain — a language, an instrument, photography, quilting, a new craft — and book one practice session a week for it. Pick something genuinely new and demanding rather than a hobby you already know well. The National Institute on Aging notes that learning new skills may help keep older adults cognitively healthy, and one study of adults 60 and older found that sustained engagement in cognitively demanding, novel activities such as quilting or digital photography enhanced memory function more than socialising or less demanding activities. Keep it enjoyable; the point is steady engagement, not performance.