The most important training though is to experience life as a writer questioning everything inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that all the other things will come if you don't there's no hope for you.
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.