September 29, 2023
(Just Some Of) Our Hidden Talents
A few days ago, I asked what things you could teach to a beginner.
As promised, here’s the (anonymized) list of hidden talents that y’all would feel comfortable teaching:
- 3-minute quick release of pain or any distress
- 30 simple structures you can practice to bring depth and fast authenticity to a relationship
- 5 elements theory & warm-up massage you can do in 3 minutes
- 5-step process to see your life through fresh eyes
- A reframing that turns any conflict, confusion, or chaos into the signal for the breakthrough that it is
- Agricultural stuff (Take care of vineyards, almond trees and cherry trees)
- Any level Mathematics (I just need to refresh)
- Audition for a local theater production
- Auto fleet management
- Back up a camper trailer
- Backpacks and all kinds of objects
- Baking
- Bank repo management
- Basic demolitions instruction (explosives)
- Basic firearms safety
- Be an efficient time-manager
- Beatbox
- Become a coach
- Bike
- Bike racing
- Boxing
- Breath control (for riflery)
- Breathing techniques
- Build a bed frame
- Build a fire
- Build a square-foot garden
- Build a treehouse
- Build a website
- Build business critical apps in python
- Build makeshift toys with wood (bows, arrows, slingshot and the like)
- Build the world that wants us to be healthy
- Buy a bike
- Carve pumpkins
- Catching a wave on a surfboard
- ChatGPT prompts
- Check and top up my own fluids in the car, wiper blades, change the tire (if still was strong enough)
- Checkers
- Chess
- Chess
- Chess
- Chop wood not loosing a limb
- Classical music
- Coach soccer (mostly any sport)
- Code
- Code a choose-your-own-adventure
- Coding (C/C++/HTML)
- Cook
- Cook (the arguably perfect) Spanish omelet
- Cook a curry
- Cook a delicious, healthy meal
- Cook great meals when camping: open fire and Dutch oven
- Cook healthy from-scratch meals every single day (with zero wasted food)
- Cook perfect boiled or hardboiled eggs
- Cook perfect scrambled eggs
- Cooking
- Cooking
- Cooking
- Cooking
- Create a flattering portrait
- Create a private ritual to create personal transformation (without resorting to “woo”)
- Create a strong, focused, authentic sense of “we” in any group that desires it
- Create manuals, protocols, and procedures
- Creating social media strategies
- Creative writing
- Cut your own hair
- Dance (Shuffle)
- Defuse an angry customer complaint
- Designing handbags
- Diamond painting
- Do some musical theater
- Do tricks w/ cards
- Do well in an interview
- Draw/paint
- Drive
- Drive a 4x4 in sand dunes
- Drive a car
- Drive a car
- Drive a stick-shift
- Drive and operate tractors and machinery
- Drive stick
- Dutch
- Edit video using Camtasia
- Edit video using DaVinci Resolve
- Effectively google for things
- Electrical installation (power outlet etc)
- Encouraging people
- Essential phrases in Mandarin for visitors keen to strike up laughter & fun
- Fill in a magic square
- Film and edit movies
- Find your own home organizing style and implement strategies that will keep your home organized for good
- Fire a pistol with reasonable accuracy
- Fix a tire puncture
- Fix most vacuums
- French, Dutch, English
- Gaming
- Get ready for hiking
- Get smart fast on a subject you know nothing about
- Get started in Japanese and Spanish (enough to get into trouble; not enough to get out of it!)
