No political posturing.
Spatial problem solving.
Problem solving.
Processing written information.
Spatial awareness/reasoning. How far things are, where are we relative to this landmark, which direction are we headed, how to account for the moving shadows when choosing a place to settle down at the beach, and so on and so forth. It seems like people around me are utterly lost in space
Cold turkeying stuff. It’s not a superpower level but I can quit most stuff then and there without thinking about it again.
Same. It’s the only way to actually quit stuff for me. I’m all or nothing and don’t do moderation.
A lot of math things. It hasn’t been nearly as lucrative as people assume.
Executive function.
I don’t know but it seems like a lot of people around me are just in a haze. Probably some of it is ADHD.
a lot of people never develop it because they don’t have to. they survive by mooching off others their entire lives who do all the execution function for them. parents, friends, partners.
such people really struggle with being alone or independent.
Sounds like you know some borderline individuals
I can stop hiccups the moment I notice I have them, usually after the second hiccup. It started as a conscious effort to change the breathing rhythm through diaphragmatic breathing, now is almost like a reflex action.
My wife and I joke that we found my mundane superpower. When she gets hiccups, if I go embrace her, they stop almost immediately. Otherwise, they’ll persist for fifteen minutes.
whew, nice. I can’t do this. I can stop the sneezing reflex though
It’s pretty easy actually. When you want to get rid of the hiccups, make a conscious effort to have a hiccup, and then suddenly you can’t.
It’s why all those wives tale techniques work. Scaring people? Drinking water weird? Having your head upside down? It’s the part after that works, where after someone has you do their flavor of weird hiccup ritual, they then look at you all expectedly and wait for you to try and hiccup. Then suddenly you can’t. You’re trying, but now it’s a conscious effort, and it’s really hard to hiccup when you’re actually focusing on it.
Not judging other people. Partly, I’m just quite easy going, partly I’ve had enough personal history of making mistakes to understand that people often have others reasons for their actions. But mostly I just don’t see the point in wasting headspace caring about someone’s appearance, opinion or behaviour.
But I feel like I’m constantly hearing people bitching, moaning and picking at other people. There are situations where you need to take a decision about something (particularly if you’re in a position of responsibility or authority) but most of the time there seems very little point in being judgemental about someone.
I don’t believe in free will so I always think to myself that if I was in their shoes I’d be acting the same way. It doesn’t mean I have endless tolerance for bad behavior or that it doesn’t affect whether I want to be around said person or not but I don’t act as if they’re personally responsible for who they are or that they’re actively choosing to be that way.
Our brains start firing to take action before we are conscious of that action. We can see this on a scan.
Not a comfortable thought, but our brains are driving and only after taking action do they send an executive summary to the little homonculous behind our eyeballs and we say, “I did that!”
Actually getting annoyed by ads to the point I do what I can to block them. I work with IT and yet a good number of my coworkers don’t use any adblock at fucking all
I use them at home, at work its my employers time I am wasting.
Pretty sure there are more constructive things you could do with the time you’re wasting rather than watching ads. Hell, it doesn’t even need to be constructive, there are more entertaining things you could do.
basic life skills. cleaning, cooking, showing up on time, expressing myself, doing my job, etc.
i don’t know why so many people struggle with them. but there are a lot of very unhappy people who’d be a lot happier if they could do these things. they they choose not to do them, I will never understand.
I know so many people who can’t cook if their life depends on it, and it drives me crazy.
Not being on my phone at work.
I yelled at a coworker once for this. He was kind of a slacker, and known as such. One day I was to be teaching him my line (plastic extrusion and slitting). It was a tough product and the blade box was shit and wrapped. It’s a tense moment, we have to fix it quickly and do a restart, there is so much to do, and it’s a giant pain in the ass.
I go to grab a tool, and like, be on your phone when things are good, I don’t care, but it takes two to run this shit. I come back and he’s still just staring at his phone, Facebook of all places, instead of fucking helping clear the wrap and prep the line. I yelled at him to go sit down if he wants to be on his phone as now he’s in my way. I told him to get tf off my line if he wanted to play gossip on Facebook.
The only lady in my department, I don’t think anyone spoke to him like that before. He put his phone away the rest of the shift and I avoided working with him again. This dude worked there longer than I did, knew less than I did, and got paid more. Fuck outta here.
