Everybody sucks

Everybody sucks at something. What's the one skill that you wish you could have, but no matter how hard you try, you can't do it.

For me, it's arts & crafts. I would love to be able to paint and make stuff, but I lack the drive and determination (and talent) to do them. I find it's easier to just sit in front of my computer.

Tell me yours!

 

I wish I could draw. There's so many things that I imagine being able to draw, and when I go to put it on paper, it never works out quite right. I still try though !

 

I'm with you both, i love art and have always wished i could paint.

so a couple months ago i bought some acrylics and the whole set-up, then i realized i can't paint at all. so i picked up some colored pencils and started drawing everyday, not always something intricate or elaborate, but just putting some color on the page. every day i'm better than the day before...can't wait to see how it looks in a few more months.

i firmly believe we really can do just about anything if we really want it bad enough and are willing to put the time in, nobody is awesome their first time out

 

mmms...

 

^ mine's drawing too

And my sister claims singing, but I disagree :biggrin:

 

i wish i had more dance moves

 

haha, i did the same thing! I bought acrylics and everything to go along, and then realized that I suck. So I gave it to my mom, shes unreal at painting. I wish I could take after her !

 

i also say painting. I have a million visions in my head but actually translating that into art doesn't work out so well. I feel like because I can see them in my head so clearly it should come easy but it always turns out looking completely different than what i envisioned.

 

Social skills

 

i suck @ typing & spelling

 

I remember reading a quote that stuck with me, I think Terrence Mckenna said it (not sure) but he said "art is always an approximation of our reality." Then elaborating on that quote I guess john Lennon once said "If the music I heard in my head could be heard, I don't think anyone would listen to it."

I play guitar and i often find the same problem in translating the music in my head to the guitar. It often doesnt come out exactly how I plan it either and it can be frustrating. I think there is a select few who can translate music and art pretty much directly straight from what they hear/see in their head but I think for most of us even many of the greats its starting with a template and taking that somewhere. Then one of the difficult things in regards to music is that each musician in the band interpret the template differently. This is why there are demos for music and I imagine drafts for art.

 

I suck so much at growing mushrooms I've never even tried.

Will do cool drawings for mushrooms!

 

I agree with Meliai.
On a beautiful day or morning i will see something beautiful and be like if i could paint that or draw that and when i try it just doesn't come out right.
I try to be creative. And i would really like to be able to draw.

 

I've discovered as far as anything artistic goes, you really have to open yourself up to let that creative energy flow out of you. The only artistic pursuit that comes easy to me is writing, and when I write something that ends up being relatively good I'm usually surprised when I read over it because its like I went into a trance while writing and I'm never even sure where it came from after the fact. I've always been able to open myself up with writing with little to no effort.

I started writing songs not to long ago and none of them are technically good, but I do think I get across a little bit of passion in them, which is all I ever ask of a songwriter. I'm often surprised when those songs come out too, because when I'm writing them I'm not really thinking about it; they're just flowing out of some creative well.

I think with painting I get too caught up in the fact that I'm not technically good at painting, so then I start to doubt myself and I close off the place from where the creative energy flows, if that makes sense.

With anything, the only thing it takes to build technical skill is time and practice. I think opening up the creative side of yourself is the only way you can accurately translate what you see and feel inside of you, though. A painted tree is just a painted tree unless the artist infuses some kind of spirit and passion into it.

I'm not really sure what my original point was...I digress...

 

I suck at saying no

 

A lot of ppl here seem to regret not being able to express themselves artistically. I have always had an artistic streak - tho never really pursued developing it. Perhaps that is why I still enjoy drawing for my own recreation.


(Oh yeah, that guy Rob keeps stealing my stuff)

I guess what I really suck at is memorization.

Never could learn by rote. Got thru high school without knowing my multiplication tables (devised a system by which to count back or fwd from points that I knew such as 5X any number) So I was a mediocre student until Biology, where I learned the amoeba then built upon that. Cause and effect I understand. And, tho I sucked at arithmetic, I did better than most in Algebra because it was abstract (yes you can subtract 7 from 5 and get a neg 2).

You all know I can write, yet I could not memorize any parts of speech - just played it by ear. In fact that is my analogy; I am a musician that can't read music. Actually, I haven't even memorized the alphabet. When looking up something in alpha order, I have to say the letter near it and recite up to where it is.

I think it is just the way some of us are wired, not being able to memorize well - and I have gone thru high school and passed employment tests with good grades over the years, effectively compensating for the fact that I have can't remember shit. Oh, and these little calculators the size of a credit card proved that knowing multiplication tables is an archaic and unnecessary skill.

 

skating...I could never do it..this includes ice skates...roller skates...skateboards...even skis...

 

it's interesting how people can slip through the edu. system like that shale. i have had college classes with former high school classmates. i was surprised to find that they can't even read whent hey were asked to read a passage out loud in class. that's shameful.

back on subject,
it's funny that most people here want to be more artisticly talented. i've always been very good at art, just never pursued it like shale. i really want to be a fabulous dancer. like michael jackson, patrick swayze....

 

Ohhh memory is definitely the second talent I wish I had. Maybe I was wrong, and drawing is second actually =P

I play memory with my girlfriend sometimes to try to help mine :biggrin:

 

Wow, you have a lot of talents! And don't worry about the alphabet thing. I occasionally have the same problem.