What is the best skill you possess that makes you stand above the average person?
Asking intriguing questions that nobody thinks to ask.
eBay Product/Shopping verification.
It seems people get fakes and knockoffs all the time, but I haven’t.
All I do is look at the product pictures; if they’re stock, I’ll ignore, but if they aren’t, and they are a tech product, DVD, etc., I’ll cross-reference UPC/Barcode, SN, etc. with search engines.
Been using eBay since 2019.
Pole dancing! I’ve taught professionally for like 15 years.
Btw this instance is about to be exposed to amazing pole fitness content, prepare yourselves.
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Besides my professional skills, which are so boring they’re not worth mentioning, I’m good at snapping my fingers? I can do both hands really fast.
Also, standing on one leg, having internal monologues that can last for hours and other useless skills :)Kayaking, ive been doing it a year and a half and I’ve been on every white water course in the country
Fast driving - although I’ve never raced competitively I’ve done around 50 track days and I was normally one of the fastest on circuit wet and dry (whilst not having the fastest car).
Computer stuff - worked in IT my whole life although this one isn’t for fun.
Diagnosis, repair, and operation of CNC lasers, both flat plate cutting lasers and tube lasers.
…stand above the average person?
Kinda opposite of the prompt:
Scuba!
Lots of divers will tell you that buouancy control is difficult for most divers. Mine is absolutely good. I teach underwater photography and can hover within a fraction of an inch over a super silty bottom while swimming backwards and taking video without stirring up anything.
I have other instructors and professionals come to me for buoyancy training.
Isn’t that just controlling your breathing? Get your bcd to a neutral boyant point and then do the rest with your lungs.
At least, that’s what I do and I wasn’t aware this was something experienced divers had a lot of trouble with. I suppose I don’t ask people though.
Swimming backwards while filming with your hands is a neat trick though. I always reverse with my arms, so I’d be keen to see how you do that!
Lots of diver don’t know their buouancy sucks because they overweight themselves and stay neutral by having poor trim. They angle their feet downward and kick to stay neutral, which uses more air and causes them to silt out the dive site because they’re disturbing the water below and behind them, but never see it because they’re not facing that direction.
Most of my photography classes are actually teaching buouancy and advanced kicking because you really can’t do good macro shots from 8 feet away. You have to get to the subject of the shot, and have to be able to do it without stirring up the silt.
The frog kick, back kick, and helicopter turns are essential skills, but a lot of people have shitty or gimmicky fins, which makes it much harder. My thought on fins is that there’s 2 kinds - Jet Fins and Bad Fins. They were designed in the 60s and have never been matched.
Those big, heavy, stiff monsters are great, because you can do a reverse frog kick without them bending and pushing you forward while you’re getting them in position for the back kick.
Math (I’m a graduate student). And “exponentially more experienced than the average” means nothing as exponential is a progression, not a comparison between two values.
What this person is trying to say is they are exponentially better at being technically correct.
Exponentially the best kind of correct by an order of magnitude.
Your statement is cromulent.
Hey now you can’t determine orders of magnitude before you know the values
Exponentially correct is the worst kind of magnitude
My pet peeve with mathy stuff, “something is X times closer/smaller etc than something else”
If A is 1 away, saying B is ten times closer means what exactly? Is B 10 away? 9, 0.1?
I think what most examples are trying to say is that A is ten times the distance to B, but the way it is said if just annoying.“Ten times closer” is pretty unambiguously 0.1. What starts getting more confusing is “300% further” which is technically 4 but many understand as 3 (try replacing by 50%, 50% further is 1.5 not 0.5). Also “50% closer” being the same as twice closer while 50% further is only 1.5x further can get confusing too, and it gets even worse with “50% slower” - is speed now 1/1.5 (= it takes 50% more time) or 0.5/1 (= speed is reduced by 50%) ?
Most of the time it is pretty easy to know what the winter is trying to imply.
It gets really silly when using big numbers. e.g. a nanometre is 100,000 times smaller than a human hair.
serious questions then:
What’s a better mathy adjective to describe what OP meant by “exponential”?
A simple “a lot” would do fine. “Orders of magnitude” as someone else suggested would work too.
I’d go with “significantly”.
5sigma from the average person.
Orders of magnitude maybe?
This is one of my biggest pet peeves lol
Am not
Statistics.
That word does not mean what you think it means.
It doesn’t mean inferring something about a population from a sample?
The word in question is “exponentially”.
And in any case, no.
Pretty good generalist.
I feel similar. I’m good at my profession (very white collar) and have managed to start my own business based on a good reputation in the industry, solid outcomes etc. I’m pretty good with my hands and troubleshooting so I’m handy in a crisis, good at solving problems. I read a lot about lots of different things, I listen to a lot of different music so I’m a good person to have on your trivia team. I’ve kept pretty fit into my late 30s so I’m up for any exercise or going for long rambling adventures.
But am I great, beyond my peers at any one particular thing? God no. And it bothers me. I wish I was really, really, really good at any one thing to the point someone would call me an expert, but I’m just not. I don’t have the energy, interest or focus to dedicate to one thing, so I’m just ‘okay’ to ‘pretty good’ at a tonne of things, but not necessarily better than any one person in the room.
So good! I’m pretty much all of what you said, but without my own business.
Campin’
This is actually a useful skill if you like traveling. I live in a van and previously did a lot of motorcycle camping and backpacking. I can always find somewhere to sleep for the night wherever I am.
The best skill?
Im a good driver. Very good, in fact. Not at racing, i mean. But actually driving on public roads.being predictable, parking legally, following speed limits, using the turn signal before i actually turn, etc etc
It pains me to ride as a passenger now :(
Booooring! 🙃
But exciting is not the driving style I want from fellow drivers, so thank you .
Anything computer related
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