Showing posts with label skills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skills. Show all posts

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Skillz

    Everyone has things they are good at and things they suck at.  Usually its a pretty random mix - but mine actually has a theme.  The theme is "Uselessness."  Basically, everything I am good at has no way of benefitting me in life.  If its impossible to make a living doing it, then I'll kick ass at it.  If you're competing against me in something where the skills required will never come in handy, ever, then you might as well forfeit now because you're going to lose. 
   Take, for example, Mini Golf.  I rarely play Mini Golf, but when I do play it I win.  By a lot.  Always.  If it were regular golf then yeah the chances of being good enough for the Pros are slim but at least its possible to play golf for a living. So how am I at regular golf?  Terrible.  Because being good at it can be beneficial. 
   I'm also really good at climbing, of which I believe (for adults definitely) I am in the top 1 or 2 percentile.  I can out-climb you in a climb-off any day.  I think its due to my body type (thin, long, unattractive.) But alas, we spend the vast majority of our waking hours on flat, even surfaces within close proximity of the ground.  So my monkey-like abilities are wasted.
   Oh I'm also really good at Archery, which I found out recently.  If I was living in 1500 BC I'd be thrilled.