It is makes you feel any better, I’m not very good at avoiding emotional involvement and keeping some shit to myself. Sometimes I get embarrassed about my over-disclosure or over-emotionality and go away for a while.
I used to do it in real life but now it’s just you lucky fellows.
My life changed immensely when I realized two things:
1.) I can get better at most things that I’m bad at… if I work at them (learn the best technique and practice it).
2.) I can enjoy doing things that I’m bad at, if I don’t have to be good.
A perfect example is playing football (soccer). I’m working on getting all the way up to “second rate”, but I’m clearly the least competent player on my team. The day I decided to enjoy playing anyways, everything changed…
I guess I’d call it “Let myself be mediocre but happy.”
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See, this all applies to Art, as well. Who’s to say you can’t have fun and communicate ideas with stick figures? Look at Randall Munroe (xkcd and What If? books and videos)!
Very true. I’m mediocre at best. But a few times I turned out drawings that are ‘Hey, that’s pretty good’.
This is generally very good advice. However in the example I gave above, where I pointed out I’m really bad at the two primary skills involved in piloting aircraft, it’s probably not 
I, too, was hopeless at math. I am ‘on the spectrum’ and think it’s a brain thing. Dyscalculia. I can do addition/subtraction/multiplication/division, laboriously. Anything more than that, forget it! (still count on my fingers, too.). I was great at other subjects, but not numbers.
Also, socially inept. I had a hellacious time making friends from age single digits unto this very day. Horrible at small talk, self-conscious, I tend to avoid people altogether after having been hurt terribly all through the years. (I was always used, being anxious for acceptance and approval.) Eternal designated driver, ‘go with me to my medical appointment’, ‘drive me here, drive me there, wait for me out in the car’. Thinking I was someone’s loved one, someones’s friend, and I was. Till someone BETTER came along for them, and then it was sayonara, sucker.
I have Wernicke-Korsakov syndrome, which means my short term memory is … weak.
Long term is still OK.
I used to write on my hand, and still do, but because I come from a software dev career, I use a KANBAN/SCRUM app.
So this is basically a glorified “to do” list, usually used for project planning. But it can easily be adapted into a memory aid. Shopping lists, chores etc can be all “memorized” and sorted as necessary.
Great idea really. I use a Alexa shopping list app. It’s good enough. And I like that I don’t have to keep more stuff in my brain.
I got notes all over the place. I also bought a tablet for no other purpose but to take notes. My life has been a bit crazy lately. Selling one house and buying another. Sure, people do it all the time, but this is new to me.