- Get started on BlueSky
- Get started on Mastodon
- Get started on Twitter/X
- Get started with Astronomy
- Give a good presentation to an audience
- Greek
- Handle and store a gun safely
- Handling a cranky toddler
- Have fun in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: get started, and keep going
- High school XC coaching
- Home automation
- Homeschool your kids in Texas, from kindergarten to college acceptance
- How soul and spirit are different, and your life can become rich by noticing the presence of each
- How to choose
- Ice skate
- Improve your communication (with friends, husband, wife, co-worker)
- Incorporate a business
- Inquire ChatGPT (Bard and the rest)
- Install cabinets
- Installing specialty acoustics
- Integral transformative practice, infinitely adjustable as you learn things about yourself
- Inventory control, expediting
- Invite meaningful dialogue into any relationship and open the door to a generative process
- Juggle
- Kayak
- Knit, crochet, embroidery, macrame
- Land navigation
- Latin
- Launch a podcast
- Lawn care
- Lay carpet
- Lay radiant floor tubing
- Learn to learn by yourself
- Learning a new skill
- Live production setups
- Live without resistance
- Lose fat and gain muscle
- Make a mini zine
- Make a proper fist (according to Isshin-Ryu karate)
- Make better coffee
- Make decisions
- Make espresso
- Make homemade pasta
- Make homemade pizza dough
- Make homemade yogurt
- Make house music
- Make hummus
- Make sourdough bread
- Making a blanket using a loom
- Making ravioli
- Manage your own time
- Managing a class
- Master a few good magic tricks
- Maths
- Mend a “traditional” roof
- Mend socks and sew buttons
- Mixing a martini at 100 miles an hour
- Mooring a boat
- Music recording
- Neapolitan style pizza making
- Negotiation
- Nutrition
- Operate a fire engine
- Pass a ball in soccer
- Pattern languages
- Perform basic military first aid
- Perform your own consumer-level car maintenance (oil changes and other stuff most people don’t do anymore)
- Photography
- Piano
- Pilot a DJI drone
- Plant a garden
- Play a funky bassline ;)
- Play all the open chords on a guitar
- Play backgammon and euchre
- Play basketball
- Play campfire-level acoustic guitar
- Play cards
- Play chess
- Play chess
- Play chords by ear on a piano
- Play computer games (counter-strike 😅😅 was a professional gamer once)
- Play Go
- Play golf
- Play MANY different board games and card games
- Play netball
- Play the cello
- Play the drums
- Play the piano
- Playing chess
- Poker
- Pour a concrete sidewalk or countertop
- Practices that make the following 5 phrases true in your life: the past is approved. The future is open. All is possible. All is good. You are accepted
- Print design, setup for print/separations/prepress prep
- Professional graphic design
- Proper rowing form
- Properly catalog and evaluate your art collection
- Publish a YouTube video
- Put out a fire
- Recaulk a bathtub surround
- Repaint your car with spray cans
- Replace a door or window
- Replace a toilet (yes, I could)
- Replace household plumbing fixtures (toilet, sink)
- Replant your entire lawn
- Ride a bike
- Ride a bike
- Ride a unicycle
- Rock painting
- Rowing
- Run a decent game of D&D
- Sailing
- Sailing
- Saltwater aquariums
- Schedule recurring Facebook posts
- See the Northern Lights (in the Midwest)
- Select a college or university for your child
- Self-love
- Set up a basic home chemistry lab
- Set up email campaigns on MailChimp and familiar with CAN-SPAM regulations
- Set up their Google Business Profile for optimized local search
- Sew
- Shoot a ball in soccer
- Sketch cars and other vehicles
- Snow skiing
- Snowboard
- Snowboard
- Snowboard
- Solder a wire
- Some French
- Speak basic French
- Speak basic Japanese
- Start a blog
- Start a blog
- Start a business
- Start a business in France
- Start a campfire
- Start a fire
- Start a newsletter
- Start a Newsletter
- Start a podcast
- Start an LLC
- Start raising backyard chickens
- Strategize
- Survive a police encounter without incriminating yourself or escalating to violence
- Swimming
- Take care of a child
- Tantra
- Think laterally
- Think two steps ahead
- Think w/models
- Tie a half hitch
- Tie a taut-line hitch
- Tie your shoes
- Too much gardening knowledge for a condo dweller
- Trap a ball in soccer
- Turn a live chicken into dinner
- Upgrade m.2 storage in a new PC
- Upgrade RAM in a new PC
- Use a fountain pen
- Use a recording studio
- Use ChatGPT effectively
- Use Obsidian
- Vector graphics drawing – a skill from early print days for flexo label printing
- Watercolour painting
- Waterskiing
- Web design and hosting (majority of the current gig)
- What to say to a recently bereaved person
- Windsurfing
- Wire a house (but get somebody else to wire the panel, please)
- Wireframe a landing page
- Woodworking
- Write a daily email
- Write a personal-feeling email that encourages action
- Write a story
- Write copy
- Write katakana and hiragana
- Write poetry
- Yoga
- Youth/Adult Beginner Hockey Player
- Zero a rifle (iron sights)
Wow!!! What a list!
Several things stood out to me, but the two biggest ones were:
- Just one yoga? Really?! 😜
- Lots of build, cook, create, make, play, start, and write 💪
What was your favorite?
Yours,
—J