"Startup founder skills?" Are there such things? If you look at it one way, pretty much any skill can be a "founder skill" if you use it right. I've been worki

"Startup founder skills?" Are there such things? If you look at it one way, pretty much any skill can be a "founder skill" if you use it right. I've been working out, if that counts as practicing. I like being able to look at my body and feel a measure of pride in it. And absolutely, if you look good, it influences how other people think of you. I've also been trying to write music: mostly classical-inspired pop. I'm not very good at it, but it gives me something to fiddle with. If I could say some things that aren't current, though, my two big ones are acting and Dungeon Mastering. Acting, because it teaches you to become comfortable with your body, your voice, and with other people: you learn much more about your relationship with other things. It teaches you both about how you interact with yourself and about how you can change yourself to get a reaction in other people. Also, because the cliché is true: there's no people like show people. They've vivid and fast and alive, and there's no sort of person I'd rather be with on a boring do-nothing day. Dungeon Mastering, because it forces you to think. You're dealing with an extremely complex system, you're dealing with four-ish other people who each often know all the rules pertaining to them, and you're dealing with a world that you have to create yourself. Being a good DM means you learn how to handle complex systems and how to innovate within said systems. You need to balance four people at once and keep them all constantly entertained. It requires years of reading and - most likely - years of practice afterwards, but it's profoundly satisfying once you can do it. And D&D players are unique in that any group of players is playing because they love the game. You don't do it as a social move, or as a career move. You very rarely do it to pick up girls. It means you're with people who genuinely love what they do. (I'd also recommend working out, if you haven't tried it before, because it's an excellent way of calming your mind, and because you really have to focus to get it to work.)