Natural Talents

Pherekydes · 16-02-2009 06:19PM

People get better at things when they practise. The more you practise, the better you get.

You'll find the naturally gifted child prodigy at maths/chess/the piano/golf has been doing little else for the bulk of their life. It's called the 10000 hour rule. You can actually google that term.

Talent? Schmalent.

I'm working my ass off at my MA.

Diabhal Beag · 16-02-2009 06:24PM

Pherekydes wrote: »

I'm working my ass off at my MA.

Incest jokes may not be flavour of the month right now

Pherekydes · 16-02-2009 06:30PM

Little Shyte wrote: »

Incest jokes may not be flavour of the month right now

MA = Master of Arts

Ma = Dead.

Diabhal Beag · 16-02-2009 06:46PM

Woops. My apologies. You must understand what I was angling at though

eVeNtInE · 16-02-2009 06:58PM

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Caoimhín · 16-02-2009 07:04PM

People are lucky to have talents. I have absolutely no discernable talents. I dont even have any pastimes or passions.

Im a sad example of a human really.

abi2007 · 16-02-2009 07:08PM

Maths

flyton5 · 16-02-2009 07:10PM

I can make my penis bigger just by looking at naked women...

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 16-02-2009 07:11PM

abi2007 wrote: »

Maths

Same as myself!

Creamy Goodness · 16-02-2009 08:18PM

nothing.

phasers · 16-02-2009 08:31PM

I can make a person hate a movie/TV show I hate just by watching it with them

consultech · 16-02-2009 08:36PM

Ok, my ego's turn:

I am very good at mental arithmetic, like I can divide decimal numbers into other decimal numbers in seconds

Advanced command of the English language, and a freakish sponge-like memory for word definitions. I often drop words into converstions that I've never even consciously thought about before, but I've obvously taken them on subconsciously at one stage.

Excellent singing voice, very wide range and extremely good control. Have been told to "f*ck off" when I first sang for one of my (now) best mates who has travelled the world singing in operas when I told him I'd never had any classical training.

Good dancer, have had same sentiment as above directed at me.

Played snooker for Ireland about 8 years ago, but will plead the "10000 hour" rule on that one. 8 hours a day during some of my teen years.

Very good natural footballer when I was younger, can (could) do some crazy kickup stuff.

Lots more, Im essentially the perfect human being.

MJOR · 16-02-2009 08:42PM

I'm good at hugs

rainbow kirby · 16-02-2009 08:48PM

I'm a speed reader - I read about twice as fast as most normal people do. I'm also pretty good at maths (despite being a CS student rather than a maths one) and I'm good at remembering very small details about certain things.

I'm also rather amused that half the similar threads to this are from the WoW forum.

Kya1976 · 16-02-2009 08:55PM

I'm great at my job(dog trainer), I've always been good with animals.:)

BaconZombie · 16-02-2009 08:55PM

2 + 2 = 5

abi2007 wrote: »

Maths

Bryn wrote: »

Same as myself!

16-02-2009 09:07PM

I'm meh at everything...thats a skill in of itself right?

Pherekydes · 16-02-2009 09:19PM

Moonbaby wrote: »

I'm meh at everything...thats a skill in of itself right?

Yes. By the 10000 hour rule, if you practise 10000 things for one hour each you'll be meh at all of them.

FlutterinBantam · 17-02-2009 12:19AM

By controlling the sphincter muscle I can dump out the most viscious of skutthers and leave my badge clean as a nun's knickers.

All it takes is practice and strong glutes:cool:

dave.omeara · 17-02-2009 12:31AM

Dubh Geannain wrote: »

I find breathing comes quite natural to me. I don't have to concentrate on it or anything!

Except if I'm put under any physical pressure, or if I panic, then I actually forget to breath. Never good especially if you're underwater at the time.

I have an eye for things, something strange, something unique, something beautiful...
Everything else requires working my rear off to get good at.

titan18 · 17-02-2009 12:32AM

I'm very good at finding sex references in the stupidest of things and bursting out laughing when i see it.

Rhyme · 17-02-2009 12:35AM

I can keep a beat with my eyebrows.

LD 50 · 17-02-2009 12:36AM

I'm naturally gifted in bed.

I couldn't believe noone has said that already.

entropi · 17-02-2009 03:05AM

LD 50 wrote: »

I'm naturally gifted in bed.

I couldn't believe noone has said that already.

Because we'd be telling the truth about it:P

As for myself, apparently i'm a good dancer, i can pick up most sports pretty quickly and be competent at them and i'm good academically except maths i really dislike numbers...

Oh i'm a pretty fast runner should the need arise to do so:)

Toots · 17-02-2009 03:30AM

I'm good at wedding planning..........so far........

Dave147 · 17-02-2009 04:06AM

I can come every 15 minutes.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 17-02-2009 04:51AM

I am pretty good at shooting, only thing I can think of at the moment.

I used to be good at hurling, woodwork and canoeing, but it has been a very very long time :P

Mhmm...weetabix · 17-02-2009 05:00AM

LD 50 wrote: »

I'm naturally gifted in bed.

Sleeping in bed isn't a talent, unlike sleeping in a bathtub, you need specials skills for that! Special drunken skills!

liah · 17-02-2009 11:46AM

Oh yeah, other than the tying things into knots with my tongue thing, I can read faster than 99.9% of people and picked it up incredibly quickly as a kid, too.. I remember reading Stephen King's "IT" around the age of 8 and only taking a couple days to read it. Book was nearly bigger than me.

And I'm good with animals.

...unfortunately my people skills have suffered greatly as a result, considering I spent my entire childhood with my nose in books or playing with my dogs instead of socialising... every gift is a curse.

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