Have you ever taught yourself anything

[Red Beard]

Lots of things.

Organ for instance. I was good enough that some faculty thought I was an organ major.

Once you understand how to learn, and importantly how YOU learn best, it's rather easy to teach yourself many things, especially with the wealth of resources we have nowadays.

We are Sherdoggers so we all have major organs. Talking bout our peckers.

 

[crabmeat]

Driving stick.

Same. The only assistance I had was my great-uncle Bjorn screaming at me in Norwegian, in a '79 Chevy C30.

I was 10 at the time, but needed to learn to tool around the farm. I guess that's why my father, who lived with Bjorn, never seemed to own a manual vehicle.

 

[Spounman]

Hello.
I’m watching tv show and girl in it taught herself to shoot a bow using a tree. I can’t think of anything I have taught myself, maybe Kaizo tricks but most of them someone told me how to do it so that doesn’t count , or I watched videos on how…
I thought I taught myself how to repair a chair but the chair broke again so I threw it out . Any skills you have taught yourself? Like fishing or something?

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Darts and Pool, at least I thought I taught myself pool until I started playing with actual good people who would show me how to shoot better.

Taught myself Excel too. I landed a Data Analyst job so out of boredom at work every day I got really good at Excel and learned how to automate a lot of what I was doing.

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

Same. The only assistance I had was my great-uncle Bjorn screaming at me in Norwegian, in a '79 Chevy C30.

I was 10 at the time, but needed to learn to tool around the farm. I guess that's why my father, who lived with Bjorn, never seemed to own a manual vehicle.

I’ve never driven a manual

 

[William Huggins]

I’ve never driven a manual

I've got some old washing machine manuals you can try.......

 

[Prologue]

Taught myself bagpipes to an extent. By which to say no formal training.

Big caveat that I've been around bagpipes my whole life as my Dad plays them, and play drums in the same band. I get a lot of guidance from bandmates, but for the most part just practicing the tunes, embelishments, etc. on a practice chanter before moving to a full set.

 

[Fishmonger]

i taught myself how to code



oh, and, how to log in to the forum via 2fa, but now, all that has changed...

 

[TheNinja]

Guitar
Driving motorcycle
Shooting guns
Teh Sex
Fixing everything

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Photography

 

[HeffDoesWant]

Data analysis and reporting systems.

While 100% true and done just because it interested me , I don't feel as nerdy as this would imply.

 

[HeffDoesWant]

Parenting.

Been winging that for almost 9 years now.

 

[Aurelian]

I played a lot of pool as a kid and got good enough I could run out 8 ball tables by the time I was about 8 years old. I could run out 9 ball tables by 12. I haven't picked up a pool cue in a decade and could still probably run some racks. Actually it was kind of a shitty skill, because none of my friends would ever play with me because they would lose every game.

I also taught myself poker through lots of playing over a couple years. I was almost at a pro level before I even started reading books and watching videos to get better.

 

[cooks1]

Pickling Vegetables. Took a while but I'm really fucking good at it now.

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

Guitar
Driving motorcycle
Shooting guns
Teh Sex
Fixing everything

Sex nice