SKILLS/VIRTUES YOU HAVE OR WISHED YOU HAD.

I don't do anything particularly that well at all. I wish I draw, or have some sort of artistic or musical talent apart from epic guitar fail. I'd like to be able to juggle more than two things (shhh! It does count as juggling and nothing you can say will change it!)

I'm alright at sports too, I wasn't the last kid to be picked or anything and I have a lot of stamina...maybe that's just competitiveness blocking out the lack of breathing I'm probably getting. I have a kind of wild/ good imagination. Like Y'know when someone asks you what you're thinking about, and you answer honestly and in detail and then they think it's totally weird and brings an awkward silence?... Yeah that's a good thing to have.

For some reason I wish I was ambidextrous.

It's impossible to say this without sounding like an arrogant dick, but I've always picked up new things really quickly. I have the problem of being good at too many things. At some points this has helped foster gridlock in life, causing me to drift without direction.

That said, there are a few things I simply cannot do. Those include washing dishes, keeping my work and living space tidy, and catching a baseball. (no depth perception)

I wish I was more patient with people who take life slowly and go with the flow. I'm pretty sure I come off like an ass to these types of people since I'm usually going at a breakneck pace.

author=harmonic link=topic=1522.msg23810#msg23810 date=1216062095
It's impossible to say this without sounding like an arrogant dick,

You're right. I didn't read the rest of your absolutely shitty post.

I am the greatest.

I had the highest average in high school, MVP of the volleyball team, fastest person on the track team, highest scorer on my hockey team, highest wage earner of my siblings, a decent artist, and I pick things up even quicker than harmonic.

My problem is I am too humble. (Actually, it's my apathy and lack of motivation and ambition - I am not ambitious at all. I drift completely without direction. Plus, I grow bored very easily).

I wish I had some musical talent.

I wish I had more patien

I wish I had some artistic talent.
Like musically, or drawing or something.

Also I wish I was authorized to train uneducated platypusi.

Either way it was immensely hilarious.

author=YummyDrumsticks link=topic=1522.msg23800#msg23800 date=1216058514
Are there any skills that you are good at? Or skills you wished you had?

As for virtues, I am generally very organized and responsible. When there are important projects I go out of the way to make sure its going well and everything is getting done. However, I have a tendency to be extremely forgetful which, as you can imagine, causes a lot of problems. As a friend I am pretty laxed and nice person, but when IIbecome partners or coworkers with others on school or business related projects, I act like a completely different person. I have this extremely short temper when working with certain types of people and, when provoked, I can go balistic. I think WIP knows about this pretty well!

As for virtues, I am often damn good at keeping tidy and organized. While I wouldn't claim to be a Rembrandt, I am alright when it comes to art too.

Well, what virtues do you wish you had?

As for me, one skill that people usually tell me that I have is that I am very, very good with people. I am the kind of guy which dates parents love, walks out of the first day of school friends with half the class, and convince professors to turn C's into B's. I never have trouble getting up the courage to talk to that girl and I find it pretty easy to strike up a conversation with absolutely anyone.

However, I attribute this to things like my skills of inflection of the voice, body language, and well, I ain't a bad lookin' dude. However, since none of that matters over the Internet, I find it really awkward to talk to people online at first because I can't touch, hear, or even smell them.

But people skills is one thing I'm good at. The rest is subjective.

However, one thing I wish I did well was time management. I'm terrible at it. I'm good at getting things done, but on my own time. When I have to adhere to a schedule, I certainly can get it done, but I feel awkward and stilted because I hate being on a time limit or feeling compelled to do something on someone else's time.

I want to be humble like how Jesus talked about. :-X

I wish I had more people skills, or at least the ability to keep a straight face for a long period of time while my friend talks to random strangers, considering he'll say something freakin' hilarious/a lie straight to them and I just start busting up and they have no idea why.

I wish I had a rather good guitar and violin playing ability. I have musical talent in the percussion category, just not those two particular instruments. I normally play snare during marching season which is a whoooole lot harder than people think it is. I wish I had the ability to convince the colorguard (flag people with the marching band) to not suck up every performance known to mankind. How the heck can you screw that up EVERY TIME! It's simple counting and movement. I can understand not catching a flag once in awhile when they throw it upwards, but just basic moving the flag... it's literally pathetic watching it.

I wish I was better at not ranting and completely going off topic (see above) then making a dick of myself. I'm completely aware of what I'm doing and that I should stop when I start, and then I keep going. I'm glad I'm not on drugs...

Then just random things I wish I could do:
Throw a football straight 90% of the time
Breakdance
Memorize everything important that I read. (A lot of the times I can sit there and read and not remember a single word I just read, mainly from distractions or my mind trailing off)
Destroy my naivety (It happens a lot, I trust people too much)
Have some awesome ability to read people's thoughts when they are flat out lying to me. Nothing gets under my skin better than someone who just flat out lies to me. I prefer to be told cold, hard facts about me than for someone to make up some crap just to be nice. I'm aware that I'm not perfect, so don't sugarcoat with me.

Eh, thats the normal response to snare playing. There's really no good way of convincing you that playing snare or quints is ridiculously hard either.(assuming the music has high standards along with the fact that most of the drum features in a show are insanely fast along with visuals) Which, the band I'm in has all that. So basically we're playing an instrument at much higher speeds along with visuals. Also, you can play different notes with a drum with hammering just in different sections of the drum and hand placement. So I strongly believe playing the snare is a lot harder than pretty much anything else in the band, IMO. I'm also not too shabby at it and mistakes are rarely noticed. I guarantee the crowd is always amazed by snare playing, and only amazed by colorguard if they stand on 20 ft tall poles and do 5 back flips coming off of. Which will never happen in the marching band I'm in considering if they jumped off the 20 ft tall pole (assuming they could get on top of it) they'd cause an earthquake hitting the ground.