With regard to driving, there is an alternative to enduring years of gaining experience: go and learn further driving techniques from Rospa or the Institute of Advanced Motorists (to name two organisations).
These folk teach you stuff you may learn over multiple years of driving experience. Screw-up spectacularly at the start of your multiple years of experience and you may not be around to finish the course.
I'm biased in that I took such tuition some 20 years ago, and feel that it has helped me in my driving.
Mungo
[As an aside, an anecdote from the head of the driving club I attended umpteen years ago: The driving club bloke would hear other drivers tell that their offspring regularly suffered "car sickness" to which he would regularly reply "there's no such thing as 'car sickness'". This usually brought a swift reply from the parent "Of course there is, my wee kid regularly throws up when I drive". The reply to this was "There is no such thing as Car Sickness but there IS such a thing as 'motion sickness' ". And then the hapless parent was taught to change gear properly so that the car occupants weren't thrown back and forward through the changes. ]