What are you bad at doing?

Irwin said:
  • My sense of north is ass-backwards, so I can get lost pretty easily in a big building, or even a small building, or in the woods.
  • I can't bowl worth a damn.
  • I have a bad memory.
  • I tried for a few months, but couldn't learn to play the piano. I just couldn't remember all the chords and notes.
  • I suck at interpersonal relationships. At this point in my life, I'd rather hang out with my dog than with any people other than my wife.
  • I can never do anything right the first time. Seem the only way I can learn is by making mistakes.
  • I'm not good at tying up loose ends when I work on a project.
  • I suck at drywall work, or at least that was the case the last time I tried.
  • ... and many more...
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Always good to know our weaknesses. :)
 

hollydolly said:
very bad at recognising faces... I suffer from a moderate form of Prosopagnosia.. . I can only recognise a face if I've seen it lots of times and in the same place. If someone I've met only a few times approaches me away from the place to which I connect them, I won't recognise them.

I couldn't recognise my own baby when she was in hospital, and always worried each time that she was released from hospital after a procedure than I'd got the wrong child...even when I went to collect her from school, standing at the school gates she'd be the one running up to me and saying ''mum didn't you recognise me''? Thank goodness my daughter looks like a mix between her dad and me otherwise I might still have doubts..

It's been a real bind all my life.. people are always accusing me of being stuck up and ignoring them in the street , when in fact i just don't recognise them
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Wow, that must be very disconcerting. Your own daughter? Bit scary really
 
officerripley said:
1. Being interesting.
2. Being likable.
3. Anything of a creative nature.
4. Making anything look nice (or attractive or pretty or whatever), including myself when younger; now I don't care much what I look like.
5. Cooking (i.e., making anything taste good).
6. Trying to enjoy any kind of physicality.
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1. Not true.
2. Not true.
3. All your friends are glad they wont have to hang up your homemade Christmas presents.
4. All your friends are glad they don't have to dress up for comparisons.
5. All your fat friends are glad they won't be tempted by Christmas cookie gifts.
6. All your friends are glad they won't have to go bowling. (Irwin, too.)

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My own faults are too many to list (my singing makes the dog hide) but right now I'm most conscious of how bad I am at handling chaos and change in routine. Christmas always stresses me out.
 
WheatenLover said:
There is hardly anyone IRL whom I ask for advice. Coming here has been a real blessing because I get good advice. I think asking others for advice is a good thing, so one doesn't get stuck in one's head, unable to make a decision or making the wrong one, in hindsight. Even though I try to think of everything pertinent to the problem, I don't always do it. Also, my reasons for doing something may not be sound, because I want to avoid a consequence that is actually not mine to avoid.
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I get decision paralysis and asking for and getting advise can finally make me sway one way or the other.
 
Feelslikefar said:
Reading peoples intention.

Way to trusting.

' A Man's Word Is His Bond' was something I was taught, but not always I found out.
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My problem wasn't being too trusting of others, it was of not trusting my own instincts enough! After too many unpleasant consequences from giving people the 'benefit of the doubt', or 'another chance' i learned--i trust my instincts about people. i'm more likely to act on those instincts in person because then they are a 'potential threat'.

Online i, as another former Eons member put it: Take what people say at face value unless they are asking for love or money from me--then i investigate. Sometimes it's a little depressing how often my instincts are right about how problematic some people can be if you give them chance.
 
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Lawrence said:
I an bad at doing things that other people want me to do. Some times I make an attempt to do the job when I can not get out of it. Then I do the job so badly they dont ask me to do another job.
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Sometimes seems like a lot of people use this strategy. They never seem to stop to think about how many things others do for them that if they had their druthers they wouldn't do or would use the same strategy to avoid.
 
Murrmurr said:
I'm bad at math. I understand basic math just fine, but in school I got lost at Algebra and beyond.
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Oh yes, algebra.
I still don't see how A + B= 12 o_O to the 10th power.

I used to have to copy off the girl who sat behind me, and my teacher knew.

He wrote something once at the top of my paper..'to err is human, to ____?_____ is divine'....or something like that.

ETA: to err is human, to forgive, divine.........
 
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Murrmurr said:
I'm bad at math. I understand basic math just fine, but in school I got lost at Algebra and beyond.
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I was told by a college algebra professor that there are two types of math skills. One type gets the 'higher' math forms tho they often make errors in basic math functions within their calculations & formulas. The other, you and me both, get lost in trying to do higher math but can do basic math Just fine.

I almost always do the math in my checkbook, right there at counter and i had a cashier express surprise i could do it so quickly in my head. She'll write down the amount but needs a calculator to do the math
 
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