There are several reasons why one should learning pen spinning. These are described below. At first, it may seem that pen spinning has no real uses, but if you take a deeper look at it, you'll find many benefits.

First, Pen Spinning will improve the coordination of your hand(s). If you stick to pen spinning and practice it regularly, you will acquire a very useful skill, the total control over your hands and fingers. This is useful in many areas. For example, if you are an artist, your fingers will have more control over a pen, thus improving the quality of your drawings. If you are a craftsman, you'll be able to use your fingers more effectively for the detail oriented work. Also, if you are in any field where the use of your hands is the essential, such as sleight-of-hand magic, juggling, or crooked gambling, pen spinning can definitely be very beneficial. And even in areas where your hands are not the very important, but are still required, pen spinning can help you improve your efficiency. Examples are the medical surgeon who uses his hand to perform delicate cuts in his patients, or the the office clerk who uses her typing skills everyday. These people can all benefit from practicing pen spinning.

Second, Pen Spinning can improve your patience and teach you how to learn from your own mistakes. Just like martial arts, pen spinning requires practice (and I mean a lot of practice). No one person can learn pen spinning on the first try. If you stick to pen spinning, you will realize that anytime you learn something new, whether it be a pen trick or something in school or real life, you are likely to fail at it first. Failure, however, is not useless. On the contrary, failure on the first few tries will show you what you are doing wrong and teach you how to correct your mistakes. Because of the frequent failure that you may experience in pen spinning, you will be more capable of learning from your mistakes. You will also have a different perspective on mistakes and failure. This will teach you to have more patience and not give up on the first mistakes you commit in life.

Finally, one should learn pen spinning because it is part of the human nature. If you think about it, the two things that make humans superior than any other animal species on earth are the brain and the hand. The difference between humans and other animals' brains is that the human brain can think logically. Animals have the ability to learn from their experience. They know how to distinguish between something that they previously learned to be dangerous from something that they know it's harmless. However, they might not understand the whys of these relationships. The more developed human brain allowed humans to survive against bigger and stronger animals during our evolution. The human hand, just like the brain, is a factor that helped humans survive. The simple fact that the Thumb can fold in an opposite direction than the other fingers is enough to make the human hand superior than many animals. Imagine a dog trying to carry an object with his paw. He just can't. Like dogs, many other animals have to use their mouth to carry and otherwise manipulate objects. Humans can do all that and much more with their hands. I remember one time when I was in the Zoo and I was really bored. I was close to the monkeys area and I saw someone tossing a wrapped candy to one of the monkeys. I was young at the time, but I thought to myself, "How stupid, the monkey can't eat a wrapped candy..." To my surprise, not only the monkey managed to catch the candy in the air (a pretty amazing feat I thought), but he also unwrapped the candy and put it in his mouth. Obviously, any other animal in that situation would not be able to eat that candy, but the monkey with his evolved hands, managed to eat it so easily that I was astound. If you never noticed, a monkey's hand is almost identical to human hands, and that's what makes them so useful. I believe that it's crucial that we develop our skills and control over our hands. Not just because it's helpful, but because it's important to our survival.