That would be me. Loved computer programming since teenage and has been part of my life. Setup my own first company around it at 21 and been doing great since then living in multiple countries and flying around world.

Being not in one place for a while is a bit of my problem when it comes to courting girls. These days overcoming my inferiority complex slowly and surely.

Last October, I was able to strikeout Japan from my wish list.

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Does anybody then want to take at stab at how this thread topic relates with PU?

. . .And by the way, what's wrong with taking a little compliment from a cute chick? It's OK . .

Oh and Chief, your question reminds me of a good friend of the family who asked me a similar question about his guitar skills and future plans. There's really no way to answer the question because everything is relative . . . so, I suggested he take a summer program at Berkley to see what 'relative' exactly meant.

He came back after the first day in shock, dragging his jaw from the floor.

If your up with the big boys and know your good then its a great inner game confidence booster for you and helps with having strong frame when approaching new women, yes?

i can lie without being caught out

The quote is saying, if the only thing you have read is "bounce" and a handful of other materials, it'd be best to hold your horses before making any grand statements about psychology.

Skills are learnt, but our capacity for them and our ability to learn them are both things which are highly influenced by our genetic in-heritance.

We can influence these things, how much though is up for debate.

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If psych is where you want to go, and it's where your passion lies, then read read read. Look at how people in debates and scienitifc articules articulate their points. Learn how to interpret evidence objectively and how to make indutions and you'll do well!

Good luck.

eating pussy. made a girl cry once. then she had her friend let me eat her out also. it was crazy. I am also decent at bass guitar.

Texas Hold'em
Guitar (not creative though, I am now figuring Glasgow Kiss by John Petrucci out, fucking hard)
Volleyball (5 years back I was in U18 league)
+ one extra: I am Master Overhauler (don't know if it's right word in English). Except of the electricity I make wonders.

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Im good at being good at everything with practice, but never exceptional, just call me jack.

My opinion is lots of people are and have the capacity to be good at something but the term is relative, good to one person is exceptional to another, let your peers judge your ability, not your friends and family.

Think of it these terms - every parent says:

'little timmy is so bright for his age'

Apparently all children genius's are according to whoever breed them and birthed them, which begs the question were are all those retards of the population? So when a doting parent says that, take a good, long, hard, appraising look at the kid as if your were a child molester seeing it wandering around a park by itself - chances are he or she is a actually a donut, who will end up on something like americas dumbiest criminals... its all relative.

@chief, why you wearing sunglasses inside like that? please dont tell me you do that when shagging too? lol!

As to the music, your good enough to use that as a red button weapon to get fanny from girls I bet, as to being good enough to do the whole thing seriously..MY opinion is currently I dont think so sorry matey! Keep trying though, if you do put more heart into your performances!

I am good at
fishing
any rts, turn based, fps.
beer pong-am known for my skills
other than that mainly solving problems and creating its a real gift
also an undergrad in psych

@ footie: you may believe what you think but this is truly wrong. You are young and should be taught correctly, throw that book away.
practice and skill are correlational but not absolutes. whether it is physical or mental.
for physical we have the olympics the supposed pinnacle
to say anyone at the olympic level trains less hard is a joke
Different groups have better biomechanics for certain sports. sprinting oppossed to marathons oppossed to weightlifting. leading to different groups to dominant certain sports such a slight margin but the margin that differetiates.
For mental abilities savants(austics with special genius skills) can do things that brains considered normal cannot. autism caused by genetic markers, Many disorders have genetic correlations thus genetic giftedness will also be correlated to genetics.
Mainstream psychology sums up a person as P=Situational+Genetics
Both answers complete a person.
Read identical twin studies for genetic correlations

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Thanks for being so specific

Sing from the diaphragm more. Then think about increasing your tone, range and pitch in the songs that you write, otherwise it comes across a little 'nice but bland', dont be scared to try a harder range of other artist's songs and reduce the tendency to dumb them down to a limited vocal range.

That what you were after?

Cycling (particularly up hills), silky smooth legs and all!

