What do you have a great talent for and no interest in?

Not a great talent, but a long time back I got interested in Go (the board game) and some guys who were quite accomplished said I was making excellent progress. But I had to give it up - it pretty much literally made my head hurt. The concentration necessary to play well became actively unpleasant. My vision would get weird - with a respectable number of stones played, the board would sort of “swim” in front of me.

I haven’t gone back to it. Indeed, the thought of doing so is itself unpleasant.

if you’re a good writer I beg you to publish. There isn’t enough good reading out there!
Or at least send me copies… :slight_smile:

Teaching.

Well, now I look like a copycat, but…teaching. I have taught something to someone since I was in sixth grade. I have a teaching degree, and did some substitute teaching for a few years. I have taught adult education classes in the crafts I love. I train people at work all the time. I am a natural teacher, and I love begin up in front of a group of students, helping them learn something new. But to be a full-time teacher in a school, especially a high school these days? Zero interest. I don’t want to deal with petulant teenagers, crazy parents, or school bureaucracies. I think a lot of the teaching techniques used today are crap. I didn’t like how the school systems treated my less-than-perfect kids, and a lot of school policies are just counter-productive. Yes, it seems a waste of a degree and talent…but I just have zero interest right now.

I don’t know how unusual this is, but evidently I’m a natural marksman. The first time I picked up a rifle my stance and (not sure what you call it) ‘manner of holding it’ were perfect, according to the lifelong hunter in my company at the time. I nailed all targets without any misses. Granted, I’ve never actually been hunting; we were just shooting at stationary targets, but according to her I looked as if I had been trained.

The 2nd and last time was on a cruise ship shooting at skeet. I hit my five out of five and just figured I was a lucky shot, but who knows, maybe that’s my true calling. Of course, I have zero interest in hunting or anything that has to do with firearms.