What is something that you could never learn to do?

[debodun]

With me it was playing a piano. I can play wind instruments, but there you only have to concentrate on playing one note at a time. On a piano, there's 10 fingers each doing something different at once and all those notes on the sheet music!

 

[Born_To_Lose]

Cook

 

[Devi]

Skydive.

 

[dilettante]

Speak another language. I studied several, always got good marks. But thinking in one well enough to converse... never. I believe I was using the wrong parts of my brain.

 

[Wren]

I’ve never driven, I just always knew I would not have the concentration and focus needed to learn and to drive a car

 

[Marie5656]

I am with @debodun about not being able to grasp the concept of reading music or playing an instrument. I always wanted to learn piano or guitar, but have never been able to

 

[bobcat]

Be a follower.
(Just not my style)

 

[dobielvr]

Sew.
My mother used to sew some of our clothes, but I never had the desire to learn.
I don't know why. I can remember laying out the fabric and then laying the pattern on top of it, but that's as far as I cared to go.

 

[RadishRose]

Read music
Crochet

 

[perplexed]

Garden, I love and notice pretty yards but I kill everything planted in the ground.

 

[palides2021]

With me it was playing a piano. I can play wind instruments, but there you only have to concentrate on playing one note at a time. On a piano, there's 10 fingers each doing something different at once and all those notes on the sheet music!

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when I was 16, I taught myself to play the piano, painstakingly slow. It took me a couple of years to get comfortable enough to play all the notes in the music. Meanwhile, I started playing my own music by ear or made it up as I went. There are no rules.

 

[palides2021]

Build a house.

 

[hollydolly]

Sew.
My mother used to sew some of our clothes, but I never had the desire to learn.
I don't know why. I can remember laying out the fabric and then laying the pattern on top of it, but that's as far as I cared to go.

Me too..absolutely cannot grasp the concept of it..never could even at school...

 

[chic]

So far everything I've really wanted to do and spent time learning to do, I've been able to do. I would be tense about electricity but I haven't studied it so could probably do it if I took the time to learn. Not trying to sound arrogant, just honest. Ditto with car repair.

 

[hollydolly]

Build a house.

have you tried ?

 

[hollydolly]

Garden, I love and notice pretty yards but I kill everything planted in the ground.

have you tried now since you can follow instruction on the internet..?

 

[hollydolly]

Read music
Crochet

Rose.. Crochet is very easy..if I can do it, you can do it I;m sure..

 

[Sippican]

Brain surgery...or anything surgical for that matter..

 

[gruntlabor]

Speak another language. I studied several, always got good marks. But thinking in one well enough to converse... never. I believe I was using the wrong parts of my brain.

It really helps to visit a country that speaks that language.

I can't use a smart phone, I can't help it, I can't figure it out.

 

[hollydolly]

It really helps to visit a country that speaks that language.

I can't use a smart phone, I can't help it, I can't figure it out.

I understand, if my husband hadn't shown me years ago how to use one I would have been struggling... but today it's much easier because there's easy tutorials online..youtube etc...

 

[hollydolly]

Speak another language. I studied several, always got good marks. But thinking in one well enough to converse... never. I believe I was using the wrong parts of my brain.

I learned French at school.. absolutely useless when I went to France, I ended up just knowing Nouns...and verbs.. ''La Maison Blanc '' etc...

..but after I went to live in Italy , and Spain later.. I could speak a real passable street language within a year

 

[VaughanJB]

Surgeon. No way I could cut into someone else, and play around with their inside bits. It's not the blood, it's the goop.

 

[dobielvr]

Me too..absolutely cannot grasp the concept of it..never could even at school...

The last thing I wanted to be doing was sitting behind a sewing machine.

 

[hollydolly]

The last thing I wanted to be doing was sitting behind a sewing machine.

TBH...altho' I found it boring.. I did want to learn.. and I wish I;d been able to.. I'm not a ''craft'' persn, but being able to sew with a machine would have saved so much money over the years...

The other thing I could never do... much to my regret is be a hairdresser ( more to the point a Hair Stylists.. again I wish I could have learned.. but the horror of cutting someone's hair differently to how they'd want it, gives me nightmares, and I've never even done it ( aside from trimming my daughters' when she was small)

 

[perplexed]

have you tried now since you can follow instruction on the internet..?

No not really I am now too old, if I got down on the ground to plant something I could not get up without help.I do love to see pretty yards though. I bet you can grow anything????