What's something you do very well and your proud of?

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I think I'm really good with animals, but that's not really something you "do". I'm good at some other random stuff that doesn't come to mind.

I wish I could say I am good at playing the accordion, but I can't get my mom to rent one for me.

I used to play the baritone/cornet/trumpet in middle school really well, but I doubt I can well anymore, since that was 2 and a half years ago, and I haven't even touched one since.

I am proud of my psychic abilities

I am not proud of anything that I do well.

I enjoy doing things well and am glad when I have the opportunity to do them well.
I'm especially glad when I help others using the things that I can do well.

But, this doesn't make me proud, it makes me feel glad.

There's a difference.


I don't know what it's like to feel proud.
I know what it's like to be satisfied with a job well done.

It's hurt me more than it's helped me when people say that I "should be proud".
How exactly?
If I feel uncomfortable trying to be proud, then why should people insist that I be proud just to please them?


I like doing things well to the best of my ability.
I just hate the fake handshakes and awards afterwards.

These don't make me feel proud: they make me feel awkward and embarrassed.
I don't see why I have to get up on stage in front of a load of people just to justify my existence.

All of this talk of "fulfilling potential" and "being proud" is incredibly unhelpful.
How do people know when they're proud and have fully reached their potentials?
How do you measure potential anyway?

I don't have a clue.

Some songs I play over and over on guitar and piano.

I'm a really fast learner and can do certain kinds of things really fast, well and easily. People turn to me when they need help understanding something.

I'm very good at languages. I speak several languages and am constantly adding to my language skills.

I'm very good with animals and seem to have a special connection with them, which makes me really happy and proud. Animals tend to follow me around and get friendly with me easily, even those that are generally aggressive towards other people or afraid of them. For example, there was a dog that was said to be really hard to handle and that would literally try to eat me alive if it got the chance, but this dog remained calm when I went inside the fence and turned out to be really friendly and sweet towards me and followed me around all the time and let me play with it, pet it, comb its fur etc., yet barked aggressively and tried to attack and bite everyone else it saw (except the owner). The owner, who had had the dog for 14 years, had never ever seen the dog behave like that towards anyone, let alone a stranger it was seeing for the first time.

There's a small and entirely subjective difference for me.
One aspect of doing something really well is the satisfaction which that alone brings - but feeling proud about it can come later, when (say) you might come across something you'd done some time ago.
For me, I can get a small feeling (a glow?) that feels a bit like surprise when I rediscover just how much work I'd put into something and how I can re-evaluate it yet still find no holes or something I wish I'd done differently.
So then it becomes more of a self-affirming "it was very well done" than a basic "it was done". Not just an achievement, but a damn good one.

Oh dear... Well, something like that anyways.

Me too! Do you have Portuguese in your list of languages by the way?

No, not Portuguese I'm afraid.

Hmm bummer! Anyhow, which ones do you have down? Sorry the Q, language is one of my obsessions. So I like when people share similar obsessions with me. LOL.

I can do OK: English, German, Russian and Romanian.
I'm studying: French, Swedish, Latin and Gaelic.

And how about you?

Awesome, two other languages learners.

I just got into languages two and a half years ago, but I am learning Basque and Latin, and I have some vestigial skill in German from when I studied and wanted to be fluent in that.

I'm proud to say I'm one of the relatively few people in the world learning Basque.

Being a puddingmouse.
Playing Scrabble.
Ingesting things that make other people sick and not being sick.
Remembering things that nobody else remembers.

I once had a contact with Basque... but I did an extra effort to not become an obsession. Back then we didn't have internet and one couldn't find a book on that at all! So I would just become frustrated.

Attaboy! Basque can be quite difficult! Keep up with that one!

I speak good Icelandic, English, Czech and Danish. I've also studied French, Spanish, Latin and Finnish and would rate my knowledge in those as intermediate. I've dabbled a bit in a few other languages and understand a lot in them, but I wouldn't say I actually speak them.

I used to be really obsessed with languages for years, but it has become less of an obsession for me now, although I'm still interested in them.

Haha yeah it can, but it's worth it to me.

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Creative writing.