What skill do you accept you don't have but still admire in others?

[hippy dave]

Give birth

Not sure you'd define it as a skill, more a natural process like eating and pooping.

 

[JuanMena]

Interesting, Tom.
I always assumed you'd have found a way to cheat the system of learning.

In my case, I don't think there's something I'd envy from others.
Maybe... coding/programming... but that's more blaim to me than "biology said no"

In my way of thinking, I'd usually cheat the learning methods by skipping the basics and learning what's necesario to achieve the goal, and going back to basics if needed.

Think about it like this: If you try to learn a new language, say, English (given you're not a native) you'd be better off learning to say complete sentences first and it's meaning than wasting time forcing yourself yto learn verbs, conjugations, grammar rules, etc.
So cheat your way by skipping what's unecessary for the main goal (in this case speaking full sentences) and you'll learn everything in between by default.

Not everything has to be approached like mathematics or something that requires rational snd structured thinking. If you implement logic to everything, it becomes easier to learn.

In that way of thinking, and going back a bit, I don't think there's something I can't learn.

Drawing? Done. And everything that came with it like, Mechanical/Projections/Technical/Fashion/Interior Design/Anatomical drawing.
Music theory? Done with Pythagoras Intervals.
Cooking? Done.
Math related stuff? Done, everything is broken down to basic operations.
Writing? Done so good that I have two awards on that matter.

As for everything else that might come, either don't care/not interested, or it's useless to me.

If there's something I'd like to have that other has, might be empathy.

EDIT: If anyone replies, tell me something that people has and that money can't buy.

 

[FAST6191]

I always assumed you'd have found a way to cheat the system of learning.

If you mean actual schooling then yes I did. Exam technique, analysis of exam patterns, doing enough to comfortably pass exams but ultimately not caring... if school was a prison (granted that is more of a US thing) I was king of the prison hustle and was so from very young.
In my case as a bonus I was born with an exceptional memory it seems (not eidetic but not so far off at times) and find myself basically a walking dictionary with no great effort on my part (which also seems to work for other languages), whilst also able to play with high level maths concepts (chances are someone that works at a bar will beat me at mental arithmetic, though I am by no means bad, but that matters little in the long run when it is pure abstraction that is the ideal). My parents (both familiar with all manner of psychology and teaching people) and later myself funded all sorts of tools and things to learn what I liked, learn how to learn* and break an awful lot of stuff along the way to do it**, which only helped with the school part as baseline passing could be done even more easily.

*turns out boring lessons in front of a blackboard (I am old remember) is not the way for me and thus dodged it/paid it lipservice where others suffered it inefficiencies.

**I always find those that are scared to break their computer are never going to learn it. I broke mine, which usually just means reformatting, plenty of times.

 

[JuanMena]

If you mean actual schooling then yes I did.

No, I meant in general.
Like if you suddenly want to learn something new, you'd already know how to go straight to the point instead of dealing with nonsense.

 

[XDel]

Willful ignorance

 

[Veho]

Willful ignorance

Aww, don't sell yourself short, buddy! We believe in you!

 

[FAST6191]

No, I meant in general.
Like if you suddenly want to learn something new, you'd already know how to go straight to the point instead of dealing with nonsense.

That is a skill in and of itself -- librarians don't know everything but they are usually exceptionally good at finding things and research.

Also it is something of a snowball effect for a lot of things.
Few years back I decided to take up machining in earnest -- an engineering degree gave some appreciation but for the most part it was a week's course at the end of a school year (and not even a late stage one where you might have already known a bit) to mean you were not a complete liability when you designed something or had to speak to a machinist to make/repair your parts. What helped more is the 5000 force diagrams given as part of homework and whatnot that caused such things to be second nature/subconcious when dealing with something, knowing what all the common materials are and their general position in the hierarchy of such things, frequency analysis (chatter) being a boring trick and years of fiddling with CAD (and engineering drawing) meaning such things gave a massive boost over things.
Repeat that for electronics (granted I biased said degree to things), computers (granted that has been a personal interest for a lot longer), chemistry (it was biased there by default), law (standards lookup is much the same thing) and whatever else has caught my interest (notice most of those are closely related) and yeah I can usually be dangerous in a field in a far shorter timeframe than someone going in completely cold and having to do the fundamentals.

