What are you bloody brilliant at?

[JustASmidgen]

Inspired by another post about what people can’t do.. what CAN you do?

I can:
Whistle through my tongue when it’s rolled up
Play the piano and guitar by ear (not at same time)
Remember birthdays
Balance on one foot for a VERY long time without wobbling

All useful life skills, as you can imagine.

Buying craft supplies. Not so good at actually doing the crafts.

Some impressive skills mentioned here.

I did a fantastic job bringing up the DCs. ExDP did virtually nothing to help and in fact often hindered me. Despite that, we have 2 happy, successful and healthy young adults.

I make a great salad - very tasty and very healthy.

Our next door neighbour in the 80s was an immigration officer at Heathrow and he used to say he wasn't good at anything except for arresting people 🤣

Passing naso gastric tubes on children first time and unblocking IV lines.

I make really nice soup
Ds1 says I make really good leek and bacon risotto
I used to be really good at getting pregnant but I am too old now
I have endless patience, especially in hospital waiting rooms, but I fall to pieces in a medical emergency. Dh is the opposite way round. He is brilliant in a medical emergency but can't stand hospital waiting rooms.

I can name all the countries in the world and can point to almost all of them on a map (those pesky island countries in Oceania fox me a bit though)

Oh god APA referencing was the bane of my bloody life when I did my masters.

I am a lie detector in human form.

Oooh this is a great idea for a thread - just when I’m feeling really crappy as well!

I’m really, really good at spotting patterns in things - like give me data and I can analyse it accurately. This is not something I do for a living.

I’m great at auditing stuff - probably tied to the above! I will drill and drill til I can account for every penny.

I make really good roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, dumplings and cakes.

Finding the end of a roll of sellotape

Google searches (I used to be crap at this, these days I’m great at finding info and sifting through the crap)

Remembering dates

Keep large groups of young (primary age) children under control and focussed.
Hear a seatbelt opening on a coach regardless of where the opener is sitting (kids in one school I worked in called me the seatbelt dragon 😂).

Solve brick walls in other people's family tree research.

I can find a positive in pretty much any situation. Not always a good thing, but definitely a skill.

Planning long, multi-stop, often multi-country travel!

Also barre 😎

Same here! Also spelling and learning text by heart. I used to correct my teachers' spelling at primary school

I'm good at balancing on one leg too!

I'm good at delegating - I delegate so much of my tasks at work I have to find new ones to do. And then I delegate them.

I was always the peacemaker in friendship groups, good at calming people down.

I am very good at making people laugh. Not always intentionally.

I, somehow, seem to be good at getting random strangers to talk to me, even in Finland where people are well known for not wanting to make small talk with strangers, but they all seem to love talking with me, even though I give no encouragement.

I'm amazing at cooking eggs.

Any kind, however the person likes it, I make them perfectly every time.

Wish I was good at something useful though, unless people would go to an egg cafe 🤣

Overthinking
Catastophising

Shuffle a pack of cards like a casino pro.

I became a very good speller as a child because my dad is dyslexic and he was always asking the nearest person how to spell words when he needed to write his sermons. Got 100% in my spelling, punctuation, and grammar test in year 7 which I was very proud of. My grasp of grammar has definitely gone downhill since then though.

You should have sent it to me - I can hammer through a dissertation or thesis reference list in a couple of hours and have it perfect. Harvard too, although I have to think about it. Less keen on Vancouver and MLA, and I bloody hate OSCOLA!

Are you me?!😂

Pretty good at learning on my own: maths, science, crafts, cooking
Excellent with children of all ages, almost a child whisperer. Teens actually tell me their secrets.
Pretty good at conversation, terrible at small talk. People like inviting me to dinner parties. Strangers approach me for random help, eg I had a woman ask for help reading her divorce papers at a cafe.
My stuff never ever gets stolen or lost and if missing, gets returned. Two guys took my rucksack while engaging my BF and me in diversionary conversation in Seville. They came back 15 minutes later and returned my bag with shrugs and smiles. I have other stories that took place all over the world.
Excellent procrastinator. I work at my best under pressure. Pretty calm in an emergency.
I have a longer list of stuff I am rubbish at.

I can thread any needle on my first attempt every time but I can’t sew 🤣

I also make a banging Sunday dinner

I am very good at; helping people to rephrase difficult sentences so they sound better or more positive, telling people really awful news in a kind way so even when they don’t agree they understand why things are happening, I can tell if a child has autism by just walking past them (not sure if this is woo woo, instinct or professional knowledge) and can bake perfect cakes and tray bakes.

I am insanely jealous of some people on this thread especially the one who can untangle tangled things as even a small tangle gives me a rage and I cannot for the life of me untangle and makes me want to scream.

I am good at planning timings. So if you said to me you need to get up, get yourself and 2 kids ready to attend a wedding, call at a shopping centre to buy a gift, then go to collect 2 other people, get a quick lunch and arrive at the wedding 30 miles away at 2pm. I could plan this exactly to the minute and know what time everyone needed to get up or be picked up and my schedule would be spot on to the minute. Now I think about it this isn’t really something worth showing off about is it?

Ah! My twin 😀
I’m the family super-organiser. Personal best is organising and booking a relative’s wedding to the last detail in 4 days (they were living abroad and asked me to).

My superpower is listening to people chat away with vague thoughts and ideas and distil it all down so they say “that’s exactly what I want/meant”.

Like you, it comes so naturally to me I’m truly puzzled that not everyone’s brains work the same, but hey, I like being useful.

I also make the best bolognese in the world 😂

At work I was renowned for my skills in inserting arterial lines and breaking bad news.
I also make excellent roast potatoes and vegan pancakes and I'm very good at functioning on very little sleep. I've also never booked a bad holiday.

Same.

Walk me through a process once. Or a system. I'll crack using it very quickly, be able to do it faster than most and then know how to make it better after a few goes through.

I can see processes and the flaws in them and what needs to be fixed.

It's very useful for work (I've made it into a career these days) and very frustrating outside of work when you can see what's going wrong and can't change it 🤣