Learning to fight: or more precisely learning an alive martial art (one that entails sparring)
Getting tapped out or beaten up over and over develops a kind of calmness and humility that transfers well to other situations in life. After you've fought someone on stage in front of friends and family, it's difficult to find other experiences particularly scary.
It lets you tap into a number of deep and ancient aspects of being human, in a safe and productive way (assuming you are able to find a good, disciplined school, and not one run by people with egos).
So much of Stripe's UI seems to have been influential on other company landing pages: the animated dropdown on the navbar, the slashed background shapes, having interactive code editors and displaying devices on white backgrounds
Was Stripe the originator of this style or did they just make it famous?
An underrated one is being able to bullshit convincingly: that is, being able to quickly read around a topic, get a feel for expected content and style, and talk confidently about it. Antithetical to most nerds, but much of the world is run by people with this skill, so it's necessary to understand it (though one shouldn't ever rely on it)
Getting tapped out or beaten up over and over develops a kind of calmness and humility that transfers well to other situations in life. After you've fought someone on stage in front of friends and family, it's difficult to find other experiences particularly scary.
It lets you tap into a number of deep and ancient aspects of being human, in a safe and productive way (assuming you are able to find a good, disciplined school, and not one run by people with egos).