 

[AncientBoi]

My answer is simple. Cooking

 

[Takokeshi]

My answer is simple. Cooking

There are a lot of channels on youtube you could get inspiration from!

 

[Creamu]

Graphic art. Toddlers are more talented than I could ever be and I am okay with that.

Show example please.

 

[DKB]

Drawing.

 

[Glyptofane]

I am not an artist and nerve damage has made it a near impossibly for me to become an artist. But I have a deep appreciation for artists because I have a lot of ideas and no means of making them happen myself.

There may still be some less structured, unconventional methods in which you can create and express yourself through art. Any good artist works within their limitations. I hope you can find your way.

 

[The Catboy]

There may still be some less structured, unconventional methods in which you can create and express yourself through art. Any good artist works within their limitations. I hope you can find your way.

That’s kind of why I developed a skill of being able to explain things in extremely painful details. It helps when making a character sheet to be as detailed as possible.

 

[Dark_Phoras]

The ability to read and write music, the prowess of a good singer and the dexterity of a good musician with their instrument.

 

[hippy dave]

The ability to read and write music, the prowess of a good singer and the dexterity of a good musician with their instrument.

The ability to read music is very learnable. Same with the technical end of writing music, tho that doesn't help with the creativity.

 

[RichardTheKing]

Programming. I've tried several different languages, but it's still incomprehensible gibberish to me; as a result, I greatly admire anyone who can reverse-engineer a game, or create a GUI to make editing ROMs significantly easier.

 

[CoolMe]

Drumming. Something in my physiology is completely wrong for this particular skill. I can mimic it for a short period and then all of a sudden I have what feels like an involuntary compulsion to change tempo.

Mimic? Well if you know the basics, you're confortable playing stuff in 4:4, a slight increase increase tempo shouldnt be difficult, you'd increase the speed incrementally until you're confortable with it, and you can speed it up again playing the same beat..
As for the "involuntary compulsion to change tempo" not sure what you exactly mean by that, do you mean it's a biological thing keeping you from holding a steady beat either mentally or physically..
There's also different kinds of drumming, if one style doesn't fit you you can try other styles, different genres, i can go into more details as i'm a drummer as well so i could recommend you stuff if you need me to.

 

[CraddaPoosta]

Twerking. God bless each and every one of you who can throw dat ass in a circle. You're doing The Lord's Work.

 

[CoolMe]

The ability to read and write music,

First, before learning that you should hear alot of music, now i'm not you don't already, but you need to set up a point of reference of what you want your music to sound like, at least 2 influences or so, as you don't wanna copy & paste a sound from just one source.
And with more music you listen to, the more you add to your sound. Try to listen to albums as a whole, and not just bits and pieces of hit songs etc. to get a rounder idea of how & what an artist can create, and how he shape his sound through multiple, if not, related song structure..
Singing after your fav songs, will sometimes make you mishear or change some of the lyrics, adding to them (like verses etc.) and improvising, and that does help alot in the process of starting to write your own songs as well.

the prowess of a good singer

Well you're stuck with your voice, and if you're going for a style or a range that's out of your biological limit then you're not being realistic, and you're setting yourself up for failure. otherwise everyone has a unique innate voice that could sing well when tuned properly, you should practice singing your fav songs, and aim for a specific style of singing.
You can also take singing lessons, but that depends on how much serious you're about it.

and the dexterity of a good musician with their instrument.

Hmm.. Same as above, listen to crap ton of music, pop is not that complicated, same for metal, rock, blues etc. You want to narrow down a specific style or genre first before expanding, and focus in the instrument that interests you, learn the basics, see covers of your fav songs on how they're played, try to recreate some of that etc.

The ability to read music is very learnable. Same with the technical end of writing music,

I wouldn't start with reading music first, learning through hearing is much better at first. Though one could use both methods, and switch between them if one is stuck in one or the other..

tho that doesn't help with the creativity.

Agreed!

 

[CoolMe]

Country music singers of the past. Now, modern Country are more like Pop singers so it makes me appreciate them more.

I don't dislike Pop (love it too), but if I want to listen to a specific genre then it matters.

Modern pop country sucks. Period.

Show example please.

You're the one to talk.. Your drawings suck the most.