Poll: What Do You Pride Yourself On?

[PureIrony]

I'm good at analytical thinking, I tend to have a pretty good sense of what is and isn't bullshit, and I'm a rather self-aware person.

...

That last part sounds like the punchline to a joke, doesn't it?

 

[Wolf-AUS]

I don't think I've got any incredible talents when compared to most people.

I would love to be able to shuffle well though, I've got a mate who I go out with all the time, we look like brothers and he pulls all the ladies :/ Only difference between us is, he can shuffle like a badass.

 

[manic_depressive13]

I feel no pride. Only shame.

 

[Wadders]

My appearance. I'm not the best looking guy around, but at least when I leave the house I'm always well dressed, clean, neat and tidy.

I pride myself upon my work as well. I've received consistently good grades in University so far on essays (exams, not so much) so I feel like i deserve to be proud of that.

I've been told I'm very loyal to my friends, to an almost stupid degree. Which is nice to know...

 

[Lord Beautiful]

I'm proud of my ridiculous loveliness.

 

[Heronblade]

Deductive reasoning. I have a tendency to notice patterns in the data presented, and leap to the logical conclusion far sooner than someone using normal reasoning methods. Its a talent that served me well in school, but I was always frustrated by my math teachers' insistence that I write out every step of the prescribed path that I skipped over. Calculus was particularly bad, I could often get the answer in about two minutes of thinking it over while writing down the occasional random note, and then have to spend another 15 minutes wasting a page or two of paper listing the steps.

 

[spartan231490]

I have the curse of being good at pretty much everything I do, but not really being exceptional or even very good at much. I'm pretty dang smart, but I'm not quite a true genius and the like. One of the specialties that i do excel at is mental math, and I've met some people who are better at it than me, but not many. I play tennis for fun, and no one can beat me consistently, I want to enter an amateur tournament and see how I do. That's it.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I tend to pride myself for my creative mind (I can come up with a lot of stuff) but again that is my opinion only.

 

[deserteagleeye]

I'm exceptionally well at every videogame genre, I'm always at the top of my SAT's, and I'm always the tallest and youngest of my class. Downside: I'm allergic to cats...and everyone I know has a cat....T_T

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I am exceptionally skilled at nothing.
I too wish I had skill with Fighting games.

 

[TriggerOnly]

I am only really good at 1 thing FPS.... you would not believe how useful it inst in real life.

 

[Count Igor]

Acting.
Hey, it's the one thing I feel comfortable saying I'm great at. Don't you judge me!

 

[Karlaxx]

Among my friends, I'm one of the biggest on strategy games, and while I can certainly be beaten, you could say that I've earned the right to be known as a force to be reckoned with.

 

[Joccaren]

I'm good at eating shitloads and requiring nothing more than a good night's sleep to remain as skinny as a beansprout (and that's why nickname is 'Fatso'! d'uh)

Seriously: I 'pride' myself at being reasonably good at a fair few things (organic chemistry, pure mathematics, classical/military history, the life and times of Publius Cornelius Scipio P f L n, entomology of Formicidae, writing & music). However, I wish I was better at computer engineering and coding, as well as twitch-based games.

Pretty much same here, I can not gain weight (Family says its genetic and when I reach arround 20 I'll start to).
I feel that I am average, but when I compare myself to my peers... I'm goddamn amazing. Things that I'm best at:
Physics
Chemistry
Building & Repairing Computers
Dodging things
Talking my way out of anything
Learning

Things I wish I was better at? Not sure. I'm pretty happy with who I am, I don't need any other advantages on my peers or I might become too arrogant...

 

[IndianaJonny]

Fencing ambidextrous, a clean shave and clean shoes. I take pride in them all.

 

[Ace of Spades]

I pride myself on being able to find humor in the mundane, which is why most of my photos on facebook are comics I made in Zero Punctuation animation style.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Pretty much same here, I can not gain weight (Family says its genetic and when I reach arround 20 I'll start to).

Heh, 24 and proud of my sub-30" waistline! Astronomical metabolism FTW!

 

[chowderface]

I'm pretty good at dealing with stress, normally when things get heavy I can Zen out, relax a bit, and deal with it. When I CAN'T...um, yeah, I don't like to think about that.

I'm also fairly good at animating. Gimme a pencil and some paper though. Maya can go eat a bag of dicks.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I'm not really good at anything. Pride is overrated, anyway.

It's a lot harder to have it wounded when you don't have any.

 

[Cheesus333]

I'm good at writing. I'm better at fan-fictions.

Every time I get a new review, it gives me a nice little boost. I won't pretend to be among the best professionals, or even among the best of those who just do it for a hobby, but in terms of amateur status I'm pretty damn good. Hopefully, I'll get even better and one day fulfil my dream of having a book published. But at the moment it's not talent that's the problem, it's patience. I find it really hard to sit down and write more than a couple of pages at a time, and I find it especially hard to write more than a few chapters of anything because I get bored of the plot. That seriously worries me.