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Lyn Alden
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What are some skills that you don’t understand at all?

For me music is at the top of the list. My husband can hear a tune and then with a few tries he can play the tune on the piano.

He barely had any music lessons but can somehow do that. I had guitar lessons, and my teacher tried to get me to do that, but I was terrible. So not only can’t I do it, I don’t really even know where I’d begin. The inability to even see the next step.

Like if I see a pro athlete do something, I know I can’t do it, but I get the basic idea of what they did to get to that stage on kind of a step by step basis. But when someone can hear music and then just play the melody, my mind is blown.
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Vanessa · 80w
Programming. nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s tries to explain it to me and he’s tried to get me to try…just completely don’t get it. Like not even the basics 🤣
NostrGarden · 80w
I’ve been admiring people like your husband for many years as I struggle to learn the guitar myself. My youngest brother has this skill and it’s impressive to watch.
Seanz · 80w
high level math, quantum mechanics, woodworking
royster⚡️ · 80w
Skateboarding. I don’t even think it’s real. Proof of simulation.
jamw · 80w
Coding. Brain is too smooth/inelastic now…
Bitcoin 4 Precedence! · 80w
Music and coding.
Hendy · 80w
This is part of why IQ tests are so limited and difficult to create. One of my psychology professors illustrated this point one day when he asked if Michael Jordans innate ability to be at the right place at the right time on the court was a sign of intelligence. If so then how could an equation o...
Rene · 80w
I'm like your husband with music, but I believe that it is somehow in everyones brain. Look at what happens in this video, is incredible. Although I'm an enginneer, when looking for a solution for a problem I need to quickly search some go-by example, and only then I can come with my own (hopefuly i...
proof of god · 80w
I can hear songs and play them on piano instantly too, but I’m baffled by advanced musical composition. You listen and you’re like “yeah, sounds incredible” but you have no clue how they made the music/where they started from. So fascinating
Adrian M Lopez · 80w
Macroeconomics 😜
Ben Eng · 80w
I'm the same. I can't play music and don't understand where to begin. I've even read books on music theory recently. After reading about the circle of fifths and not understanding (unable to see the pattern), music feels further out of reach than ever. If music is an art, it is a black art.
Hoos37 · 80w
Those folks with the insane ability to do lighting speed (mental) mathematical calculations.
Seraf · 80w
Surgeons, i admire those people.
Scale Bar · 80w
Imagining and composing this while completely deaf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s0Mp7LFI-k
Rafael Carmo · 80w
Unfortunately for me it’s cooking 😢
duro · 80w
Small talk that lasts for more than a few minutes
gotham_now · 80w
I worked with someone in a study group for advanced calculus/differential equations courses who could read a mathematical proof and then solve the appropriate problem set. I only ever understood the proof after working through some problems. It was inspiring and humbling.
Keith Meola · 80w
Painting and drawing as an art. I have zero skill when it comes to both of these. I had to take a few classes as well for my degree (bachelor of fine arts) and it was incredibly frustrating. not being able to create "art"
frphank · 80w
Cooking. I've seen animals and plants out in nature and ostensibly the food on my plate is made from them. Yeah right. I think magic is a much more plausible explanation. That's why so-called "cookbooks" are full of magic incantations. Like adding salt "to taste". How much is "to taste"!?? That's n...
Hoos37 · 80w
I wouldn't say people don't understand this but most people really struggle with the skill of true empathy....the ability to understand another person's perspective. When you have it, it is an absolute game changer for relationships and life I'm general.
Priscilla Hernandez · 80w
I am a musician and until recently I eould have said dancing but I have started at my old age lol. But I fo not do well money related things lol and I am definitely not tech savvy eith computer stuff
@Beacon_valley · 80w
Mine too. Recently retired and starting from absolute zero, nada, created space to learn scale, structure and time. Now “playing” guitar and some keyboard. It will come…seems miraculous actually, my ear now at least conceiving the possibility of your husband’s capability. May you enjoy futu...
Orange Pilled Dictator · 80w
This makes me happy because this is probably the only thing I have a better understanding of than Lyn. So much respect for you.
SimOne · 80w
I thought everybody could do that to some degree?! I bet you could if you really tried!
Rusty Russell · 80w
Anyone who can do a backflip.
Pichuco Hodl · 80w
Not sure why but in my experience (30 years) as a guitar player I have seen more pianists being able to pull out songs quickly by ear than guitar players. Maybe it is just a coincidence or maybe the piano makes it easier to develop the listening skills. Would love to know.
hello ⁷ 🪺 · 80w
i’m always in totally awe of sketch artists or painters who make hyper-realistic sketches or paintings. 🤯
BitcoinStu · 80w
Yeah, they just have some neural wiring that you don't have. I have the same experience with my inability to draw. As a child I had a friend who, at 12 years old, could draw anything he could see. Just photorealistic perfect representations of anything he looked at. No training, no study, could ...
HalvingFun · 80w
Adopting an unknown language within a short time. I cannot understand when people say, "oh I took up Japanese last year ahead of our trip" and could somehow manage during the trip. How?
Scale Bar · 80w
Storytelling. Jokes off the top of your head. Remembering song lyrics. Baffled by how some can effortlessly do these.
Andy · 80w
Speaking to large crowds. My brain would have me believe I'm fighting 30 bears.
Carlton · 80w
I’ve played guitar since I was a kid and i largely learned by ear. The kicker for me was that I can also sing. The ability to listen and match pitch or sing along to the radio helped a ton when I was starting out. For guitar now, I just put a record on and play along as I learn the song. The k...
Jordan · 80w
That’s always something I think humans can learn. You should try the music IQ test online, specifically pitch matching section, to see if you can hone that skill. If you can do that you’re 80 percent there. Just then sing the individual notes of a melody and check yourself. You’ll be in the ne...
Olivier · 80w
Same here with my other half, I can hear her say, well at least music and singing are two things I'm better at than you 😂
HODLBurger · 80w
In general how well would you say you can 'hear' things in your mind 1-10? What about 'picture' them?
Bo Schinski · 80w
I can’t understand how people can draw. I’ve never been able to acquire that ability.
Bosstone · 80w
It’s pattern recognition, Lyn! No different than how you seem to seamlessly look at a few basic financial charts from the 70s, 40s and prior periods and confidently say ‘Yea I think we are living through a period that resembles X with characteristics of Y.’ As a musician with a finance backg...