Might sound like a weird idea but I think it could be interesting. Basically, is there anything that you are very good at, but you never knew it until someone else told you? It can be anything. Doesn't even have to be a useful skill. Or maybe you just totally underestimated yourself. Can even be a personality trait, like if someone said you one of the nicest people they've ever met but you had never thought that. Or it can be just a really abstract thing that you are really good that that has no real applications. For example, way back in college during the Halo 4 days, I thought I was just pretty good at the game. Then one day my friend went to the matchmaking rank website and found that I was something like 58th overall in the entire game. Has anything like that ever happened to you? Let's keep the humblebrags to a maximum.
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Kind of similar, but I got a horrible score on my math portion for my ACT. Never thought I'd be good at math, even went an entire semester my junior year of HS not doing a single assignment. I was that bad. Then I got to college and had to take the required calc and stats classes and needed tutors because my skills were so far behind. It turns out I actually enjoyed the practice after I got past the initial feeling like an idiot at the first sign of struggle. Took my calc, intro stats, and intermediate stats classes final exams in pen. Got A's on all the finals. I was always just too afraid to feel like an idiot in HS to ask for help, that I just accepted being bad at it. Turns out that things get easier when you put more work and effort into it, who knew?
Same thing happened to me with math. Was utter dogshit with like basic algebra and geometry, then had a really awesome teacher for calculus junior year of high school and another one for statistics senior year. Totally flipped a switch in my brain and went from being a C math student to somewhat competent.
It is definitely a subject that is harder for me to try and do self-study outside of class/tutor sessions. A good teacher that's engaging can make all the difference.
Yup very similar situation. I a.ways thought I sucked at math because I’d never get better than a C but then in junior year of HS I just started getting it. Reality was that I just started asking for help lol.
Along the lines of a personality trait.
I'm a pretty normal guy, but definitely skew towards introversion than extraversion. Everyone can be a clown when their with their buddies but in general I would say I am a little quiet. I offered to drive somebody I knew from school home from a poker game one night, and half-way through the drive he turns and says, "You know, I think some people think you may be intimidating, but you're actually a really good guy". Genuinely have no fucking idea how I come across in either of those ways, but I guess I'll take it?
Along the lines of video games, I was ranked #8 in Watch Dogs which was one of my favorite games. I also used to be competitive with Gears of War and MW2, but never that highly ranked. I also was top 20 in Forza 2. I really like video games, but haven’t played in years because I have a bad habit of not knowing when to stop.
Along the similar line of personality traits, I do have a capability of being very obsessive about singular topics. A lot of people who know me tend to think I’m not risk averse and change life plans drastically, but I spend hours constantly thinking about something/ doing something. I can spend 18 hours a day just on something if I really like it. As you can imagine, this is definitely not always a good thing and has numerous downsides.
I'm that way with music. Since I have a music taste that not many people know about it I can go on and on talking about it in the rare instance that the opportunity presents itself
What’s your music taste?
I resonate with both things you said I think we might be the same person lol
This isn’t the place to flirt
In 2014, I was living with a religious group in a country outside of the US. We would play board games in our free time and there were some cards so we played card games and then eventually we started playing poker with plastic chips. I had never played poker before so I slowly began to pick up the game and then I started dominating. I would usually win the games and my motivation to stay in the game was just because I didn't want to get knocked out and have nothing to do and didn't want to play scrabble or something. So basically two seminarians and a Catholic priest taught me how to play No Limit Texas Hold'em. They knew I was good and said 'don't play online and go to the casinos' when you leave. So that's exactly what I did.
I trained for 6 months playing for free in 2014 and then in January 2015 started playing for money online with plans to play live in casinos as well. I went to my first live tourney in Hollywood FL at the Hard Rock Seminole casino. I entered for $150 and made $1400. I continued to win online and was playing on 5 different sites. I got real lucky for 6 months and did well, even though looking back my game was weak then. I got burned out real bad too as I was playing full time then. I took a look at what I was doing with my life and decided I needed to do something more beneficial to society so then decided to go into Neuroscience research in 2016. I was in the medical field as a research intern in Neuroimaging that year as well as in biotech clinical trials for dementia / Alzheimer's as my mom got it and I thought I could help to find a cure. Neuroscience research was a lot slower to gain progress than I imagined, but we did do some interesting brain scans, like this one (Alex Honnold - world's greatest free climber):
https://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greate…
Impressive. I always enjoy your poker posts
Thanks bro. I'm slaying it right now in a $20K GTD.
thought I was a loser because girls didn't like me and then woke up one day and realized that i'm a genius, a creative genius, how amusing is that, you think you are a loser for so long because you are focused on the wrong thing when the whole time you were actually a genius
legitimate genius level natural creativity
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I would tell you but I don't know
Somebody tell me what I'm good at
You wear a suit well
Probably the world's greatest procrastinator.
I functioned as the world's greatest procrastinator in college. I would leave deadlines so late that I'd write long papers the night before the due date. In fact, for 8am deadlines, I'd often start at 2am. My english teacher in college used to tell me that the 'pressure made me fresher' - I typically got all As.
Guessing/Odds games. I never knew how good I was at guessing numbers 1-10, playing higher or lower, roulette, etc. until I went on a casino cruise and turned $20 into $5000 playing roulette. I know technically it’s luck. But, I refuse to believe that. Something just comes to me when I need to guess black or red. Visualization is key for me.
I have the high score at that punching arcade game at a bar somewhere in new orleans
for some reason dana white still won't return my calls
I remember trying that and damn near breaking my hand on the follow through. Never again
There was a ski-ball machine at a bar where I went to college. If you got a certain score you got a free pitcher of busch light, and someone I know never got a score beneath the cutoff so he always had basically $1 beer pitchers his entire time at school.
in a life or death situation I could probably give a mean handjob
Speaking from experience?
There was some trivia app I played when I was like 13 and I was ranked #2 in the country for Halo Trivia. Knew my Halo lore down cold
Public speaking. I’m somewhat reserved by nature and never really thought I was good at speaking in front of people because I’d always give awkward presentations in HS. But in freshmen year of college I took a public speaking course and managed to do really well in the class. I just forced myself to get over the nerves and pretended like I was confident until I was.
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Despite being an introvert and borderline autistic, I have no problem with public speaking and also have been told more than once that I'm able to inspire people.
Apparently I am really good at tennis, despite never having played it more than once or twice in my life
Reading. I can read and understand text very quickly. I was tested in 5th grade and was already on a college reading level. It helped on the SAT but haven’t been able to apply this special skill in many situations.
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