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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 51 points 6 days ago

Spreadsheets:

[-] FourThirteen@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago
[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I really wish I'd spent a day learning regex 2 decades ago or so.

End up finding more complicated ways around everything because I never learned it properly.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 25 points 6 days ago

I have an extremely high tolerance to mundane, repetitive tasks because of my vivid imagination. I can just keep doing the same mindless bullshit all day while I'm somewhere else in my head.

[-] stelelor@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

If I pay attention to a written piece of information (name, phone number, address, short instructions, that kind of stuff) I will remember it for months and years. Comes in handy when working with complex policies and legislation!

This is balanced by the fact that I have trouble retaining auditory information. If you tell me your name, I've forgotten it before you've even finished talking. (But if I catch it on your badge out of the corner of my eye, I'll remember it for years.) The only exception are dog names - those I have no trouble remembering.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I know how to enunciate, speak with a voice supported by my diaphragm, and increase the intensity of my speaking voice without actually yelling. It's incredibly useful. Virtually no one ever misunderstands me on the phone. I can have a conversation in a loud crowded place. I'm actually fairly conflict-averse, but when I need to "switch on," I can usually short-circuit people's inclination to argue by using a more focused voice.

Everyone should take a decent Acting 101 class where they teach you these skills.

[-] rammer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

increase the intensity of my speaking voice without actually yelling

People will still consider it yelling even when you're not actually doing it.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I just imagine if everyone was able to do this 😅

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago

Ability to calm down and read instructions or manuals. I don’t understand people’s insistence on figuring EVERYTHING out.

Don’t get me wrong I love solving problems, but sometimes the solution to the problem is just finding the answer- literally right there. RTFM.

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

When I was a kid I did gymnastics, and skateboarded/rollerbladed. This combination of activities meant I was falling on my ass all the god damn time.

It also means that I am so accustomed to falling, that even as I age, those instincts survive, and in turn, help me survive. When I fall, I tuck, I roll, I break my fall with any number of instinctual responses. This has lead to me surviving some scary falls I've taken whilst home alone (off a ladder, in the shower, fainting once when I got up from a long squat), and I think will help me survive more in my elder years.

[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 days ago

Same here. It took me a while to realize not everyone rode bike or skated then ate shit as kids so now they eat shit.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

That's great now, also have you considered working to improve your balance so you stop falling doing normal everyday tasks?

You might be so accustomed to falling your entire life, maybe it hasn't occurred to you that falling off ladders and falling in the shower and getting dizzy from squatting to the point you fall over when you get up, those are not normal or healthy events. Quite the opposite of normal & healthy.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 days ago

Good at google. Which should be easy for everyone to learn, but a lot of people don't.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I am good at that too, and think it may come from being able to understand some computer syntax. It's being able to form natural language queries. Asking things in a way a machine can understand.

[-] WoolyNelson@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

Poker face.

No matter what I am thinking internally, it does not show externally. Essential skill for customer service.

[-] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 days ago

I do not have a good poker face, I think more customers need to get laughed at.

It would be good for some of them.

[-] WoolyNelson@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Oh, some of them need laughed or yelled at, for certain.

I, however, need continued employment.

[-] Corno@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

I've been told I'm very good at reading people.

[-] That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days ago

A strong sense of spatial awareness, accurately eyeballing measurements, and reverse engineering things in my head without physically taking them apart.

It comes in really handy as a welder, machinist, and a 3D print hobbyist.

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago
[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

I wouldn't call it a skill but I'm really mechanically decent (3D puzzles and Rube Goldberg aptitude, that kind of thing), and my visual memory is really good, so I have the uncanny ability to tear apart household appliances, do something else for hours or days, then return and slap it all back together about as quickly with no leftover mystery screws. I just look at the shit all strewn about, and can somehow recall the very last thing I was holding and work backwords

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[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

My moderate skill at hacky sack has surely prevented many things that I've dropped from becoming damaged.

[-] MrShankles@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I can carry 3 full pint glasses in one hand and 2 in the other. If they're empty, I can carry 4 in one hand and 3 in the other. It comes in handy more than I would expect

[-] fart_pickle@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I can cook and I'm good at it, I know how to grow veggies, I know how to fix things, both mechanical and electrical/electronical. But the best skill I have is that I know how to spend time when wifi/power is down.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Neat handed, so good at caulking and cake decorating. Not afraid to figure things out or make mistakes that helps with a lot of stuff and is less helpful with some other stuff.

[-] waz@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

I've got a weird version of "net lazy"motivation. Anything I can do now to make a future task easier, I am strongly motivated to do. Anything that would be easier if I wait for [blank] I will ignore until the ideal moment that would make it the easiest.

It oftentimes leads to peculiar optimizations, but it has worked surprisingly well for me so far.

This is exactly what spurs me to wash my dishes right after using them. It's much less stressful to clean a single plate & fork now, than to return to a sink full of dirty dishes later. I'd rather just get it over with while it's still easy to do.

[-] waz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Yep, exactly this. Wash the plates and silverware now before stuff gets dried on there... Except that casserole dish with the crispy baked on border of crust. That is soaking for a couple hours to save me a little effort. I'll was every dish but two just because it'll be easier later.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

I have long legs and a long torso. It makes holding snacks out of the reach of my partner way easier.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

ability to troubleshoot logically. if something isn't working, I have a knack of figuring out why, but maybe have to lookup how to fix it.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Remarkably limber & agile & can contort myself into small tight tricky spaces, and balance on unstable surfaces, and climb anything.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

What kind of everyday tasks does that help with?

[-] Volkditty@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

I have a certain "go with the flow"-ness that helps me glide through.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago

I can read, and also write. If needed, I will also speak.

[-] FUsername@feddit.org 6 points 5 days ago

I regularly catch stuff that accidentally drops nearby me with my hands or I manganese to soften the hit in the ground by changing it's trajectory with my feet.

That comes in handy as i am clumsy as hell.

[-] skoell13@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago

Until it's an iron pan..

I once hurt myself bc i tried to catch two bowls falling of the shelf. In the end I had a blue toe and a nasty wound on my wrist.

[-] FUsername@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

I forgot to mention I do not catch everything, preferably I avoid catching knives. And iron pans. Hammers also not. For some reason, my brain did a pretty solid job not to catch such items.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

manganese, sodium, chloride, magnesium, potassium

[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I can walk and use me hands for stuff. Pretty ~useful~

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Knowing four fluent languages and four that I'm not fluent in.

[-] Lennnny@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Multitasking really simple tasks. I can do three errands around the house at the same time, and I'm really good at bartending multiple drinks simultaneously. I love cooking because I'm really efficient and time multiple dishes perfectly.

[-] Bilbo_Haggins@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Kind of like the other poster, I can figure out how most simple mechanical things work by looking at them and can usually cobble together a solution to mechanical problems out of random stuff from the hardware store. I'm also really good at fixing simple mechanical and electrical things like bicycles, flashlights, hair dryers, fans, office chairs, etc. I'm also quite handy with a sewing machine and can fix most clothes.

More complicated things like appliances, software, etc I can't do as quickly or easily but I'm still pretty good at hacking together solutions with the help of YouTube and online forums.

Has probably saved me thousands of dollars over my lifetime in keeping things running and not having to buy replacements, but also I lose a lot of time and space to all my "I can fix this" projects.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

This is a boring ass answer but probably literary analysis

[-] geography082@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

Read people behavior , consecuence of many years of therapy and being HSP.

Being able to remember dates and times of events and recall them without having to check a calendar

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