Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy and talent to produce-in favor of what I call `impulse art': art work that is quick and easy, at least by comparison.

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.