Do you have pure talent at something that you don't practice?

[Thunderflash500]

I need to put time in to learn to programming, but visualizing the steps needed and breaking apart a program into steps is something I'm good at. One time when I explained a program I thought was fairly straight forward the other programmer looked at me and said"your brain works different than mine..."

I skipped the first semester of programming and the first assignment in the next level class called for writing psuedo code, I thought it was easy. I wrote it in 30 seconds. But half the class sat their looking at my pseudo code trying to understand it. It took me literately no thought. It's like speaking to me.

 

[EL CORINTHIAN]

Nothing truly useful but i can take some serious damage/conditions and be just fine, either that or i have epic pain management skills . I have fallen down countless times, there were times i should have practically died or at least broken a few bones but nothing (never broken a bone before). Been in multiple car accidents where everyone else was messed up but i was totally ok. You could throw me outside in the dead of winter with shorts and a t-shirt and i'll be fine. I can sleep on literally any surface you put me on including wood/concrete/ a bed of fucking nails and i'll sleep like the dead. In fact i can sleep like 2 hours and be totally fine to work the entire day after that and repeat the process a few more times.

But the moment i stub my toe..........that's when shit gets real

 

[genecop]

Intuitive...

 

[NHB7]

Drawing.

Haven't practiced in like twenty years but if you gave me a pencil and paper I could still draw a mean Goku.

Lol, when I was kid I loved drawing comic book characters. I got really great at drawing them in one pose. To this day I can draw a flawless Batman, Wolverine, and Spider-Man in one pose each. It comes in handy because I work with kids and Superheros are big again. But they all think I'm a great artist. They just don't know if they asked me to draw any other pose, it would be nearly back to stick figures.

 

[brownfeet]

You're kidding! You work at a nuclear reactor power plant!? So do I. You're the exact kind of imbecile I'm talking about!

Frank Grimes? thought you died man

 

[AgedFlatus]

Frank Grimes? thought you died man

It was fun while it lasted.

 

[Rav1nHunter]

I'm sitting here thinking is this dude Grimes then it hit me haha

 

[DataBreach]

I have a gift to interpret mysteries. I never cultured this gift I just have it. I interpreted many parts of the Holy Bible and also aspects of the computer and it's base systems application to mankind.

I have also correctly interpreted how our human bodies operate beyond the simplistic organs (heart and brain).

Although the gift was never cultured I have had to suffer horribly for 21 years. The gift is free but holding it is another matter.

Life in prison is free but yada, yada, yada. You get the point.

 

[fightingrabbit]

Big weiner. Bench press.

 

[Tuf_guy]

I was a really good wrestling coach. My talents were practically, and sometimes literally, wasted by head coaches with less than average understanding. They just happened to work for the school, or had time to do it full time (or some backdoor shit happened) - meanwhile I was busy with school. I studied a lot to be a great wrestler, but I started late, so while I had talent for wrestling, I didn't reach my potential (Cali is hard as fuck to excel). I basically had a bank of knowledge that led to me being able to coach others to be significantly more successful than I was.

Sometimes I'd think shit up and teach it based on instinct, and see that the kids from the top local schools were doing it. I was in a poor inner city school with poor turnout, and with poor head coaches in the way the program got increasingly worse the less I ran practice until the numbers shrunk.

I quit for grad school. No strong desire to go back because of work, but mainly because I don't want to dedicate my life to it anymore. It used to take over. Maybe I'm not as driven now, either. Also racked up injuries from inexperienced kids doing wild shit in practice.

 

[Tuf_guy]

I'm sitting here thinking is this dude Grimes then it hit me haha

 

[loyalyolayal]

Creating shitty threads & shitty posts comes natural.

 

[Fadetoblack918]

Not at all. Practiced guitar for 4 years and felt like I just wasn't getting better, or at least not improving at the speed that I felt most would after playing for that long. Kinda discouraging, but I have 2 kids now, so I have no time to practice anymore anyway.

I'd like to pick it up again one day when I have free time.

 

[Heikki Mustola]

I practice to win my competitions, but I am pretty damn good at losing. Hell, I might even say... That I am one of the best at losing. I just keep doing it.

Also sometimes I can make that 15 minute pizza in 13 minutes and its still tasty.

 

[Literally Bricked]

I can make minute rice in 58 seconds but I don't because I'm not poor as fuck.

 

[Steve-French]

I have similar talents. Dogs and cats that people warn me about, "oh he hates everybody", want nothing more than me to pet them and to sit on my lap. I still have that vocal talent. I always seem to know a person's mood too, no matter if they're trying to hide it or not. I pick up on things that a lot of other people don't seem to notice.

I'm wired the same way and I fucking hate it. It's called being an empath.

 

[scorpipede]

I'm wired the same way and I fucking hate it. It's called being an empath.

I would trade it or sell it for not much at all. It sucks wet shit.

 

[PGlew]

I've been told a few times I have fast reflexes which definitely helped in Rugby and catching falling beers...

 

[wlu.29]

i was like undefeated when it came to Dr. Mario

 

[MarcoW]

the more I practice something the worse I become at it.
Went jogging a couple months ago and accidentally won the Boston Marathon.
Now I can barely break 5km in 29 minutes.