The converse of this thread.
For me, it’s singing and dancing. I have no singing voice and zero grace and coordination. Yet I love musical theatre and would so like to be able to do it. I can picture dance moves in my brain, but simply can’t get my body to cooperate.
I’m much the same way. Oh, how I love to sing and dance! Oh, how my singing and dancing scares people away! We didn’t even have a dance floor at my wedding because I just didn’t want to have to do that in front of everyone I know, that is how bad I am at dancing.
My other big interest is science. In my fantasy life I wear a lab coat and do important experiments with beakers and stuff. I even have quite an aptitude for the sciences for the most part. I’m not good with math though and despite having a pretty good understanding of the basics of most scientific fields I don’t think I could get through them without having to work with equations so that is right out.
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The converse of this thread.
For me, it’s singing and dancing. I have no singing voice and zero grace and coordination. Yet I love musical theatre and would so like to be able to do it. I can picture dance moves in my brain, but simply can’t get my body to cooperate.[/QUOT
Play guitar like Jimi Hendrix… or hit a baseball like Ken Griffey Jr. I played a little basketball… so I’m not quite in awe of Kobe…(except his desire to succeed).
Annie, I’m living proof that it takes absolutely no talent whatsoever to vigorously and enthusiastically get it going on the dance floor. My purpose is to make everyone feel much less self-conscious about their lack of dance skills. “I can’t be worse than that guy!” is the the response I seek.
I’m a wonderful dancer but I really want to sing. I have almost all of the requisites, too! I have an exquisite ear for tone, I can memorize lyrics in just a few goes, I remember them for a long time, and I have emotion. BUT I just cannot sing at all. Cannot carry a tune in a bucket, and it makes me so sad.
Oh, I will get up and dance in an informal setting, and to hell with what people think. However, nobody is going to put me on stage and pay me big bucks to do it.
Mathematics, and many subjects/fields of work which involve lots of math, utterly fascinate me and I really wish I was naturally talented in this way. But I have a diagnosis of dyscalculia and have always struggled to comprehend everything to do with math, numbers, time, puzzles, etc. I never made it past 8th-grade level math in school.
Thinking of it now, this might be a big part of why I never went to college and have no plans for a real career. Academically, I find most things I have plenty of natural talent in boring or frustrating (music, sculpture, writing/literary pursuits).
Carpentry, furniture making to be more precise. I’m not so coordinated with tools, and I have little patience. I’d love to be able to craft some custom furniture.
I want to play the bagpipes.
But I have all the musical talent and ability of a blocked nostril.
Drawing. I think of things all the time that I’d love to be able to make a drawing of. Zero talent in that area, though.
It’s bagpipes, how can you tell? 
For me, pretty much everything. I lack talent, period.
The people that have said they wished they could sing should hear me try to sing.
And then they would say, about their own talent, “Huh. I’m not so bad after all. Compared to Bricker, I’m Pavarotti!”
Play guitar well. Twenty plus years playing and I still play at a very basic level.
Can’t sing at all, wish I could.
Wish I could dance well, too.
same here. though on the former I gave up trying a long time ago. actually it’s pretty much anything requiring creative talent that is beyond my reach.
To play the violin.
To play the banjo.
To play the piano or guitar well.
Yup. I have a somewhat photographic memory so often I’ll think “hey! I can just draw it from memory!” Nope. Can’t do it. In fact, I found some old elementary school report cards awhile back and in preschool on up through perhaps 2nd grade I had several report card statements saying the teacher was worried about my eye-hand coordination and/or my sense of reality since I never managed to draw things better than stick figures or balloon people :smack:
I want to be able to cook! I am generally creative but my food experiments are disastrous. I like to plan and grocery shop and read/ research and I do okay at math, but I cannot seem to grasp the basics, much less do anything inventive or fancy.
Ice skating.
In my head I’m Michelle Kwan. On my feet I’m well barely on my feet.
Sex.
Regards,
Shodan
Sing, dance, act, musical instrument.
I’m mediocre/average, not truly bad at any of these things (no one runs away from me when I sing in church and I only rarely trip over other people on the dance floor) but just far less than good and nowhere near great.