Most of us are skilled in at least one idle discipline or pursuit. Some are skilled in many. What is your superpower?
Do you know when a watermelon is ripe by tapping on it? Do you actually understand Scientology? Are you a master of all things beer pong? Can you do TCP/IP sub-netting in your head in IPv6? Do you speak more than one language?
It takes 3.8 seconds to make you’re wife a screaming banshee? Hold my beer, I’ll turn mine into one in 2 seconds flat, in fact it happens several times a week.
No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain
Posts: 3684 | Location: TX | Registered: October 08, 2005
I can, single handedly, turn an easy project into an all day cuss fest.
If you're goin' through hell, keep on going. Don't slow down. If you're scared don't show it. You might get out before the devil even knows you're there.
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Posts: 7364 | Location: Arkansas | Registered: November 06, 2010
1) I'm pretty good at sniffing out bullshit, or most any kind of shit. 2) My investment choices seem to contradict rule #1. 3) IPv6 subnetting in my head? Sure, no problem. It's only 128 bits after all.
Posts: 6933 | Location: NoVA | Registered: July 22, 2009
Memory. Not a savant, as in people who you could say March 1st, 1986, and they know the day of the week it was, temp that day, current issues or politics of that day/time. I have what I call selective photographic memory. In some ways I am a savant, especially as it pertains to my work. Others would need to spend a considerable amount of time to look things up, I can recall them on the fly.
Negotiation. I'm hell on wheels. Whether it be contract work on my house, negotiating on a car deal, or at work where I do most of it. Seldom do I lose.
Driving/riding. I can anticipate what people will do (usually stupid shit) before they even do it. People will be in the car saying "How did you know they were going to do that?" Same at a bar or something. The guy that is in there to fight and raise hell or do something crazy, I'd move our group as far away as possible anticipating that something was going to go down. Sometimes I was wrong, nothing happened, but 70% of the time I called it. I guess I can read body language better than most.
What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone
Posts: 13129 | Location: Down South | Registered: January 16, 2010
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
Posts: 20255 | Location: The Free State of Arizona - Ditat Deus | Registered: March 24, 2011
