Do you have a gift? Maybe just a minor talent for doing something better than others?

[Karen99]

I have been reading this thread for awhile trying to figure out my hidden talent or gift and I'm tired of racking my brain......I've finally come to the conclusion that I'm not good at diddly squat.

Well, you're using a computer, Ike...you're way ahead of lots of folks

 

[Debby]

Okay, I've gotten over my natural modesty and shyness ...

I'm a very good martial arts teacher. In fact, I made it my career for over 30 years. I still have a private student I've been teaching for 15 years.

Also, and this will sound wacky, I had a certain talent for making large, complicated dollhouses from scratch. It started when my wife said she had never had a dollhouse as a child. For our next anniversary I planned on giving her one.

But instead of doing what a normal, sane person would do - going to the store and buying one already made, or at least a kit - I decided to make this one by hand. I cut scale 2"x4"s and 2"x6"s, cut the flooring out of sheets of exotic woods and marble, installed working electricity and plumbing ... the project just ran away with me.

It ended up finished one day before our anniversary - a 4'x4'x3' monster, built so that it could hinge open in three pieces and mounted on its own table.

After a few people saw it they started asking if I could make one for them. I eventually started a lucrative side-business building dollhouses and ended up exhibiting at a few major shows up and down the East coast.

You sound like you've led an interesting life Phil. Lots of variety in your interests.

I did a dollhouse once. I didn't have lots of tools so it was pretty basic but I thought it was cute and I had fun building and decorating it. I can't remember what I did with it because my girls weren't interested in it at all. But you obviously went a lot further than I did. Do you have any photos of your work? I'd love to see one.

 

[fureverywhere]

I don't know if it's a gift or just my personality...but babies and small children, dogs, cats, small furry creatures, feeble seniors. Somehow they're drawn to me. Guess it's being a petite, soft spoken, multipurpose grandma. A screaming toddler or big scary dog, I can smile and they smile back. If I could have passed the math in nursing school I would have specialized in dementia patients.

 

[Debby]

I have been reading this thread for awhile trying to figure out my hidden talent or gift and I'm tired of racking my brain......I've finally come to the conclusion that I'm not good at diddly squat.

Sometimes things you take for granted are sort of a hidden talent. I had a friend who was great at remembering our relationship and that was special. I'm not good at that like she was. For example, her husband and her and my husband and I shared an anniversary date. So in the four years that we knew her, we used to go out for dinner together.

Well the year that she was dying, our anniversary date arrived and she was in the hospital during an 'episode', and I totally forgot about our anniversaries, but she remembered and she called and wished us a Happy Anniversary! That's when I sort of woke up to a realization that I tend to take relationships for granted or at least I think I do. But she had a gift for remembering to share her love even when she had the best excuse in the world to forget. Maybe you have a hidden gift like that?

I don't know if it's a gift or just my personality...but babies and small children, dogs, cats, small furry creatures, feeble seniors. Somehow they're drawn to me. Guess it's being a petite, soft spoken, multipurpose grandma. A screaming toddler or big scary dog, I can smile and they smile back. If I could have passed the math in nursing school I would have specialized in dementia patients.

Anytime you can influence people like that, it's a gift I think.

 

[FazeFour]

I don't know if it's a gift or just my personality...but babies and small children, dogs, cats, small furry creatures, feeble seniors. Somehow they're drawn to me. Guess it's being a petite, soft spoken, multipurpose grandma. A screaming toddler or big scary dog, I can smile and they smile back. If I could have passed the math in nursing school I would have specialized in dementia patients.

Whoever created the nursing test must have put too much emphasis on the math. The math part of nursing is something anyone can easily pick up in practice. You were ROBBED, Fur!

Like you, babies and small children seem drawn to me. I can calm them or make them smile or get a hug without even trying. Here's a strange incident: about 15 years ago, I was sitting on the stoop of my apartment and within 15 minutes half-a-dozen neighborhood kids were sitting with me. We quietly chatted until I said "Well, I'd better get inside." And this little boy said, "Ok, but first, why do you have clowns all around you?" and his older sister said, "Those aren't clowns, stupid, those are angels."

I didn't ask Joshy what the heck he was talking about. I just told the girl that calling her brother 'stupid' probably made him feel bad, and my goosebumps and I went inside.

 

[GeorgiaXplant]

After giving this subject a good bit of thought...no. I don't have any gifts. I don't have any talents, either.

I used to edit my husband's articles for technical and trade journals and submissions to other kinds of magazines. I edited both of his books but don't think it counts because, after all, English is my mother tongue.

Fur...the job with your name on it could very well be as an activities director in a nursing/rehab facility.

 

[oldman]

You could be a one man band. Have you thought of recording a clip for YouTube? it might go viral...

I have done two videos, but only share them with family and a few friends. I like keeping a low profile, which at 6'4" is sometimes hard to do.

 

[Shalimar]

Georgia, you have the talent for seeing life as it really is, that is rare. You also make people laugh, you are funny!

 

[Manatee]

I am extremely competent at holding my recliner down so that it doesn't blow away. Of course the only wind in our living room is from the ceiling fan which runs at low speed when it is on.

 

[Ameriscot]

After giving this subject a good bit of thought...no. I don't have any gifts. I don't have any talents, either.

I used to edit my husband's articles for technical and trade journals and submissions to other kinds of magazines. I edited both of his books but don't think it counts because, after all, English is my mother tongue.

Fur...the job with your name on it could very well be as an activities director in a nursing/rehab facility.

You're an excellent virtual travel companion!