What is something you can do that most people think is impressive, but really isn’t?
Posted Sep 11, 2020, 10:16 AM UTC
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I can name the flag, capital and location of about any country in the world. Of sounds impressive but i really isn't.
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ha, so diligence is a person...
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Tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue.
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Are you Audrey from Twin Peaks?
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I can pick locks and open car doors with a tennis ball
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How? Interesting
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With a rake and a pry, and for the tennis ball just put a hole in it and push it over the key hole
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Fly a plane
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You win
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Name every country and capital in the world.
I was learning mnemonic skills like the dominic system, the major system, the loci system, the PAO system etc.
After a while I wanted to see if I could use those skills for real and it worked.
It's easy as hell actually, you spend a big amount of time building your own system but once it's done, you can do cool shit.
I've stopped training my memory so I forgot a lot of things but that list is still there.
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diligence is strong in this thread...
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Being relaxed in front of a known or anonymous crowd, while speaking or performing.
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For some people this is really a big deal. Social anxiety is a difficult thing to overcome
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you are absolutly right, there. i've seen other people turn literally green behind a microphone. i'm sure it feels at least as bad to them, as beeing sea-sick. but i can not even imagine, why i should get nervous, if i'm well prepared. do you know that feeling, when something good happens and you immediately want to tell somebody? that's the feeling i get, right before stage. "people need to hear/see/know this". and go. i would be the worst teacher on how to overcome stage fright.
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Type 100+ words/minute. I'm glad I taught myself that skill, because it's satisfying to fly across the keyboard and type multiple paragraphs without error.
But like I said, it's a skill. Anyone who really wants to learn how can do it with practice. It's more like a feat of dexterity rather than intelligence.
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I fix computers, but most of the time I just turn it off and on again.
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You’ve been given a super power, don’t despise it.
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8th grade and I can code a website within two classes.
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Fit a whole Q-tip in my nose. Your sinuses go way farther back in your head then most people think. Well, it was more impressive until everyone started getting the covid test and saw how far they go with the q-tip for the test.
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I ride a bike to work every day. No matter the weather in central Europe. Somehow a lot of my colleagues are impressed by it. I just don't like waiting for the bus and am too lazy to buy/maintain a car.
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how far? and with mountains or on flat land?
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gleek spit 2 metres.
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I have no idea what that is, and I’m not sure I want to google it.
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He can squirt a stream of saliva a fairly far distance. Basically he can use water gun.
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So. Talented.
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Can do this but randomly
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what can you do, sie42?
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Most people in my family think that I'm a gifted tech wizard because I can format their PC, build my PC's on my own and change their phone ringtone.
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I can solve a Rubik’s cube in about thirty seconds. People stop and stare when I do it. They take videos.
Come on? Have you ever watched YouTube?! 30 seconds isn’t fast, not even close. It took a few months of practice to get there.
Same, but I'm sub 12.5.
That's cool.