#72

Don’t you think you’re good at writing and playing music? Singing? Drawing caricatures? Or do you just do those things anyway thinking you’re shite at it all, and that everybody must be lying to you when they say how much they love your work? Because if so, I just can’t get my head around that. You must know you’re good at some (a lot of) stuff.

#73

I think I’m probably good enough to be average at those things sure! Put the time in and you will be competent at most things really, easy to see people as gifted or the reverse as useless if you don’t think about the time they have or haven’t put into whatever their hobby or career is

#74

Considering my job, I’m really bad. It’s only in the last decade or so I’ve gotten so bad. I struggle to think of words, and I often just say things that aren’t even words at all and get really stressed about it. Like a stutter, I suppose but with nonsense words. I’m not too bad on tours but talking can be tough at times (depending on who it is I’m talking to actually)

Also I cry when I talk about myself, even if it’s just talking about what I did at the weekend. I should probably go to see someone about it but instead I’ve just become a near recluse, lol.

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#75

:smiley: any examples?

:frowning: we love you scout!

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#76

In writing, professionally, very (had lots of plain English training) but verbally rubbish. I speak too fast, and I speak too much.

#77

I don’t word so good

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#78

I don’t good so word

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#79
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#80

Always get accused of “flowery language” in work too, what the fuck even is that, sorry for trying to inject any colour whatsoever into our miserable lives.

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#81

More articulate out loud than on paper. I’m a rubbish writer.

#82

I think you have a very skewed perception of what average is - the talent you have for music puts you in at least the top 10%, and that is being deliberately conservative. The average person has little to no musical ability, or maybe can strum the chords to wonderwall.

#83

I don’t think that’s true at all, maybe some people have no rhythm at all but a lot of kids can clap in time and that’s all the talent you need to learn an instrument

#84

Communication skills are pretty central to what I do, and have always been fairly eloquent. Fortunately. It’s good cover for not being as good as you want to be a lot other stuff sometimes.

#85

Don’t most people sort of adjust their language and personality depending on who they are around? Like you don’t want to make people feel awkward by being too flowery or by being too pure and never swearing? I like to swear around people who swear to put them at ease, just say fuckin’ every other word

#86

You devalue the countless hours you have spent actually doing that. Everyone could learn to do a lot of things, but actually getting good (and you are very very good) takes dedication. You earn it. That doesn’t make you average - if we just compare people on what they might be able to do if only they tried, then we have no yardstick to measure anything in life.

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#87

Even if you’re right on that front (and I’m not convinced) there’s a different between being competent at something and being able to use the skills that you’ve learnt creatively as well though - few people can do much more than play primary school level recorder and fewer of those that do progress beyond that ever channel their creative muscles into composition.

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#88

I am quite good at the board game articulate despite not being that articulate

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#89

This is what I was going to say.

#90

alright, alanis morrissette

#91

Used to dumb down my vocab when I worked in a shop but misjudged using the word ‘acronym’ and one of my colleagues flipped out at me a bit :upside_down_face:

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