Can I do one per day? Hmmm. They fly in and out so fast and a computer isn't always nearby. Notebook?
Start with this one. Two heroin junkies were stoup-sitting one day and the Yoga teacher one is telling his friend about scientific study he read that explains how one can evaluate mental health by watching someone walk.
The two friends then started analyzing passers-by. One day a girl walks by who has it all. Not only attractive, she has the perfect walk: firm, graceful, not too fast, not too slow, confident. They decided to meet her and evaluate their findings.
Both of these men are above average looks, and very above average intelligence. They introduce themselves, chat up and young woman and get to know her. Their conclusion: "She was completely crazy - and NOT in a good way!"

Starting life with no connections, no home-base, little family and zero resources, I instinctively leaned to scavenge whatever information and items that might be useful. Children and animals are remarkably resourceful that way. Whether it was a wistful hint that I wished I had a home or the thrilling discovery that I could escape high school, where I was bored and frightened into fugue states and obsessive writing of bad poetry, and proceed directly to an institution of higher (I hoped) learning. I taught myself to seize the moment, shape it, and act on it quickly and relentlessly.

To an observer in space I might have looked passive, reacting rather than acting; "going with the flow", but I was choosing carefully from the dumpster bin before me. Offered a full scholarship to a rather well-thought-of private college, I turned it down when the offer included supervision by the offerer, a particularly insistent counselor who was "studying" me for his own advanced degree. I knew which meat was poisoned. Unless it involved emotions. That was a separate thread entirely.