You ace a crucial meeting, nail a near-impossible yoga pose, suggest the ideal spot to meet your friends for dinner and then make a dick of yourself while repeatedly failing to parallel park in front of the restaurant... Unless your surname is Andretti, the odds that anyone's shown you the proper technique are slim. Same goes for other 10-minute challenges, like extracting stubborn wine corks or getting comfy on a plane - the stuff you don't learn at uni. We begged people who've made it their mission to perfect deceptively simple tasks to share their insider knowledge.

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