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Jim's Cafe - Friday - August 23, 2024 "the skills Cafe"
- Thread starter Angie
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hey Angie and everyone. im back again on the day of. kinda amazing. i've watched the Café evolve over the several years i've been here. I've probably evolved too. but i've always loved to grab a cup of tea or coffee and sit by the big sunny window with something nice to eat for breakfast. So this one thing remains consistent. There have been a lot of Cafés. i wonder if anyone attended them all.
I've been healing from my surgery and it is a slow process. everything hurts but finally after a month post-op i started to see signs of improvement today so finally i am allowing myself to feel positive once again. And conveniently.... its a sunny day. i'll be back shorthly to get to the Qs.
I've been healing from my surgery and it is a slow process. everything hurts but finally after a month post-op i started to see signs of improvement today so finally i am allowing myself to feel positive once again. And conveniently.... its a sunny day. i'll be back shorthly to get to the Qs.
I agree. I wouldn’t take any pride in a skill that I didn’t have to put effort in to learn. Nonetheless, I feel like I’m especially bad at piano. I have played electric bass professionally, so I know music theory and how to use dynamics. The keyboard, however, mystifies me. I’m still trying to figure out how to do chords in the left hand while playing a melody on my right hand. My typing speed is in the 90 wpm range because I develop software as my day job, so I know it’s not physical. Maybe it’s a learning block because I’m trying too hard? Oh well, I still enjoy it when I give up on sounding awesome and just play at my current level.
Maybe I would prefer to be better at learning how to play. It’s been a very steep learning curve so far.
Thanks @Angie for opening again, and @MisterBGone for inviting me. I actually had work to do today at work. Of course I had to finish it before the end of day so I have very little to do Monday...
Now to the Q's!
If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be and why? I would love to sing better, at least passable. Even in church when everyone is singing I try to sing softly enough not to hear myself. But with my present schedule I don't have time or money for singing.
What skill do you think everyone should have? I fall in line with those highlighting critical thinking. I also wish people watched the news and had a general awareness of things going on in the world. I can't count how many people do not have this awareness in the world. It's important for a free society.
Now to the Q's!
If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be and why? I would love to sing better, at least passable. Even in church when everyone is singing I try to sing softly enough not to hear myself. But with my present schedule I don't have time or money for singing.
What skill do you think everyone should have? I fall in line with those highlighting critical thinking. I also wish people watched the news and had a general awareness of things going on in the world. I can't count how many people do not have this awareness in the world. It's important for a free society.
Thank you for the tag @JMG, beautiful pics as always 
If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be and why?
Learn all the languages I want to easily because I enjoy learning new ones.
What skill do you think everyone should have?
To know how to be kind and have empathy towards others.
If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be and why?
Learn all the languages I want to easily because I enjoy learning new ones.
What skill do you think everyone should have?
To know how to be kind and have empathy towards others.
If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be and why?
I always wanted to learn to fly. My dad had his license, my mother went through everything except having the license. I enjoyed it and it is fun but expensive as all get out to take the lessons and the cost per hour is pretty up there. My niece is rated for most everything except airliners. She wanted to be Air Force and then an astronaut and got her aeronautical engineering degree and flew a while flying private jets like Gulfstream and big prop aircraft like the King Air 350 for businesses. She never got to enlist because of health issues.
What skill do you think everyone should have?
I agree with common sense and thinking. Patience and calm are good. Responsibility ranks high for myself for others to have in their lives is another good one. Often our own problems are our own creation and not the blame the others. I have created so many of mine with bonehead moves. Live and learn.
I always wanted to learn to fly. My dad had his license, my mother went through everything except having the license. I enjoyed it and it is fun but expensive as all get out to take the lessons and the cost per hour is pretty up there. My niece is rated for most everything except airliners. She wanted to be Air Force and then an astronaut and got her aeronautical engineering degree and flew a while flying private jets like Gulfstream and big prop aircraft like the King Air 350 for businesses. She never got to enlist because of health issues.
What skill do you think everyone should have?
I agree with common sense and thinking. Patience and calm are good. Responsibility ranks high for myself for others to have in their lives is another good one. Often our own problems are our own creation and not the blame the others. I have created so many of mine with bonehead moves. Live and learn.
. . . Playing (the) piano, is EASY! Guys..
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Hey, ok a little bit longer than "shortly"....
....and now the Qs!
If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be and why?
