What are you bad at?

[Drago]

Knowing when to give up.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Anything remotely artistic.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Being sedentary

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Anything remotely artistic.

I have always been bad at that
partly because my hand tends to shake a bit - hence I cannot draw/paint a line where I want it to go

I could never even get close to copying a picture or anything

or so I thought until I had a daughter and she wanted me to draw a giraffe
but it had to fit in a specific place
I found a book with a picture in it and - with her watching carefully - I managed to draw a small section at a time and end up with something very like the picture and sclaed to fit

I was amazed

still rubbish at painting close to edges and the slight shake means some always goes over!

 

[Drago]

TBH im naturally bad at everything. Im not one of these naturally talented sorts who can turn their hand to anything and instantly be amazing at it.

But my superpower is a will of iron and a bloody minded determination. Once I have decided to do something I'll plod through the learning then I'll practice to a relentless degree (Mrs D reckons I get obsessive when something grabs me that way) until I've mastered it.

 

[Binky]

Replying to inane topics on a forum. I always struggle with that.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

TBH im naturally bad at everything. Im not one of these naturally talented sorts who can turn their hand to anything and instantly be amazing at it.

But my superpower is a will of iron and a bloody minded determination. Once I have decided to do something I'll plod through the learning then I'll practice to a relentless degree (Mrs D reckons I get obsessive when something grabs me that way) until I've mastered it.

Thought that would be you!

my superpower is getting distracted by everything and having a concentration span of 15 minutes maximum

which is something of a problem for a programmer working on extremely complex systems that required detailed analysis of masses of data and complex code

my other superpower is looking like I am doing a good job and getting the damn thing to work in some way at the end

I have no idea how I have managed to have 2 careers and been though of as good at both

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Oh yes
Other thing I am bad at
doing things that can be put off

so I am hopeless at doing an online course where you are self paced
but when I was working and had a fixed deadline, then I never missed them

but also very seldom had anything done ahead of time

I also cannot finish things - I can always see one more way to make it better
which is one reason why I need a deadline - without it a 10 day task would take 50 days - with the last 45 made of of little tweaks that were not necessary

when I was a teacher I never taught the same lesson twice - in spite of being suppoed to do all the Year 7,8 and 9 lessons 6 times a year
I was always tweaking them

One my Head of Department came round to do an observation (i.e. tick a box) and when he came in he said
"just thought I would come round and see which parts of my lesson plans you were ignoring this week"

we got on well - but I did confuse him!

putting all that together I am a mess!!!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Suddenly remembering something bad or hurtful someone said or did to me years ago and it annoying me so much that I have an imaginary argument with that person, i.e. to thin air, containing what I SHOULD have said or done at the time.

... Then holding a grudge against said person or situation forever... Or until I forget again, whatever comes first...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Same here. I've noticed that my "lifestyle choices" don't help as most people talk about music, films, beer, cars, and how the awful government is fleecing the honest motorist.

I personally find the whole thing boring and exhausting.

Beer I'm ok with up to a point, but as for the rest and the politics of woe/hate/self pity, I'm not interested and fcuk off with your sh*tty anti immigrant, homophobic, transphobic or Islamaphobic crap too!!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Worse of all though, beating myself up over something cringey, embarrassing, bad or wrong I have ever done or said.

People say

'Stop visiting the museum in your head'

But it's difficult, it really is!



As I said in another thread, I don't think I was meant for this world, I must have been sent here by mistake. 😆

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Worse of all though, beating myself up over something cringey, embarrassing, bad or wrong I have ever done or said.

People say

'Stop visiting the museum in your head'

But it's difficult, it really is!



As I said in another thread, I don't think I was meant for this world, I must have been sent here by mistake.

I know what you mean
I am especially bad in the mornings just after I wake up
I reckon I have dreams that linger but I don;t remember so in my mind I am in a past time and that environment

I know it has happened sometimes when I get the house layout wrong and imagine that the rooms are from that house
often it is weird as I approach a door and when I am opening it I am half thinking that the room behind it is from a different house - but the next room I am seeing as from anotehr house again

It fixes itself by the time I have made a coffee
but it is weird when it happens

 

[BrumJim]

Being funny. In particular, telling jokes and amusing stories.

Truly abismal at it. But I keep trying. Might have more friends if I didn't.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Being funny. In particular, telling jokes and amusing stories.

Truly abismal at it. But I keep trying. Might have more friends if I didn't.

I am not too bad at telling them

remembering them is the problem
until JUST after the moment is passed of course

 

[gbb]

'Big money'
I do daily finances very well and have benefitted immensely through life with that ethic.
But, bigger money 'scares' me..(not the right word, intimidates my decision making process perhaps). I dont trust or feel confident putting my money in other people's hands or care so I've never made the best of what I have.

I realised I wasnt 'good' at high tech at work. My skillset (engineering machine maintenance) was older tech and if I say so myself, I was pretty good at it, travelled to three continents and multiple countries using it...but toward the end, was frequently confounded by modern systems, robotics, PLC programming etc. Im glad I was approaching retirement as it was being introduced at work.