What are you good at?

[edawg456]

Sports. I can learn any sport you throw at me and become really good at in no time.

 

[sneakypete123]

I'm good at debating with friends, I nearly always win the argument. I guess I am just good at taking facts and putting them into a convincing sentence.

I also love debating, mass-debating with a large number of people.

The larger the number of people, the more intense the mass-debate becomes.

 

[CarBastard]

Everybody around me thinks I'm quite knowledgeable about cars, though I'm nothing special if you compare me with the average man in this or other forums. I think I'm a good reader, a fluent speaker and I'm good (or at least above average) in writting. I've just done a semester in college but I'm one of the exceptional students (I study Philosophy) and I've so far scored a couple of 5.0s (the highest grade in Colombian universities) in some essays. I'm also fluent in a second language (english). And, apparently, I'm a good boyfriend and son.

Saddly, I'm not a good driver yet. But that's a matter of experience .

 

[Bopop4]

Mechanical knowledge.
If both pilots were unable to land a large commercial airplane and there was no other pilot on board I would be the best alternative to land it, (because I've flown an airplane and with flight simulators and all the other stuff I wouldn't be too far off on landing it, and I want to become a pilot.)
Driving.
Motorcycling, dirtbiking.
Visualization abilities.

 

[Small_Fryz]

I would say there are 3 areas in which I seem to excel.

- Sales (Sales rep, salesman etc)
- Driving (Go Karts, PC Sims, GT5 etc, Dirtbikes)
- Ability to grasp concepts and patterns (Maths, Formulas etc)

Of those, my maths/logic skills are the least quantifiable as I never ended up going to university to get a degree in Engineering or the likes. I was easily the top 2 or 3 students at my high school in Maths (while being a year younger) So on what real evidence I have, its safe to assume I was decent at it.

I can put together a decent case to support my Driving, especially in the PC Sim / GT5 section and a few kart track days seem to backup the basics transferring to real life, but since I don't race professionally in the real world...

That leaves sales... Something which I have real quantified results for and do earn a good living from. So not only do I think I'm skilled in the area (Technically I can claim to be a professional), but I have also managed to make use of it, which I think is equally, if not more important than simply being "good at it".

 

[f1reb1rd]

I'm good at reading and diving.

 

[W3H5]

I should have mentioned that I'm really good at getting drunk. I'm not at drinking, that's not what I mean. I can pretty much get drunk better than anyone but I didn't think to mention it before as it's not the most admirable thing.

 

[Epic B]

I'm good at singing apparently, though I don't have to sing very often. I just happen to be good at it. I am decent academically too, as the modes on my report card this year are 86 and 88. Which is an A. I'm good at a lot of things, I just can't think of any others. I can read out loud well too, and I did it a lot this year.

 

[interpunct]

GT5, oh besides that? XD

Nah, all jokes aside I don't like to say I'm good at anything. I did learn a lot of musical instruments on my own. If that counts for anything. Still I am not gonna start and flatter myself.

 

[Techy]

I'm not sure what I'm particularly outstanding towards. But one I'm really sure of is drawing, as a bit of my peers quite like my work and I have a bit of a mindset towards drawing. I guess "Jack of all trades. Master of none" is a nice summary of my capabilities.

 

[SlipZtrEm]

I would say there are 3 areas in which I seem to excel.

- Sales (Sales rep, salesman etc)
- Driving (Go Karts, PC Sims, GT5 etc, Dirtbikes)
- Ability to grasp concepts and patterns (Maths, Formulas etc)

Of those, my maths/logic skills are the least quantifiable as I never ended up going to university to get a degree in Engineering or the likes. I was easily the top 2 or 3 students at my high school in Maths (while being a year younger) So on what real evidence I have, its safe to assume I was decent at it.

I can put together a decent case to support my Driving, especially in the PC Sim / GT5 section and a few kart track days seem to backup the basics transferring to real life, but since I don't race professionally in the real world...

That leaves sales... Something which I have real quantified results for and do earn a good living from. So not only do I think I'm skilled in the area (Technically I can claim to be a professional), but I have also managed to make use of it, which I think is equally, if not more important than simply being "good at it".

I feel the same way about your third point, for myself - I always did well in high school Math, without much effort - and have a knack for picking up patterns and doing simple math quickly on-the-fly, to the point that people comment on it fairly regularly. But I never explored it after high school, and never had much interest in the more difficult stuff.

