okay... i might be shooting myself in the foot with this one... I have noticed that when learning a skill you can stop , and start learning another skill. The skill that was stop keeps its remaining time on it. Now for the foot shooting. Once you get to say 30+skills your skills time will increase due to the size of your brain. so to give a boost to skills. take all the skills you can learn and stop them say at 10secs before you learn them. Learn that one skill that will take you over your threshold then go back and finish learning the rest for a big skill boost. right? Okay im not sure if this will work yet but hell ima see and if it wasn't intended then it will go away :P.