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What is an uncanny skill or ability that a friend or person you know has ? (lemmy.world)

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[–] Fibby 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe 8 years ago I was paired with this really quiet dude for a group project. It was for statics engineering. We had to create a poster board with force diagrams on cars, bridges, buildings, etc. We needed to create a bunch of drawings and discussed how to create them. This dude just quietly said "I can use paint" and started clicking away.

He opens paint while no one is really paying attention to him. Within 2 minutes, the first drawing was done. We all were confused so we started to watch him work. He was flying through the whole project. He would copy sections, move them slightly over, draw a couple lines, and have immaculate 3D pictures. He single handedly created all our diagrams in 30 minutes. Our group of 5 got an A on the project.

To this day, I still use paint doing some of the tricks I learned watching him work.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Now I want to see the result of his work…

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I can tell you who is calling - seconds before it actually rings.

Edit: oh, and I can lure any cat into liking me. Without any treaties.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Teach us the cat thing please.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I‘d like to, but I fear there is little to teach.

I just go down in the best of the cat, wink to them a couple of times, talk calmly and let them come. But I am sure my two cats have scented me all over telling other cats I am already adopted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have a metal plate in your head or something? I don't get how that's possible

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not in my head but in my wrist. And believe me, I am confused as well how this is possible. But it works like 80% of the time, so far too often to be just a coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like a physicist should study and write a paper on you lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a couple of friends who are amazing teachers. One because she's very educated and experienced. One with a different education and experience, but she just has a natural ability to communicate effectively and engagingly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have graduate degrees in English and Education. 20+ years of teaching experience in the ESL classroom. The best teacher I ever met was a 20-something who had just graduated from college, never had a full-time job, no teaching experience or training of any kind. Observing him as his teacher-mentor at a language school in Japan, and subsequent feedback sessions, his approach and his insights easily surpassed other teachers in my experience. And the students unanimously loved him. He was just one of those people who had it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Friend's daughter just graduated and got her first job - elementary special ed. With tears in her eyes, she said, "I'm so excited to teach i could cry." I envy that passion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My best friend can play her collar bone like a xylophone

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My friend can breathe underwater for 10 minutes!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can do it for 45 minutes. Actually 1,5 hours if I use two scuba tanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My mom can blow smoke rings with her pussy.