I love how ridiculous things get when "inner game" comes up... always the two sided arguments of... well word on the street is vs. well my text book says. I say take it all with a grain of salt, all of it, question it all and figure out what works best yourself. Many self help programs are little more then good marketing, some are great some are not. Psychologists have one of the highest rates of depression and suicide of any profession, but there are also many psychologists who have helped a great many people. I don't intend to get into this whole debate because most people know where I stand on the "inner game" issue, or at least most of those who I would consider knowledgeable enough on the subject to have a debate on the issue do.

Back to topic,

I'm really good at getting really good at things. By this I mean I'm fantastic at pushing myself to somewhere around the top 5-10%, I dislike the idea of listing past accomplishments like this but my post may get attacked and or questioned about what I've "gotten so good at" if I don't list a couple things, and I'm actually getting to a point I consider useful with this post. So here are a couple things:

Professionally Drafted Baseball Player
Deans List in College at 15
Built a Multi-Million Dollar Real Estate Investment Firm by 21
First profitable business at age 9 in web design I made 4 sites for local businesses that summer and earned just over $1000 (which I thought was BIG money, lol)
Used half of my website income to fund a new model a couple years later, where I essentially arbitraged pokemon cards, I made almost $5,000 doing this for a few months.
At 17 I decided I cared about dating and was in a relationship with my highschools cheer captain 2 weeks later.

You get the point. And interestingly enough this brings me back to an inner game point that is my real reason for posting all of this. Why do I succeed? 2 main reasons. 1 because I have what many people, and virtually all of the proponents for an academic psychology approach have repeatedly said you can't have, unless of course you have a mental disorder, and that is basically universal confidence. But upon further examination is that so strange a thing to have? If you have had success nearly universally in your life, then why wouldn't you be confident in most any new endeavor? I actually see new endeavors as all having a common denominator that is very heavily linked to success, and that element is me.

Also the other major reason in my opinion is that I welcome failure while striving to succeed. Do not take this the wrong way, I want to win every time, and I HATE losing. But I don't view failures that way, I view every failed attempt as a learning experience and a requisite step in the process of success. as the old saying goes "I'll give you a recipe for success, double your rate of failure." And in fact for all my successes I have had many failures along the way for each one, the only real difference between those successes and things I have tried and did not eventually become successful at, is I stopped trying on the overall failures and simply did not on the successes. Now generally I will drop certain pursuits if I discover different factors, such as less passion then expected, or skewed initial testing results (for business) but deciding what to stick with and what to let go is AT MINIMUM another thread to itself.

Anyway thats the point I felt compelled to convey after seeing this thread.

Im good at cooking

Thanks for your response. But you are arguing that practice does not influence success in sprinting etc. I already totally agree with you, there are some sports/skills that rely heavily on genetics not practice, but I am not arguing that you can get better at them with practice, I am arguing that you can get better at activities that rely on skills not genetics. I also agree that IQ is genetic and do not dispute that.

And what you are saying about P=Situational + Genetics
That is totally irrelevant, we all know that, and I am not arguing that a person is either fully situation or fully genetic. I am saying that we don't inherit skills and they are situational. This can be shown by members of your familly:

My mum and dad are great at arty things. If your inference that genetics are responsible for skills is true. Then all three children would be good or naturally gifted at art. Lets just put it this way, I am absolutely shocking at all things art related, same goes for my brother (my sister is good at art though). I am completely opposite to my parents, (my parents were never good at sports), and me and my brother prove that genetics are not the basis for expertise. I am a very good footballer (soccer) and have been scouted for Chelsea and my brother is a very good rugby player.

On closer examination we can see why my and my brother are sh*t at art and my sister is good. I hate art, I find it boring and pointless and have never persued it further than in school. Same goes for my brother. You might say "well you never tried at it and thats why your sh*t". Even when I tried I was awful. That is mainly because whilst some kids were drawing paintings and sketching, I was outisde in the garden kicking a ball around, having no passion at all for art. And it's quite simple for my sister, she loves drawing.

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