I've had far more comments about my car knowledge; less surprising considering this very website, really, but it even weirds me out how I can remember the basic stats of most cars on sale here or in the UK without putting much effort into really hunting down their numbers. Has it been produced in significant numbers (or was significant) in the last 20 years? Chances are I can recite most of the basic numbers, or what physical differences separate particular trim levels. I really wish I could reprogram my mind to put actual useful info somewhere in there. On the plus side; it's brushing off on the girlfriend, she can now ID cars out in the wild so much quicker

I'm apparently good with drawing and graphic design work (I'd hope so, or school will be a colossal waste of time and money), but frustratingly, it usually doesn't involve a lot of brainstorming or other initial plan-forming exercises. I've seemingly minimized that part of the process, and I'm teaching myself to get back into the habit: it's going to bite me if I don't, I know it.

 

[Slash]

Promoting Ford products with my mouth.

 

[StGeorge]

Cooking (gotta love your food), giving help & advice to others regarding their problems yet I suck at solving my own issues, network security, iPhone & Android applications, web development, e-commerce, flash, content management systems, graphic user interface & finally science.

Pretty much a 90's tech kid without the nerdy looks.

 

[Hollow]

Plus I have a rather good musical ear as I learnt piano through suzuki method (more about listening and learning rather than reading and learning).

Never knew that's what's its called, I play the piano the same way you mentioned. I never continued to play though because both my hands don't coordinate, so no point having a musical ear.

Mechanical knowledge.
If both pilots were unable to land a large commercial airplane and there was no other pilot on board I would be the best alternative to land it, (because I've flown an airplane and with flight simulators and all the other stuff I wouldn't be too far off on landing it, and I want to become a pilot).

Flying is the safest way of travel but it wouldn't hurt to know that if everything else fails, you can fly the plane lol. The closest I got to flying a plane was playing flight simulator on PC back in the day. Don't know how I'd do if it all came down to me on a flight, the tension and amount of lives in my hands would definately make me screw up, hopefully it nevers comes to that.

Its an awesome skill to have though. 👍

Jacks are better than masters.

Jacks definitely are, but I'd rather be a master at something I love doing, then be good at many things I don't think are important to me.

 

[Bopop4]

The closest I got to flying a plane was playing flight simulator on PC back in the day. Don't know how I'd do if it all came down to me on a flight, the tension and amount of lives in my hands would definately make me screw up, hopefully it nevers comes to that.

Yeah, I have a bit of simulator time but when I actually flew an airplane (Cessna 152) it felt like the sim. I too would be a nervous wreck if I had to land a 737, and I might have to go around a couple times in order to get a good fell for the approach, but at least I would get it on the ground, landing gear in one piece or not lol.

 

[gorsad]

Maths and Science. I'm also pretty good at fictional writing, it's a lot of fun. Nothing else I'd say I'm above average at.

 

[Boffin]

Never knew that's what's its called, I play the piano the same way you mentioned. I never continued to play though because both my hands don't coordinate, so no point having a musical ear.

I don't play piano anymore (but give me a day or so and I may be able to churn out something) but I have used it to aid me playing guitar these days, which is good. Call me elitist, but I find a good ear can be useful even if you don't play anything in the fact I think I can appreciate listening to music in a different way than some people, noticing a few different patterns, details, awkward bass, melody, rhythmic lines etc.

People also say I am quite a smooth, safe driver to be in a car with (can drive fast if I have to but it costs money and is more dangerous, so I don't do it much) as well. And I can hit a tennis ball fairly well.

 

[Famine]

Jacks definitely are, but I'd rather be a master at something I love doing, then be good at many things I don't think are important to me.

In any given field, there's only one master. To be master of it you have to be better than everyone else alive at it - and in some cases better than everyone else who's ever been alive. For most fields you'll only occupy that position for the blink of an eye as someone else better turns up - or your skills wane. Or both.

If you want to blur "master" a bit, you still need to occupy top few thousandths of a percent. Take Euro2012 as a demonstration of football mastery - there were 368 players present. These players were drawn from a pool of approximately 13,000 top level players (2.8% of all top level players), themselves drawn from a pool of approximately 300,000 professional players (0.1%), those drawn from all people who identify their main hobby as football - I couldn't even begin to guess how many people say they are "good at football", but there's 3 million people in the UK alone who participate in the sport - and 1,000 or so professionals, so the UK professionals (or masters) make up 0.03% of all UK participants and those based at UK clubs who played in Euro2012 make up 0.001% of all UK participants...

My times say I'm in the top 0.1% of people at GT Academy. Am I a master of GT?


It's far better to be a jack - and a good jack. You only need to a 10th percentile jack at six things to be one in a million - ten to be unmatched on the planet. If you're a good first percentile jack it's three and five.

Of course you could always be a master jack - like Leonardo da Vinci...

 

[axletramp]

And that's how Batman defeated The Joker, The Riddler, Cat Woman and The Penguin. He's just a great all-rounder!

