Anything goes but I’m particularly interested in habits/practices/abillities that are real and otherwise can be developed with time and effort.

Keeping living space clean at all times

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    Proficiency in Ancient Greek, Avestan, Hittite, Old Church Slavonic, Sanskrit, and Tocharian A.

    Yes, this can be developed with enough time and effort, but I’m no elf to live a millennium and resources for those languages are awful to find.

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      Wouldn’t Tocharian B be better?

      With A you could read mostly Buddhist scriptures that already exist in other languages, but with B you could read more historically-relevant secular works.

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        Frankly I’d be a happy camper with either. My focus isn’t too much on what those languages were used for, but on Proto-Indo-European reconstruction; having more points of reference is always useful.

        (That said you’re right that Toch. B would be better - it seems to be more conservative. I thought that it was the opposite.)