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70 People Ages 5-75 Answer: What Have You Learned Recently?

We ask people of all ages, from children and teens to adults and elders, one question: what's something you've recently learned?

Released on 04/26/2017

Transcript

[Interviewer] What's something that you've learned

how to do recently?

I learned swimming class.

To ride a bike.

Surfing, and it was really, really easy.

Well, sing, and no, I actually,

yeah, I learned it.

I started learning how to act two months ago.

Well, I started taking Spanish.

Oh, I learned how to burp on command.

(burps)

I've learnt to ride a segway.

Learned how to eat with chopsticks.

Recently, I learned how to identify the stages of mitosis

in onion cells.

It's okay to say, no, sometimes, when you need to.

Chemistry.

Probably dance.

I mastered the subway system.

Clean, and take care of a space.

I learned how to sell an advertisement.

Trust myself.

To not second guess myself.

Use a screwdriver.

Reach out to friends that I really miss.

Video editing.

Aerial yoga.

Workout.

Manage my money better.

Manage a large team.

To be okay with where I'm at in my life.

Play Xbox, actually.

Aerial silk.

I've only learned to have patience recently.

Learned how to play the piano a little bit better.

Eat salad.

I have only recently learned how to do ballet.

I've learned how to lemon bars recently.

Today, I learned how to pump my own gas.

Cut the back of my own hair.

Be a husband.

Skateboard.

I just learned how to edit videos on Adobe Premiere.

Navigate the subways in New York.

Distilling bourbon, rye, and rum.

Pole dance.

Be firm with my son.

I started taking tap dances.

That patience is a virtue

that you are tested on continually.

You kinda can't teach an old dog new tricks.

I've not learned anything two weeks in. I'm sorry.

Surf. I just learned to surf last year.

Control my temper.

Relax. I'm still working on that.

Ride the subway.

Like myself.

Know myself very well,

and pursue things that I thought I never would.

I'm learning a lot of carpentry.

Act.

Not worry so much.

How to act. I'm still learning.

Figure out how to log on to the New York wifi system.

Sing and act.

I truly cannot think anything in the last couple of months

that I learned.

A few years ago, I started taking improv classes.

Have confidence in myself.

Juggle.

To go for my dreams.

I've learned more to take control at better of my own

work with regard to modeling,

because with Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram,

I'm getting a lot more bookings.

Let go of the past.

Let's see, well, I've relearned surfing,

but recently, oh, cooking.

I'm trying to learn how to play the French horn.

I've learned to act, actually.

I've only recently learned to ease up on my expectations

of other people.

I'm taking acting classes.

I've been on stage three times.

I did a few student films.

I joined a comedy troupe.

This is a whole new life for me.

I would never, never aspired to it,

and, but here I am, and absolutely love it.

Fly fish.

Act. If I've learned that, it's a second, third,

fourth career, at my age, coming back to this.

Something that I've loved for a long time.

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