Talents and Abilities

[thatguyzeke]

Just a simple thread where you can share what you feel are some talents you have.
These can range from mundane to extraordinary so go for it.
If you want, you can even include things you are just plain terrible at as well.

For me, I seem to be great at listening/giving advice to others about their problems. May not sound like much, but its lead me to possibly being a psychologist.

And I'm horrible... absolutely terrible at anything to do with drawing or painting. I'm limited to stick figures and that's all.

[vladnuke]

LIST OF SHIT VLADNUKE IS GOOD AT:
Music production (kinda)
Butterfly knife flipping
Writing (good enough)
Marksmanship (with pistols and rifles)
Airsoft (not related)
scuba diving
Aggressive driving (not dangerous, aggressive)
craftsmanship (wood and metal)
building computers/vex robots
chemistry+physics
Proofreading
speaking Russian
painting pony figurines
Throwing knives/other pointed objects
Skiing

LIST OF SHIT VLADNUKE IS TERRIBLE AT:
Programming/coding (working on it)
Understanding women (working on it)
saying no to people
organization
not being a lazy, narcissistic asshole
handwriting
drawing



Meh.

[SpyPie]

Well...

I Doodle these weird cartoony drawings
I love to experimenting with music equipment and slicing loops.
I have alot of Knowledge on music. Alot more than I need.
Staying Sober
INTENSE BULLET HELL GAMEZ

[thatguyzeke]

I forgot I have a passion for Philosophy! Any type from Philosophy of Mind to Free Will and Ethics.

Aggressive driving (not dangerous, aggressive)

I'll add this to things I'm bad at. I let people be aggressive left and right when I drive.

[SpyPie]

I do Accents good, too

[CDPP]

Overthinking. Hell, I think I'm on par with some professionals in that field.

[K3WRO]

Things I'm good at:

Music production (I guess)
Ping-Pong
Chess
REAL instruments (Piano, Tuba, Euphonium and Trumpet is all I play)
Speaking Japanese (out of the 70% of people attending American school)
Speaking English (Duh)
Legos and shit
Handwriting
Volleyball (one of the ONLY sport that I can get in hang of)
Woodworking (all I can build are shelves and tables)
Being lazy


Things I'm Terrible at:

Giving Advice
Paying attention
Drawing female figurines (especially breasts)
organization
Reading scores
WRITING and READING in Japanese ( I haven't learned all kanjis)
English grammar structure
Decisions
Console FPC games

I tend to procrastinate on...everything

[Matthew N.]

Talents? hmm...

1. Chaotic organization (meaning that I know what is where even though it's a mess)
2. Building PCs from scratch
3. Being sober after 8-10 beers... true story!
4. English; both written and spoken
5. Used to be really good at FPS games, but then my mouse started failing and... yeah
6. I'm never late for anything

My personal issues...

1. Laziness
2. Laziness
3. I quickly judge people (though it usually is an accurate judgement)
4. I always say what I think (might be considered a good value, but not in this world)
5. hmm... oh, yeah, laziness

[HMage]

I eat tea.

[wu long cha]

stuff i'm good/decent at

• singing/ukulele
• salsa dancing
• cooking
• crochet
• being charming, i suppose
• keeping secrets for other people
• humor?
• english
• understanding basic tagalog
• laziness

stuff i'm terrible at

• SPORTS
• THE FRENCH LANGUAGE
• general human interaction
• small talk
• programming/coding
• dance that isn't ballroom dancing
• handwriting
• speaking/writing basic tagalog

[Cherax]

I forgot I have a passion for Philosophy! Any type from Philosophy of Mind to Free Will and Ethics.

The illusion of free will is an emergent property of the deterministic system that is the human brain. DISCUSS.

I've always considered myself not to be very good at a few things, but just good enough at a wide range of things. That aside, I'm well out of practice, but I can still play a mean Guitar Hero.

I'm also an excellent dancer, if your definition of "dancing" involves a great deal wildly flailing limbs and exaggerated headbanging than most people's. This only happens behind closed doors, mind you.

[CommandSpry]

Things I'm good at

- Fake stereotypical Russian accent
- Computing, fixing computers
- Good FPS-es
- Fulfilling promises
- Cooking

Things I'm bad at

- Music Production
- Trusting too much
- Appreciating humanity
- Driving
- Drawing
- Fixing things other than computers

Have fun

[Ed Viper]

Understanding women (working on it)

Meh.

Hahahah good luck, bro.

[Matthew N.]

I eat tea.

OOoohhhhh... kaaaaaaaaaay?

[Legion]

Im worried that it's this hard for me to come up wit's stuff I'm good at.

Good at:
Analytical writing (English class type stuff)
History related stuff
Writing a decent melody
Building computers
Listening and helping people with their problems (doesn't seem like much, but I'm proud of it)

Bad at:
Overestimating myself
Work ethic
Procrastination
Beating myself up over stuff
Rinsing and repeating

So yeah.

[icedog25]

I've always felt like I've been really good at musical things, ever since I was a little kid.
Besides that, I'm pretty good at TF2. Yeah, there are lots of people who are better than me, but I'm relatively decent.
I also am pretty good at DDR. Going out to an arcade today for that.
Writing was something I had trouble with in elementary school, but I like to think I'm very good at it now.
If I bothered to put any time into it, I'd be a good artist.
Is being tall a talent? I don't think so.
That's pretty much it, I guess.

