Poll: Do you feel Untalented?

[Outright Villainy]

I wish I could play an instrument. but im 6'3 and I have huge feet and hands. I hands are too big to play a guitar efficiently, cant dance and people dont trust me with equipment thats expensive. my untalentness/self esteem problem is so low I dont even want to get into a car to learn to drive because I feel like its too much to handle and ill kill someone. ugh.

Try bass. Having large hands is actually a significant advantage in bass, with your right hand you can skip strings quicker, and you can do longer stretches with your left.
I'm 6'3" too you know, it's not all doom and gloom![footnote]Except for my taste in music, Ba-Dum-tish [/footnote]

 

[Enemy Of The State]

I'm... okay at guitar I guess? My soloing ability is pretty much non-existent, but I'm a decent rhythm player.

This, I guess.

Also I've been told I'm good at writing, especially fiction.

 

[Biosophilogical]

I'm good at academic stuff. Does that count? I'm flexible for someone who doesn't exercise (I can't do the splits but if you annoy me I can kick you in the face without trouble). Umm ... what else ... I can think abstractly and weirdly, which results in me trying odd stategies a lot of the time (most fail, but there are a few winners).

As far as musical talent goes, I cannot sing, and I'll probably learn an instrument, a language and a form of etiher dance or self-defence once I leave high-school.

 

[Mr Pantomime]

yeah, but im getting better. im learing to play the piano, learn japanese, sew and cook. Its all about effort really.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

The way I like to type on my keyboard and give off objectional comments makes me feel good about myself.

Calumon: I can fly... that's kinda special.

Being incorrigibly twee and nauseatingly adorable can hardly be called a 'talent'. But then again it must be, how else can one explain how well you mask that blackened heart that beats within?

I have a talent actually, not a big one: I am very good at making pillows out of small, cuddly rodents of inexplicable origin.

I wasn't talking about Calumon. Calumon is kinda just... there. I mean if I can argue with someone in a way that I can consider to be a good argument, or even just post my view in a way that could e considered intelligent. I have written stories for my class, articles and lots of recognition for me having an imagination. Calumon isn't really a part of that. He's just cute.

Calumon: Jack's kind of nice, and I don't think his heart is like that...

 

[Undeadpope]

I am unreasonibly confident in myself.
For no reason I beilive I can do anything(within reason) but it works really well.
I can out run people who excerise daily,tospite doing around 1 hours of a excerise a week just because I demand that I best everyone in everything.
The one thing this doesn't work on is being funny,I suck at that outside of my own uniqe humour,which often leaves me laughing to myself and leaving people around me very confused.

As for "talent" I would say confidence and so that acts kind of like a "luck" stats it raises critical hit chance it helps with just about everything.

Edit: I voted that I feel talented,because thats obviously part of the confidence thing.

 

[Extraintrovert]

Firstly, no matter what your situation, or your thoughts, or even your clothes collection, no-one is ever alone. Ever. There are almost seven billion people on this planet and we are identical in more ways than we are comfortable to admit, so the probability that anyone is ever the only one is insignificant.

Secondly, I have no idea how to answer this question. Whenever someone gives me a compliment I immediatelly assume they're lying so I don't rely on outside opinion, however I never think that I do anything well at all, which objectively isn't true, so I can't rely on personal opinion either. Coupled with how I haven't exactly tried anything to see if I possess any talent in the first place, and I don't have access to a lot of information on the issue.

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[Timotei]

I don't feel untalented, In fact I feel very talented. However I just feel like the talents i do have are being wasted due to a lack of use.

 

[sumanoskae]

No. I can fight pretty well, and I'm an all but undefeated swordsman among my friends. I've also heard good things about my writing, and I have a lot of ideas when it comes to both games and writing

 

[Verlander]

I have a weird attitude towards talent, in that I don't think it exists. Many people have claimed I am a talented artist, and I have sold work before. It's not a talent though, I just enjoyed drawing so much that I became good. Similar with sports, it's more about passion and commitment. Maybe I'm just weird and cynical, but I think that physical differences can only make a small difference. Probably wrong though

 

[ultimateownage]

I feel untalented, but that's just my self loathing and lack of self esteem speaking. If I ignore all that, I would say I'm fairly talented at Science, Maths and computing.

 

[GothmogII]

The way I like to type on my keyboard and give off objectional comments makes me feel good about myself.

Calumon: I can fly... that's kinda special.

Being incorrigibly twee and nauseatingly adorable can hardly be called a 'talent'. But then again it must be, how else can one explain how well you mask that blackened heart that beats within?

I have a talent actually, not a big one: I am very good at making pillows out of small, cuddly rodents of inexplicable origin.

I wasn't talking about Calumon. Calumon is kinda just... there. I mean if I can argue with someone in a way that I can consider to be a good argument, or even just post my view in a way that could e considered intelligent. I have written stories for my class, articles and lots of recognition for me having an imagination. Calumon isn't really a part of that. He's just cute.

Calumon: Jack's kind of nice, and I don't think his heart is like that...

And neither was I talking about Jack, I like Jack for all those reasons.

Tis the demon beast what has the heart of pure pitch!! Stare overlong into it's eyes is to bring madness willing upon oneself.



Lest this get far too off-topic with careless demon anguish:

I'm rather mediocre in most respects. Average grades, average ambitions, average looks. At the moment, being an unemployed designer, I find it very difficult to get work outside commissions, as it's office work I'm aiming for, unfortunately, I get the distinct impression that these companies want me to lie straight to their faces. It's not that I can't do the work, but rather, that I can't prostitu...err, 'sell' myself, as the second coming of Jesus Graphic Designer!

I'm just starting out of course, so it's obviously something I need to get over. But I'm beginning to become a mite depressed getting passed over for someone with a 'winning smile and firm handshake', rather than based on the merits of my work. This ends with my thinking that, I really must be so untalented if they're willing to say my work is good just to spare my feelings, only to phone later and say, sorry, you're not what we're looking for.

There's always a better person I know, it's just...depressing.

 

[Snowpact]

I used to, and still do, quite frankly, but everyone around me keeps telling me that I'm a bucket overflowing with talent. Pretty much, yeah. It amazes me from time to time that they are remotely right. And that makes my day

 

[drdamo]

Start with exploring your senses.
Make photos of what you like to see, write down your thoughts, help people in need, try to paint or draw something, build/create/sculpt something from raw materials and don't question your level of professionalism while doing so, simply let it flow.
Write stories, write poetry, write criticism, write songs, photograph people, buildings, insects, specific colour combinations, capture a feeling and so on.
Make something from clay, take a knife and work on some wood, the possibilities are endless!
Take a free music program and compose some tunes, especially if you can't play an instrument, you know what you'd want to hear so let a computer assist you in that.
If you don't start somewhere, you'll never find out what you're good at.

 

[T3hMonk3y]

I wish I could play an instrument. but im 6'3 and I have huge feet and hands. I hands are too big to play a guitar efficiently, cant dance and people dont trust me with equipment thats expensive. my untalentness/self esteem problem is so low I dont even want to get into a car to learn to drive because I feel like its too much to handle and ill kill someone. ugh.

I know a guy 6ft 5" and he has the biggest hands i have ever seen like seriously im 6ft0" and his hands make mines look like a childs and he plays guitar bloody damn well, proabably the best person in town that i've seen

TLR you cant have too big hands for guitar, make just make some chords a tad tricky but not impossible

 

[El Poncho]

Yeah I feel that way, I really need to start trying out more stuff.

I am never really good at something I am usually just OK at it.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Sure, I'm not exactly a pro at most of the stuff I do, but hey, I learn pretty fast, so it's not like I can never be one