Archery seems similarly likely to make you feel awesome.

Opportunity cost. An improv comedy course does this as well.

(c) I get to tell people I took glassblowing which makes people do a double take.

Years ago I heard an audio book by Jim Rohm in which he made the point that even people without near-death experiences have intersting stories to tell.

I said to myself: "I do have had sort of a near-death experience but I still feel like I have no intersting stories to tell." After that day I stopped making that excuse.

I do have plenty of stories that signal much more uniqueness because they are not easily reconstructed. Everyone can imagine just signing up for a college course or an archery class.

If you want to signal specialness experiences that aren't easily simulated are better.