# What do other people do effortlessly that you work hard at but still suck at? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 7, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-people-do-effortlessly-that-you-work-hard-at-but-still-suck-at/509135 "2009-09-07T02:51:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-people-do-effortlessly-that-you-work-hard-at-but-still-suck-at/509135/41 "2009-09-08T02:22:16Z")
Cooking rice. I am a failure as an Asian. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-people-do-effortlessly-that-you-work-hard-at-but-still-suck-at/509135/42 "2009-09-08T02:25:03Z")
I’m so jealous of my fiancee’s natural ability to cook. He’s taken classes, of course, but he has an inborn grace with a knife that I am so jealous of. Then again, I bet he wishes he could write like me. He’s one of those who confuse to too and two… and I have an English degree and have always been able to write well. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-people-do-effortlessly-that-you-work-hard-at-but-still-suck-at/509135/43 "2009-09-08T02:46:30Z")
Cooking rice, also, I just use a non-stick saucepan and hope for the best. Alton Brown, my hero of cookery suggests the oven, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to go through that for rice. Art-like things. Despite even looking at those “how to draw \_\_\_\_\_\_” books as a child, I still can’t make anything besides crudely-drawn stick figures. The other night at a house show, I was to illustrate a sign that said “Beer for [del]Blowjobs[/del] Dollars” (it and the cover were to raise money for one of our friends who had passed away.) Anyway, I had to figure out how to illustrate fellatio in stick-figure form, and ended up with a goofy-looking gloryhole setup. Juggling - I also had a book on this as a child, and could never figure out the juggling-three-things concept. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-people-do-effortlessly-that-you-work-hard-at-but-still-suck-at/509135/44 "2009-09-08T02:49:42Z")
I got another one…Creativity. I’m an AWFUL when it comes to being at all creative. I see people that can sit down and draw something, anything and it looks at least okay. Not only can I not draw, I wouldn’t even be able to think of something to draw. Look at my user name, my email address is Nec3f@\_\_\_\_. Wanna know why. Because when I set it up it was the model number of the monitor I was looking at. My mom is still mad that her email address is V34isp@ (the model number for a modem that was sitting next to me). Let’s go for a drive the wife says, and at every corner I can’t decide which way to turn. Ask me for a restaurant suggestion, not gonna happen, it’ll take me 20 minutes to think of something. And the list goes on and on. ---
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-people-do-effortlessly-that-you-work-hard-at-but-still-suck-at/509135/45 "2009-09-08T03:19:24Z")
I have always felt that I can’t dress like an adult male. I always thought that “adult men” wore sports jackets and slacks on adult dates, but that has never happened with me. On occasions when I wore suits on dates, they were with long-established girlfriends when going to weddings and such. In recent years, I’ve gravitated towards the definition that, by gum, I’m in my mid-40s and I’m doing well at my career, so: good “working” shoes (Timberland, Bass, etc.), jeans and various types of cotton button-down shirts are what adult males wear, at least when they’re wearing my underwear. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-people-do-effortlessly-that-you-work-hard-at-but-still-suck-at/509135.md?page=2)