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I hate doing these. I love to learn new stuff so maybe that's one?
Probably good at pixel art and 2D game art in general. Maybe good at design stuff (been told I'm good at game design). Can play piano and guitar quite well.
I suppose I'm pretty good at everything to do with the game design and production process.
Probably good at pixel art and 2D game art in general. Maybe good at design stuff (been told I'm good at game design). Can play piano and guitar quite well.
I suppose I'm pretty good at everything to do with the game design and production process.
I don't know if I have any special gifts...except, maybe...that I have an extremely adept ability to comprehend music theory. Like, it just...makes sense. I'm all self-taught, but yet I'm up a bit in college level theory and was the best at theory at Blue Lake fine arts camp, et cetera....But, I know enough stuff, and when I ask my band teacher stuff like "What is the best way to modulate to a minor variation of the tritone of a major key, say Bb major to E minor?" and if I get an answer like "Use the Neopolitan sixth, or the Neopolitan second of the new key, second inversion..." I can usually extrapolate from there and figure out plenty of other cool tricks.
as far as my job, I'm catching on surprisingly well to turbine engines. I have only moved into turbines in the last year, but I have several ppl calling me to ask advice on problems they run into. I like my job, don't get me wrong, but I don't like to think of it as a "special gift".
As far as "special gifts". I'd have to say, I'm a very good shot with a handgun.
I've got the balance of those little 5 footer olympian gymnasts on the balance beam. (I'm 6 foot 1 for the record lol ) and I have always had an unnatural way of telling if someone is lying, and being able to either prove it, or make them admit it. I'd have made a super bad arse lawyer. well, if i didn't hate lawyers I would have. lol
oh, and I can fold my tongue 5 times
As far as "special gifts". I'd have to say, I'm a very good shot with a handgun.
I've got the balance of those little 5 footer olympian gymnasts on the balance beam. (I'm 6 foot 1 for the record lol ) and I have always had an unnatural way of telling if someone is lying, and being able to either prove it, or make them admit it. I'd have made a super bad arse lawyer. well, if i didn't hate lawyers I would have. lol
oh, and I can fold my tongue 5 times
Galley's Rule of Nines 
Galley's Rule of Nines demonstrates a simple mathematical rule that I discovered about 25 years ago. You can take any positive whole number with at least two digits, and with a few manipulations, the end result is always nine!
So how does it work? There are two parts to the rule:
Part One: If you find the sum of the digits of any whole number (larger than nine) and subtract that sum from the original number, the result will always be a multiple of nine.
Part Two: Every multiple of nine's digits will add up to nine (or another multiple of nine, who's digits will add up to nine, etc.) In other words, no matter what number you being with, the end result will always be nine!
Example:
The original number 18975462
Part One:
1 + 8 + 9 + 7 + 5 + 4 + 6 + 2 = 42
18975462 - 42 = 18975420
Part Two:
1 + 8 + 9 + 7 + 5 + 4 + 2 + 0 = 36
3 + 6 = 9
Galley's Rule of Nines demonstrates a simple mathematical rule that I discovered about 25 years ago. You can take any positive whole number with at least two digits, and with a few manipulations, the end result is always nine!
So how does it work? There are two parts to the rule:
Part One: If you find the sum of the digits of any whole number (larger than nine) and subtract that sum from the original number, the result will always be a multiple of nine.
Part Two: Every multiple of nine's digits will add up to nine (or another multiple of nine, who's digits will add up to nine, etc.) In other words, no matter what number you being with, the end result will always be nine!
Example:
The original number 18975462
Part One:
1 + 8 + 9 + 7 + 5 + 4 + 6 + 2 = 42
18975462 - 42 = 18975420
Part Two:
1 + 8 + 9 + 7 + 5 + 4 + 2 + 0 = 36
3 + 6 = 9
Percussion instruments.
I picked up Mallets when I was... 10? And now at 15 I'm easily the best in my school. That and drumset, but there's a many a person who I find to be better behind a kit than myself.
