WATCH ABOVE: Trish Kozicka introduces us to an ambitious University of Alberta student who plans to tackle a new skill each week, for the course of a year.
EDMONTON — Stephen Robinson can now check “learn how to make a plane flip” off his “to do” list. That’s just one of the new skills the 21-year-old has picked up recently. He plans to learn a new one each week until he hits 52 and document the whole process in a video blog.
“52skillz is all about going and doing awesome stuff every week of the year,” Robinson explained.
He got the idea for the project while learning to moonwalk and play the guitar for a friend’s birthday. The skill he’s most excited about tackling is surviving in the wild. He’s saving that one for summer, though.
“The really cool thing about a lot of these skills is when you go out and ask people to share with you what they’re really good at, people love that,” he said.
“It’s just all about asking.”
Another thing Robinson has had to teach himself? How to shoot and edit video, which he said takes up the majority of the time he spends on 52skillz. Luckily, time management seems to be an inherent talent of his. The fourth-year psychology student manages to fit in a full course load at the University of Alberta. His secret, he revealed, is to focus on just five main tasks each day.
“Finals season was a little interesting. I actually got Carpal tunnel in my fingers because I was doing so much writing and editing.
“Sometimes there’s sacrifices with very little sleep, all that sort of stuff…like malnutrition,” he joked.
Robinson hopes what he’s doing inspires others to go out and try new things themselves.
“The biggest thing I’ve learned from this is if there’s the right motivation behind anything, anyone can do cool stuff. There’s nothing special about myself. I just have the right motivations,” Robinson said.
“I get a lot of people telling me, ‘Oh man. What you’re doing is so interesting. I wish I had this interesting of a life.’ Well, you can. Just go do it.”
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