Let’s accept it as a given that we, here, are all brilliant. But it is very hard to be brilliant at everything. What can you not do or grasp?
Your response may be about a skill/task or just some sort of knowledge that you cannot get a handle on.
As for me, I am horrible at navigation/driving directions. I may have been to Larry’s Adult Emporium dozens of times, and I may have been to Albert’s Grease Bucket Restaurant a hundred times, but if I am tasked to navigate from Albert’s to Larry’s I’ll need a GPS, 2 maps, and a bloodhound.
I’m a big baseball fan, and sports fan in general, and I can’t really follow the deeper mechanics of the game. I could not look at a pitch and tell you what type it is. My eyes glaze over when people on Twitter post pitch maps and are like “Wow look at that!” I never remember who hits to which side of the field or tends to ground out vs fly out. Some of the expanded stats I have no idea about. Still, I listen to the game every night.
Same with football and basketball. I enjoy watching the games, and I follow along just fine but where an analyst can look at a play and see a pattern to which players went where and whether or not things were properly executed, I just see a mess of bodies and a ball.
Remembering peoples’ names/identities. I stopped trying, and just accept the fact that if I don’t hang out with someone all the time I’m going to forget who they are.
I get pretty pissy about this. If someone approaches me and they can’t believe I don’t remember them, I’m not going to play their game. I’ve come right out and told people to fuck off in the “guess who I am” game.
Nor the reason anybody would drink light beer. I keep asking people, and they just get either surly or dumbfounded, rather than try to explain it. I suspect it is because the media/industrial complex cum authority figure commands them to.
I am directionally dyslexic. I have lost my car in the parking lot more than once. Even making the effort to remember I parked next to the tree doesn’t help.
Math hurts too.
However, I am a spectacular speller and grammar fiend. I have been known not to purchase something because there was a grammatical error on the package.
Numbers/math. Percentages, most multiplication, etc. I rely on calculators a lot, and sometimes I still use my fingers for basic counting (I’m 44). My parents both earned their degrees in math, and when I was a kid they would often wonder WTF happened. I’d rather slightly overtip someone–by rounding up–than try to figure out what 20% would actually be. And so on.
(Once, after getting help from someone at work with some pretty basic math-related stuff, I embarassedly said, “I swear I’m good at other things!”)