I picked up Mallets when I was... 10? And now at 15 I'm easily the best in my school. That and drumset, but there's a many a person who I find to be better behind a kit than myself.
im good at math/physics i never really had to try and i got the concepts rather fast. Im a good cook. And I've been told im good at sketching/simple drawings, but I dont agree. Those are the things that dont apply to my future career.
However I am very good at diagnosis/analysis, reading people and situations, problem solving, stuff like that. Also I'm really unique, as in I often come up with weird views or solutions. I hope that these will be useful in the medical field.
However I am very good at diagnosis/analysis, reading people and situations, problem solving, stuff like that. Also I'm really unique, as in I often come up with weird views or solutions. I hope that these will be useful in the medical field.
teaching... Im a born teacher, and being a pretty good musician makes me a pretty damn good music teacher... although I would like to perform more often, my main instrument is not the most popular so teaching is my main thing right now.
very nice!! I taught junior high band for a few yrs. Definitely was NOT my forte'. lol
What is your instrument?? I've been playing the sax for about 20 years, well, i haven't played in over a year, but I could if I wanted to. lol
Our world needs more teacher, thank you for doing a valuable service!!! My highschool choir teacher is why I decided to get my music degree, but what I didn't realize is it is much harder to put up with other peoples kids than I realized.
My special gift is probably something over 50% of the people on this site have but w.e
Basically I can figure out how to use about any computer program within seconds. I look at something I've never seen before survey it and boom I know what I'm doing. This REALLY helps at my job and amazes a lot of people. I usually just figure they're dumb but maybe I'm just really smart. idk.
Basically I can figure out how to use about any computer program within seconds. I look at something I've never seen before survey it and boom I know what I'm doing. This REALLY helps at my job and amazes a lot of people. I usually just figure they're dumb but maybe I'm just really smart. idk.
I guess a couple of my more tangible ones would be music (I play with the symphony orchestra here) and engineering/technology (new gadgets, applications, whatever just seem intuitive to me to use, understand etc.)
On the more intangible side, I would have to say patience, the ability to teach, and just overall people skills which manifest in many forms.
On the more intangible side, I would have to say patience, the ability to teach, and just overall people skills which manifest in many forms.
Thank you, Nathan Petrelli...
Ha! Good one.
Me, I'm a good cook, am good at math and was easily the best at TurboCAD in my 9th grade class (it was only 2d though) and one of the best in my 10th grade class (which included 3d). Which is one reason I want to be a design engineer; CAD is so much fun!
Public speaking. A bit ego-maniac to come out and say it like this - but I'm damn good at giving lectures regarding Mars and spaceflight. They always get a great reception and I utterly LOVE doing them.
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Doug
I have been pretty good at that, and at understanding people's intentions and motives, too. I would call that instinct but in law school, all the tests, quizzes, and confrontational Socratic attacks on students are designed to make one think in a legal way devoid from instinct, common sense, or emotion.
For simple People's Court issues, most of us can usually get to the heart of the matter from body language, the way the judge is bringing the conversation, and the facts. But there are a few surprises.
But in complex concepts in law school, beyond People's Court like the UCC, California Penal Code vs. the Model Penal Code, medieval liability law, or understanding judicial dissents, demurers, or appeals, everything that one thinks works for them as a human being in common sense, reading people, and justice falls apart.
I have tried to use my math side to work for me in the alternate universe that is law/law school and one very bright student has been able to come up with a mathematical/statistics type approach to legal issues which has stumped all the professors.
It is well known that math can mirror the objective and precise, but it can sometimes help in the non-orderly world of human behavior and predicting it. Think "A Beautiful Mind" and the examples brought up in that movie where Dr. Nash was the first to suggest bringing in the most unpredictable factors possible and predict, with unusual success (greater that 50.01%), how people would act in psychological situations. Anyway, true or not, a very fascinating concept.
well at least you admit it
I think the point was his talent is candor, frankness, honesty...
