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3 things you suck at and 3 things you’re pretty god damn good at
Posted: 18 July 2012 11:06 AM   [ Ignore ]
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Suck:
Cooking
Maintenance and upkeep work around my house or otherwise
Small talk

Pretty god damn good at:
Running (mid and long distance)
Research
Verbally deescalating emotionally escalated children

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I’m 100% sure god doesn’t exist.

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Posted: 18 July 2012 11:13 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Suck:

1. yoga
2. water skiing
3. taking care of either real young babies or real old people


Good:

1. push-ups
2. answering medical/legal questions in a hospital setting on an emergency basis
3. being a granddad

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Posted: 18 July 2012 11:34 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Suck:

1. car engine maintenance
2. advanced math or physics
3. returning rentals on time


Good:

1. writing
2. people
3. innovation

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“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” - Dr. Seuss
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Posted: 18 July 2012 11:42 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Suck:

1) Home repair/maintenance
2) Discipline and steadyness in my personal life (my hobbies/interests outside of work)
3) Small talk, being a good/interesting conversation party in social situations/large gatherings.

Good:

1) Writing, when I put my mind to it (usually only when I have a deadline, unfortunately)
2) Being a good father/husband/friend to close friends
3) Grilling, which is a surpise because I’m otherwise a pretty average cook.

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Posted: 18 July 2012 11:43 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Suck:

1. Short, medium or long distance running
2. Cleaning dust from under the furniture; if you can’t see it, leave it be
3. Resisting new tech toys


Good:

1. Diagnosing people—not on PR
2. Applying behavior modification approaches
3. Writing

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About the only thing that one should take seriously on this forum is to enjoy interacting with others.  Educating them or being educated by them, may happen, but better for that goal to go to school. It is also useful to be able to laugh at oneself as readily as at others.

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Posted: 18 July 2012 12:38 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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Suck:
1. Running
2. Sleeping when anxious
3. Dealing with (not exacerbating) extended family drama (I come from a large Italian family)

Good:
1. Ball sports
2. Finance and accounting
3. Household organization.

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Posted: 18 July 2012 12:44 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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Good-

Backpacking long distances
Reading/spelling
Eating nutritious foods

suck-

everything else

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‘The supernatural hypothesis is simply untestable and leads nowhere’

Donald Prothero

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Posted: 18 July 2012 01:00 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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Suck at: paying attention while others are speaking, letting things go, and drawing.

Good at: getting things done, hand-and-eye coordination, and being the patriarch of my family.

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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by hearsay. Thomas Carlyle

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Posted: 18 July 2012 02:25 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]
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Suck:
1. Social chit chat
2. Organizing my life (fortunately I have a very efficient wife)
3. losing weight (that damn 10 lbs just doesn’t seem to go)
Good at:
1. Pattern recognition
2. Long, tedious calculations
3. Generating FUN ideas (but you might want to ask my wife about that, too)

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Posted: 18 July 2012 06:44 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]
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Suck:
Taking risks
Competitive sports
Computer maintenance


Good at:
Explaining math to elementary kids
Growing indoor plants
Writing

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Posted: 18 July 2012 10:25 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]
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Suck at-
Fire-Fighting
Bomb Disposal
Crab Fishing

Good at-
Caring
Listening
Balancing

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All right, no one is to stone ANYONE until I blow this whistle! Even… and let me make this absolutely clear… even if they do say “Jehovah”!

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Posted: 19 July 2012 07:22 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]
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Suck at:
- Empathy
- Getting work done around the house (big or small)
- Car maintenance

Good at:
- Outdoor pursuits (hiking, camping, fishing, survival). I fish in several bass tournaments a year and do well
- Water Polo (coach and captain of our local team), swimming, triathlon…3 different things but all aquatic related
- Leadership and project management (hope so, it’s my job)

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Posted: 19 July 2012 11:29 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]
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Pretty damn good at:

Trivial Pursuit
Memorization
That third thing

Suck at:

Mathematics
Thumb
Clitoris

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Posted: 20 July 2012 07:36 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]
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Suck at:

- color memory

- making appointments by telephone

- selling a car I no longer want or need

 

Pretty good at:

- minding my own business at every opportunity

- pretending to be able to think for myself

- ignoring the writing on the wall

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Posted: 25 July 2012 10:29 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 14 ]
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Suck at:
Following orders
Quitting Smoking
Spelling

Good at:
Pointing and clicking
Fixing computers
Helping others

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I started out with nothin’ and I still got most of it left.

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Posted: 25 July 2012 11:47 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 15 ]
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Suck at:
Math
Cooking
Planning ahead

Good at:
Swimming
Reading maps
Shooting my mouth off

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