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When was the last time you tried something new? What was it and what age range are you?

I'm trying to confirm a really common hypothesis and also I'm curious.

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

Does 'learning JavaScript' count? I started about a month or 6 weeks ago. I'm mid gen X (have to admit I'm in my fifties).
in reply to Kinetix

@Kinetix Were you compelled to in the context of your work or was it a voluntary endeavor out of curiosity?
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

Just a personal itch to scratch. Work-wise I'm doing new things all the time, many of which are not my forte at all.
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan Define "Something new"? I am pretty constantly learning skills and trying out stuff I've not done. But it's in a fairly small range of things I trust I like - mostly due to limits in free time, ya know.

If it's like "when was the last time you went wild and did a completely unknown thing" it would probably be "2019 when my first kid was born"

in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard I believe silverwizard, who lives in a cave & tries over 10,000 new things each day, is an outlier and should not be counted.

Something new could be a new food you've never tried any declination before, a new art medium that doesn't involve tools you're familiar with, a new activity you had never considered before or ignored/avoided...

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in reply to Hypolite Petovan

To me "trying something new" means "learning something new" whether it's a new cake recipe or something about myself. And I love to learn.

Sorry it's quite evasive.
If you'd like a more specific example the past few months my 47-y self has been trying to improve my tech skills to de-Google my phone and switch to Linux.

in reply to A Sweet Gentleman

@A Sweet Gentleman For me learning new recipes doesn't feel that new, it still is set in a familiar setting of cooking/baking, unless it's a recipe from a culture you aren't familiar with.

Same for tech, unless you've never used any of the tools involved with the new paradigm you are learning, it still feels too familiar to me to qualify as new.

in reply to Hypolite Petovan

Yes I thought about that.
I guess that's the thing: the more experience you have, the more likely you can relate a "new" thing to something you already experimented.

I used an EV for the 1st time a few weeks ago. For me it was a new experience but it's still within the "driving" wider one.

So, nope. Nothing new for me.😞

in reply to A Sweet Gentleman

@A Sweet Gentleman It's okay, you have been somewhat recently having one of the most trans-formative new experience one can have. 😉
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

I made up a meal today. I often make up meals -- so I don't know whether to consider this something new or a habit?