 

[W3H5]

According to Famine's conclusion I am the master of my own bladder! Nobody can control it as well as me, and even I have trouble sometimes!

 

[Shaun]

I also love debating, mass-debating with a large number of people.

The larger the number of people, the more intense the mass-debate becomes.

Surely I'm not the only one who read it how I did.

I would say there are 3 areas in which I seem to excel.

- Sales (Sales rep, salesman etc)
- Driving (Go Karts, PC Sims, GT5 etc, Dirtbikes)
- Ability to grasp concepts and patterns (Maths, Formulas etc)

Ahem.

Although I will admit I was shocked to see it wasn't rum.



From a personal point of view, I don't really know what I would consider myself good at. I think I'm pretty good at my job though as I seem to be the go to man more often than not when the fecal matter hits the fan.

Cheers Shaun.

 

[Ibonibo]

^

(For the germans, I'm like Stefan Raab), not a pro but good in a lot of disciplines. Allrounder

I have my strong abilities, job related or leisure related (one coming from the other).

 

[Luminis]

Well, I am a bit of a Jack of all Trades, I guess. There are a lot of things I'm good at and at least consider myself to be above average. That's partially due to the fact that I'm a rather fast learner, so it doesn't take me long to grasp something new fairly well. Quite helpful, I'd say.

Things I excel at (according to others, mostly), though, are:

1) Memorizing stuff. I can read something like a Wikipedia article, something from an encyclopaedia or some sort of article in a magazin and, if it's interesting in the least, I'll remember that stuff for years to come. Sometimes down to the actual wording. According to some folks that know me, I sometimes come across as a walking library. Dunno whether that's actually correct, though.

2)Talking. This may seem a bit strange, as talking isn't especially tough to do, but I guess you could say that I'm able to do it quite well. In German, at least, dunno about how well I would do when talking in English. I just happen to be able to persuade people of my views without putting too much effort into it and am able to market myself quite well. This also makes me good at debating things, mostly at least. Quite a useful skill to have, really. Helps in nearly every situation: With the job, friends, women, you name it.

3) Speaking of women, I am pretty good at giving massages and other... Well, women pleasing things.

That's what my previous girlfriends have been claiming, at least. Can't say whether it's true, though.

4) Eating meat. I usually don't really eat all that much... But put a nice steak in front of me, and I can guarantee you that I will be able to devour some pretty disgusting amounts of almost raw meat

5) Talking crap. Yep, others said that as well and I do consider myself to be able to compete with the best in the world when it comes to talking crap.

6) Another thing I'm good at would be creating unnecessary long sentences, which has been some sort of (bad) habit since, well, ever, to be quite honest and has aggreviated some of my teachers during my time at school quite badly.

 

[Michael88]

* Physical strength. I've always been very strong; I can build REALLY bulky muscles so fast and with so little effort that everyone -even weight lifters- think that I'm on steroids.

* Focusing my mind.
When something catches my interest I can spend hours and hours with it without losing a tiny bit of my concentration or motivation.
Last time that happened was when I dissembled rifles and polished and fine tuned their internal parts, I was so focused on that task that I didn't notice that I was sitting there for 11 hours straight with just one toilet break.
Its almost like some form of autism.

* Shooting. I'm very good at shooting all kind of ranged weapons including bows, I need very little practice with a new gun or type of weapon to learn its secrets and to be able to shoot it very accurately.

 

[W3H5]

* snip*

Is this you?

 

[axletramp]

No, he's Austrian, so...

 

[Boffin]

I have seen some pics in the pics of yourself thread and he wouldn't be far off, really...
Wish I had muscles that did that!

 

[Michael88]

Wish I had muscles that did that!

No you don't, bulkiness comes with so many drawbacks, contrary to popular belief muscles do NOT make you popular with the ladies, nasty prejudices, finding fitting shirts is time consuming, tailored suits are very expensive, you can't scratch your sides /back....

The only real benefit I can think of right now is you can be an a-hole to everyone in the club without ever getting attacked.

 

[W3H5]

No you don't, bulkiness comes with so many drawbacks, contrary to popular belief muscles do NOT make you popular with the ladies, nasty prejudices, finding fitting shirts is time consuming, tailored suits are very expensive, you can't scratch your sides /back....

My very good pal has muscle bound arms and he gets girls very easily. It might be because he's such a nice guy but I'm sure his arms help. In fact his nick name is Juliusz Big Arms or The Arms as we sometimes call him. Probably the nicest person I've ever met, thinking about it.

 

[TankAss95]

After thinking about it I'm not surprisingly good at anything, at least nothing springs to my mind anyway. I'm pretty much average or less than, and the things I am good at I'm nothing special or just above average.

Pretty sad, really.