Manufacturing is an attractive environment for that type of person. The guys who skate by doing the absolute bare minimum and keep the job because finding new people is hard. They never excel, never rise above “machine operator 2” or whatever grade allows them to work the coil line with the least physical interaction possible. Every year or so they’ll be caught on their phone by the wrong person or at the wrong time and the company will issue it’s cell phone usage policy again, reminding everyone to keep the phones away until break time. And then for a few weeks bathroom stalls will be in short supply because 5 versions of that guy just can’t be bothered to actually do their job.
Then the crunch will come, overtime will be posted and that dipshit will volunteer every fucking weekend.
Yupppp
Using any sort of digital device. I’ve really never had a problem figuring out how they work and what needs to be done to fix them.
Getting up when the alarm rings
Not touching my savings
Paraller/reverse parking
Finding joy in mundane little thingsI’m a professional driver. Used to be a trucker, have spent a lifetime working shitty blue collar industrial jobs. I can back any trailer, with any vehicle, into any space. I’m a ninja on a forklift, a crane, a loadall, whatever. I’ve spent thousands of hours just parking stuff. I can’t parallel park. I mean I can, just not quickly, gracefully, or taking all the gods names in vain.
On Reddit (sorry) a million years ago, someone posted an image or maybe a gif that made it super clear for me and I’ve never had trouble with it since. It basically explained where in the process to turn your wheels. That said, I was an okay parallel parker already but my skills improved after I saw that gif. I’m not finding it on the web though otherwise I’d share it happily.
Strangely enough, I went to high school in a downtown area and often parked on the left side of a one-way street and therefore my parallel skills on the left are better than the right.
All that being said, I find trailer skills to be awe inspiring!
I remember that image/gif.
Line up back wheels with rear of the car you are packing behind.
Cut the wheel all the way to turn towards the curb and back up.
When 45° to the curb, turn the wheel the other way to go straight.
If necessary, straighten out as needed.
That gets like, 90% of whatcha need to do. Your individual car might change it a little based on turning radius, but it’s not that hard. A little practice and you’ll know where your rear curbside tire is and how long your hood is.
Plumbing. I’m not a plumber and I’m not particularly good at it, but it’s one of those things that most people won’t even consider looking at.
Also, 3D visualization. I had a carpenter do the gutters on my house and I explicitly told him that the reason I didn’t do them myself was that the eaves are slanted inwards so that the slope on the gutters would cause the gutters to go inwards when it goes downwards, and I was unsure what best practise was for that case, where to get the proper hangers for this or if we’d need to put a vertical board up first in order to make it work. He assured me that it’d be fine, having done many gutters before. When I got home, he had put ordinary hangers right on the slanted eaves, and the gutters were halfway under the roof at one end. He stood there scratching his head and tried to argue that the wall of the house was not straight, because he could simply not see any other reason for it to do that.
minor plumbing tasks sure, changing gaskets is pretty simple stuff though., but for major ones you need to know how to cut pipe, braze, or even weld. how many people do you know who have brazing equipment just lying around?
those aren’t really easy/everyday things.
Thankfully welding is a thing of the past. Plumbing in normal circumstances isn’t too hard if you have the tools. But if you fuck up and flood your home, good luck. I’ll never forget that video that is titled “the worst plumber ever” that shit gives me chills. Some guy tried to replace something in an apartment complex and didn’t turn of the main for reasons. I think it was because it was a small thing and turning off the main is a pain in the ass sometimes. Anyway, the residents were filming how he was under the sink flooding the whole place and whatever was underneath it. The sheer hoplessness of being there, knowing you fucked up and also realizing that there is pretty much nothing you can do is so real.
Tldr you do not want water damage in your home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP30okjpCko I found it. It’s also hot water, holy shit.
Writing with my left hand.
Designated Southpaw.
Explaining difficult technical concepts to laypeople. Just gotta find the correct analogy.
I am grateful and envious: I would love to have the same ability. Stuff is crystal clear in my mind, and I still hardly can transform it into something someone else can parse… analogies are great, but finding the correct one is often beyond me
I’m not a fan of analogies. They can be very condescending and convoluted and I find I dont learn much from them. I dont think there are any shortcuts to learning in that way really.
I find most the times the issue I have with someone teaching me something is that they are treating it as a one sided communication. If the person teaching won’t learn about the student, they end up assuming a lot of things and that is what breaks understanding.
Analogies are nice when the purpose isn’t to really learn but to socialize, though. Its more a way for people to acknowledge each other and show respect for the things we are interested in. Its a mutual thing in that way.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t know it well enough.
That’s one of my favorite sayings.
The problem is that people who are subject matter experts in a field tend to over estimate the amount of knowledge a layperson has about their field.
