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Title: What is your talent?
Post by: kitten on Oct 12 06 09:16
Greycat mentioned the idea of a topic to express your own particular talent.  Mine is "Listener".  I hear an off note as soon as it is played, and since my late husband was a musician he found it a useful talent to have.  He transcribed scores to different keys, and I would check for accuracy. Badly played music makes my skin crawl.
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: Sportsdude on Oct 12 06 09:29
My dad was a music prodigy. He played the organ at church from 10 years old. I got his singing voice but thats it. Can't play an instrument but I know when something is off and such.

  I'm good at taking pictures.

Driving very long distances without getting tired. (Drove from Saint Louis to Sarasota Florida non stop, Saint Louis to Denver) Saint Louis to Akron Ohio, Akron Ohio to Boston.

Poetry

history

geography

I don't get lost

tall

nice

good listener

helping people
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: kitten on Oct 12 06 09:38
That's a good, positive list.
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: Sportsdude on Oct 12 06 09:44
Yeah I must think positive. Not negative. The stuff thats giving me negative thoughts is just that thoughts and don't mean anything.
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: P.C. on Oct 12 06 10:05
I like to create things and I'm inventive .  I get extra enjoyment, if I can make something out of salvaged materials or to totally 'repurpose' something.  
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: Sportsdude on Oct 12 06 10:06
I love doing that. That means you're not wasteful PC
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: P.C. on Oct 12 06 10:15
Absolutely Sportsdude.

  I just like the way it feels to make something beautiful out of things that are no longer useful as what they are.
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: Russ on Oct 12 06 10:18
What do you mean by repurpose something? Make it useful for something else?

  Dunno what I could say for talents for me.

  I like working with my hands and thinking around a problem. When I solve something with my work, I get a feeling of accomplishment.

Im easy to get along with, and I am constantly surrounded by friends.

  I hate studying though.  
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: P.C. on Oct 12 06 10:23
What do you mean by repurpose something? Make it useful for something else?



Exactly.  My mom and dad were both like that too.
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: weird al on Oct 12 06 10:37
I'm a great procrastinator; at rationalising I am the greatest.
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: P.C. on Oct 12 06 10:45
lol, weird al.....that's one of my specialties too.

  I was also going to say I'm very organized.....but I'm actually looking for a dvd RIGHT NOW, that has some pictures of some things I've made, but be darned if I know where it is.  
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: Moolah! on Oct 13 06 03:11
My hidden talent...









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Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: purelife on Oct 13 06 08:50
 I hate studying though.

 


LOL.  Same here.  Studying is a 4-letter word in my mind.

 Hmmm, I don't know if I have a "talent" but I have a wonderful/charming/seductive smile/grin that makes people comfortable to be around me.  Umm, whatever that means.

 

Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: Lise on Oct 13 06 09:46
Oh wow. I'm in a room fill with very, very talented ppl.

  For me, I can paint a bit or sketch though not as brilliant as say, greycat.

  I sing most wonderfully in the bathroom.

  I can give birth anytime, anywhere.... BEAT THAT, YOU MEN!!!

  And the cream on the top, breast feed faster than you can unbutton that top. Booyah!
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: TehBorken on Oct 13 06 10:05
   Lise wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]I can give birth anytime, anywhere.... BEAT THAT, YOU MEN!!![/div]
I can cause a pregnancy anytime, anywhere...does that count? (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/14.gif)  


[/div] [div style="font-style: italic;"]And the cream on the top, breast feed faster than you can unbutton that top. Booyah!
I suppose I'd really have to see a live demo before I could comment. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/14.gif)  I'm pretty good at the unbuttoning-the-top thing, though.    
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: TehBorken on Oct 13 06 10:06
Alas and alack, I have no real talents.
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: P.C. on Oct 13 06 10:10
I hate to be a differ beggar, TehBorken.....but you are amazingly talented. (and a carpenter to boot [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c032.gif" border=0])
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: Adam_Fulford on Oct 13 06 11:17
In all honesty, I'm not sure I have any particular talents.  I'm involved in screenwriting and film/TV projects because I enjoy doing that, but not any great talent per se.  I'm not particularly brilliant or anything.  I wouldn't call having a knack for always learning things the hard way as a talent.  Weirdly, I feel empowered by my honesty -- no need to divert energy on bullshitting.  
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: Gopher on Oct 13 06 11:17
Writing - and patience.
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: kitten on Oct 13 06 11:20
Patience IS a talent, and a rare one.
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: Gopher on Oct 13 06 11:21
I have it in such vast quantities that sometime - alas - it turns into apathy.
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: kitten on Oct 13 06 11:23
That's one of the nasty side effects of patience.  I just remembered another talent I have...empathy.  Occasionally overwhelmingly so.
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: Gopher on Oct 13 06 11:25
And when it's overwhelming, it's neither a  pleasant NOR  good quality to have.  
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: kitten on Oct 13 06 11:28
Es verdad, senor.
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: Gopher on Oct 13 06 11:30
It certainly is, senora.
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: Adam_Fulford on Oct 13 06 11:36
 kitten wrote:
That's one of the nasty side effects of patience.  I just remembered another talent I have...empathy.  Occasionally overwhelmingly so.


Empathy is a talent?  Interesting.  I guess it does take some intelligence to envision other people's point of view and be receptive to what they're feeling.  I'm constantly baffled by the lack of  empathy I witness in others; it almost seems like stupidity...except in the case of sociopaths who are aware of others' feelings and use it to manipulate them, but don't actually give a hoot about their well-being.  Many Republican leaders such as Karl Rove are sociopaths.



 
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: Lise on Oct 13 06 01:04
TehBorken wrote:
[DIV style="FONT-STYLE: italic"]I can [SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"]cause[/SPAN] a pregnancy anytime, anywhere...does that count? (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/14.gif)  


I suppose I'd really have to see a live demo before I could comment. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/14.gif)  I'm pretty good at the unbuttoning-the-top thing, though.    

 

 LOL. That was funny. I actually peed a bit. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/2.gif)[FONT color=#ff0000] [FONT size=1](OK, no peeing but you get the drift)[/FONT][/FONT]


 
Title: Re: What is your talent?
Post by: Sportsdude on Oct 13 06 01:05
LOL I knew this topic would turn to sex.