Bad at:
Procrastination
Beating myself up over stuff

Yeah, pretty much the same here. Although I suppose the problem is that I'm just a bit too good at beating myself up, so I do it a lot.
I also have trouble responding to compliments with anything other than denial.
And I sometimes have trouble counting things if there's more than 10 of them. Yeah, that's right, I'm smart.

[Navron]

Things I'm Good At:

1. Arts and Creativity. Whether it's music, art, building things, or using my imagination, I can usually pick up anything arts related and be decent at it after a couple months.

2. Computers. I build them, and can fix a decent number of hardware and software issues people may have.

3. Skydiving, although I'm currently over a year of not jumping, and have to get myself current again.

4. Driving. Most people compliment me on my safe driving, although I can get aggressive if needed. A calculated aggression if you will. Driving skills acquired through multiple winters in the mountains, multiple times hydroplaning, and many other close calls.

5. Money. I have no debt, use a budget, and have multiple savings and retirement options. Compared to the 70+% of Americans that have debt and live paycheck to paycheck, I'd say I'm pretty good at it.

6. Jack of all trades. I excel in very few areas, but am good at almost anything I put an effort towards.

Things I'm bad at:

1. Swimming. I may be a better swimmer than many, but considering my actual job is being a rescue swimmer, I'm pretty slow. Any competitive swimmer could kick my ass big time.

2. Thinking I can do everything, which kind of plays into #6 above.

3. Understanding women. I am absolutely horrendous at picking up signs of interest.

[colortwelve]

Good at:
-The technical aspects of music production
-Writing (apparently)
-Making people laugh (most of the time)
-Computers, hardware and software
-Philosophy (i.e. asking stupid questions to make someone shut up)

Bad at:
-The creative and theoretical aspects of music production
-Reading into a situation
-Distinguishing what's apparently not okay to laugh about
-Making any sort of plans

Not being a lazy, narcissistic asshole

[soultensionbenjamin]

things im good at ........



things im bad at: life

[ChromaticChaosPony]

I'm good at progressive metal guitar. Not amazing, but decent enough. I'm getting better at art. I learn quickly. I can kinda understand odd time signatures.

I'm really good at experimenting with music. That is literally most of my music. Just pure experimentation with a certain genre or style of music. It doesn't get me a fan base or anyone who really loves my music, but I feel like I improve every time I fuck up an experiment. I learn from it. Sadly, I haven't perfected any method of music production, so the only thing that I can do is approximate. This means I will likely be a great musician, but not for at least another 3-10 years.

I suck at organizing academic stuff and sleeping. I literally get 4-6 hours of sleep most days. Considering that I'm 15 years old, this is not a good thing.

I also suck at being social IRL. I'm either too shy, too tired, or too depressed to deal with other people.

I'm literally the Twilight Sparkle of brony music production, except I have no really close friends IRL and I'm not very talented.

[Stars In Autumn]

I can:
Make music
Program (.NET languages for life!)
Some graphic design
Philosophize

[Edened]

Things I'm good at:
I can do tedious repetitive motions for an extremely long time.
I can jump higher than anyone I know
I like to think I'm good at guitar
I'm getting better at music production, still not great though
I'm a good arguer (I think debater would be a better word)
I'm excellent at billiards

Things I'm bad at:
Spelling
Fighting games, I am so bad at fighting games...
I'm an awful swimmer
I can't learn another language for my life, seriously, its bad.
I'm very lazy
It's 6:27 AM, just thought I'd throw that in there
Sleeping is over rated

[Andanté]

For me, I seem to be great at listening/giving advice to others about their problems. May not sound like much, but its lead me to possibly being a psychologist.

And I'm horrible... absolutely terrible at anything to do with drawing or painting. I'm limited to stick figures and that's all.

Heh, same with me. xD

I think my main talent lies in how I use my logic - Once I learn anything I can really quickly apply it in a given situation. Obviously, this has its downsides, I overcomplicate anything technical (as anyone who's ever tried to collab with me agrees!).

Another odd thing is that I have awesome spatial awareness, which is why I'm so good at tennis, cricket, Ju-Jitsu and archery (even though I'm not really very sporty), and why I'm also really good at driving (heck, I can even parallel park and I haven't even taken driving lessons yet).

[Kagetori]

I can learn anything that interests me amazingly fast, like how I learned to play a keyboard in less than about a week. This goes into writing and things that aren't related to music.

However, I'm horrible at things like the technical parts of making music. It's like I almost completely lack what would be the left side of my brain and the right side takes over everything (not literally of course, it's just that I learn only what I want to really quickly and anything that bores me, I just don't put enough effort into learning more about. For example, I'm really good at things related to math and science, but usually only if it interests me, although I get bored really easily.)
Another thing is that I'm bad at learning from others and taking directions for some reason, but on my own it's completely different.

With that said, I'd have to say my main "talent" is philosophy.
If I had a cutie mark, it'd probably be a dodecagram.

Another odd thing is that I have awesome spatial awareness, which is why I'm so good at tennis, cricket, Ju-Jitsu and archery (even though I'm not really very sporty), and why I'm also really good at driving (heck, I can even parallel park and I haven't even taken driving lessons yet).

This too.

[natsukashi]

I am good at cooking. And waiting.