New skill... would be "the friend making skill". That's one thing i was never able to learn. And that's the reason I recently started calling myself feral. I've come to realize that my upbringing was in a cult like environment where the family was very insular and led by my narcissistic and sociopathic father with an agenda he promoted in very manipulative ways by presenting as a progressive thinker; culturally, ethnically, racially aware and accepting; and using "fighting for human equality and rights" and "education" as a guise for his preditory ways. Add to that, being enabled by my abused mother who could only accept all that was done to her and her daughter and maybe her sons, in a hopeless effort to gain relief from her own father's abusive ways. In an environment like that learning social skills was not a priority. I became passively feral as a result. I really do wish I knew how to be a friend. That has been my life's failing - to have the feelings yet being unable to let them show and to enrich lives with mutual friendship. So it was no question that this is my answer to the question posed above. Sorry for allowing a bit of bitterness to be seen here as well. I only became aware enough in very recent years to be able to even think of this but nowadays I am on a healing path and that may be seen in my answer to the next question.
What skill do you think everyone should have?
The skill i believe everyone should have is the power of dandelions! The ability to persevere in the face of adversity. dandelions are the symbol of perseverance. They have strong roots and can adjust to situations and environments in order to flourish even in the face of hostility. Then they are nice too by providing benefits to us which serve to strenghten us and them. I fell in love with dandelions when i was very young and had only recently arrived on this challenging planet. I vividly recall one day sitting on the ground playing in the back yard and fascinating over this beautiful fragrant, quite large dandelion flower growing there, and thought about its beauty and strength. (I already knew how challenging to humans its roots are). That day dandelions became my hero. I really needed a source of strength; so yeah! Perseverance in the face of adversity is the skill i believe we all must have. That is the Power of Dandelions. My thanks to dandelions. 👩🦳
....and now the Qs!
If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be and why?
New skill... would be "the friend making skill". That's one thing i was never able to learn. And that's the reason I recently started calling myself feral. I've come to realize that my upbringing was in a cult like environment where the family was very insular and led by my narcissistic and sociopathic father with an agenda he promoted in very manipulative ways by presenting as a progressive thinker; culturally, ethnically, racially aware and accepting; and using "fighting for human equality and rights" and "education" as a guise for his preditory ways. Add to that, being enabled by my abused mother who could only accept all that was done to her and her daughter and maybe her sons, in a hopeless effort to gain relief from her own father's abusive ways. In an environment like that learning social skills was not a priority. I became passively feral as a result. I really do wish I knew how to be a friend. That has been my life's failing - to have the feelings yet being unable to let them show and to enrich lives with mutual friendship. So it was no question that this is my answer to the question posed above. Sorry for allowing a bit of bitterness to be seen here as well. I only became aware enough in very recent years to be able to even think of this but nowadays I am on a healing path and that may be seen in my answer to the next question.
What skill do you think everyone should have?
The skill i believe everyone should have is the power of dandelions! The ability to persevere in the face of adversity. dandelions are the symbol of perseverance. They have strong roots and can adjust to situations and environments in order to flourish even in the face of hostility. Then they are nice too by providing benefits to us which serve to strenghten us and them. I fell in love with dandelions when i was very young and had only recently arrived on this challenging planet. I vividly recall one day sitting on the ground playing in the back yard and fascinating over this beautiful fragrant, quite large dandelion flower growing there, and thought about its beauty and strength. (I already knew how challenging to humans its roots are). That day dandelions became my hero. I really needed a source of strength; so yeah! Perseverance in the face of adversity is the skill i believe we all must have. That is the Power of Dandelions. My thanks to dandelions. 👩🦳
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yeah, i do think hard work is essential to living. for my own situation, as i just expressed above, simply gaining that skill this late in life would benefit me greatly especially because even with that knowledge, the hard work of doing it would still be there. Thanks for pointing that out. the hard work is so important.
I think I would pick to calm down my anxiety and basically my emotions and come back to reality so basically to take care of my nervous system. Because I struggle to calm down my emotions at time, my OCD really triggers never ending trail of thoughts when stressed so I think the skill to be able to relax and get in touch with the present would help a lot
If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be and why?
To be able to adapt from the inside, to all situations and people, as I would like and need.
What skill do you think everyone should have?
An ability to tune into their higher intuition and instinct; also, to see where evil leads.
To be able to adapt from the inside, to all situations and people, as I would like and need.
What skill do you think everyone should have?
An ability to tune into their higher intuition and instinct; also, to see where evil leads.