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I wish I could say nunchucks, computer hacking, and bow hunting (or at least just be a really good kisser), but here's what sprang to mind:
I'm usually pretty good at manipulating people. I don't mean that in a bad way, but when I put my mind to it I can get people to do pretty much whatever I want. (I mean, within reason. Not the "run naked down Main Street" type of stuff)
I'm also pretty good at figuring people out - like knowing their true motives and whether you can trust them and stuff. I get that from my mother; she's almost a savant at reading people.
I'll have to ask someone... I'm pretty blind to my abilities for the most part.
no he's simply a genuine ass. no more should be read into it.
edity: thought of another thing im good at but is completely useless, for the most part. Im really good with guns. I've had no real formal training, other than safety, and its not like they are complicated or anything, but I can work, assemble, maintenance them with no trouble. and I'm a really good shot. I dont want to go into the military, hunting is fun but i dont love it, and i really dont like the idea of just anybody having guns.
I'm good at most things. Egotistical? Perhaps, but it's true.
I've always found that if I want to be good at something it's best to learn it slowly and methodically at first to establish a base skill set then speed up as one gains competence, it's all too easy to run head first into something and then bugger it up and come to the conclusion that you "can't" do something, unless you're a blithering idiot anyone can do most things it just usually takes patience and a careful approach.
I still fall victim to thinking I can't do things, I've always thought that I can't do poi as whenever I've tried I've epicly failed at it and hit myself square in the face with whatever I was doing it with, recently I forced myself to learn as we're working on a clone of this http://www.hackaday.com/2008/08/14/poiplay-led-poi/ and all it took was a little slow practice to get going.
As a kid I always thought that types who said things like "if you put your mind to it you can do anything" as a general statement were idealistic idiots, at the time I was struggling with severe dyslexia which resulted in rather horrific depression as whenever I tried to do school work that I completely understood but when pen hit paper everything just fell apart, it wasn't until my second year at university that I really started to get over my learning difficulties and as soon as I changed my mentality everything started going well.
I've always found that if I want to be good at something it's best to learn it slowly and methodically at first to establish a base skill set then speed up as one gains competence, it's all too easy to run head first into something and then bugger it up and come to the conclusion that you "can't" do something, unless you're a blithering idiot anyone can do most things it just usually takes patience and a careful approach.
I still fall victim to thinking I can't do things, I've always thought that I can't do poi as whenever I've tried I've epicly failed at it and hit myself square in the face with whatever I was doing it with, recently I forced myself to learn as we're working on a clone of this http://www.hackaday.com/2008/08/14/poiplay-led-poi/ and all it took was a little slow practice to get going.
As a kid I always thought that types who said things like "if you put your mind to it you can do anything" as a general statement were idealistic idiots, at the time I was struggling with severe dyslexia which resulted in rather horrific depression as whenever I tried to do school work that I completely understood but when pen hit paper everything just fell apart, it wasn't until my second year at university that I really started to get over my learning difficulties and as soon as I changed my mentality everything started going well.
I'm one of those annoying people who's good at all sorts of stuff. However, it's a curse since it means you spend your life pretty unfocussed and therefore never really specialise into anything where you could actually make a difference to the world.
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I'm also good at making excuses
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I'm also good at making excuses
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I'm one of those annoying people who's good at all sorts of stuff. However, it's a curse since it means you spend your life pretty unfocussed and therefore never really specialise into anything where you could actually make a difference to the world.
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I'm also good at making excuses
I can relate to this (well, both points
). I think it can be quite difficult to focus if you are good at a lot of things. I don't mean that in an arrogant way, as there's a vast and varied list of things I'm entirely terrible at, but if you're good at a lot of things and also enjoy doing a lot of things, it's hard to make that "right, this is what I'm going to do" kind of decision, because you always have a niggling idea that it wasn't the right thing to do. If one thing stood out, it would be easy to say "I'm going to do this" and to have to make it work, because it was your only (or best) chance. If there's lots of things, you're always wondering "what if?'.
I don't think I explained that very well (coherent posts clearly not being one of my strengths.
)my gift... i think it is helping ppl. i feel full of happiness when i see their smile faces after i help them.