Part 5
Questions 21-26
For each question, choose the correct answer.
New Skills Year
At the start of last year, I made a decision. I would 21 a new skill every month. Not big things like learning a language or playing an instrument. Small, practical things. I began with bread baking, which sounded easy but turned out to be surprisingly difficult. My first loaf came 22 of the oven looking like a stone. I almost gave up completely. But I tried again the next weekend, and this time the bread actually rose.
In February, I moved on to basic plumbing. My kitchen tap had been dripping for months, and I had always 23 for someone else to fix it. I watched three online videos, bought a small wrench, and fixed it in twenty minutes. The sense of satisfaction was huge. I realised that most skills are not about talent. They are about being willing to 24 a mistake and try again.
By summer, I had learned how to sew a button, change a bicycle tyre, and write a simple thank-you note by hand. None of these things made me a different person. But 25 the end of the year, something had changed without me noticing. I stopped feeling helpless when something went wrong. I started believing that I could figure things out. And that, more than any single skill, was the real 26 .
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