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Before moving forward, the way I'm defining talent here is being able to do something with a natural ability and sense. Of course, talents are developed into special skills or attributes, but I'm directing my question to something you are good at without much pratice. If your talent has developed into a special skill, make sure to let us know in the comments.

My special talent is drawing. I'm by no means the best, but for as long as I can remember I've been praised for some good drawings, especially regarding my age when I was much younger. This developed more into a special skill with practice and classes, but originally I started with a knack for attention to detail.

I guess one more talent is being a good listener and advice giver. People come to me for advice at a strangely high rate. It's because of that forementioned attention to detail that I'm usually able to catch details others usually miss.

Next?

My talent is being able to look at a job being performed, break down the actions involved into small elements with steps and key points, and put it into a format that allows people to be trained how to do it in a fraction of the time it would normally take to train them.

I suppose my main talents are cooking and imbibing alcohol.

Fixing things. Computers, plumbing, coat racks drunkenly stumbled over on Mardi Gras. Things.

I'm also far better than I thought I'd be at baking. I make a mean sourdough bread.

Flying.

And martini lunches.

Fix things outside of electronics. Skin animals and process them for food, ride horses, gardening, wood working and I am told I am a great cook.

Very few of these talents ever translate to money

I am a facilitator.

I know people. People who know people who know other people who can do stuff. I put people in touch with these people so they can get stuff done.

I've always fancied myself as an above average painter and writer.

Drama, reading and writting.

I look great in hats.

I'm invulnerable to Kyptonite; on the down side Earth elements and its Yellow sun make me wheezy, a bit too hot at all times and out of breath if I run up too many stairs.

Damn adopted parents, of all the planets!

 dakkajet wrote:
Drama, reading and writting.

Obviously proof-reading is not one of your skills, then.

I can read pretty fast.
I can tell if it's not butter.

My talents are most things musical, except singing. In my teens I was praised for my drawing but I haven't drawn in years so I guess that's all gone.

And I'm very good at spotting Jabba the Hutt where he isn't.

mediocrity...

Nothing. Talents are for people who expect to live long enough to use their abilities for something worthwhile.

Irritating my wife.

Although I have been practicing that for a bit now...

I can paint an army to a decent standard pretty quickly.

I can explain complicated things to people easily in a format they can understand.

Being a talentless hack.

Leigen_Zero wrote:mediocrity...

Captain Fantastic wrote:Nothing. Talents are for people who expect to live long enough to use their abilities for something worthwhile.

Easy E wrote:Being a talentless hack.

Well aren't you three cheery.

I learn extremely quickly and then end up doing things faster and better then others

I can bake most anything (from scratch) and have it turn out good even if I don't follow a recipe.

I can make anyone I've known for a day laugh.

Cunnilingus

I can make everyone around me hate me in under ten minutes (it's a pallid skill though)
I can make people laught with a single sentence. "space wolf poopy juice"

 Ma55ter_fett wrote:
I can bake most anything (from scratch) and have it turn out good even if I don't follow a recipe.

I can make anyone I've known for a day laugh.

Cunnilingus

The third talent made the second talent come true, I giggled

 the shrouded lord wrote:
I can make everyone around me hate me in under ten minutes (it's a pallid skill though)
I can make people laught with a single sentence. "space wolf poopy juice"

Huh, that claim of a second talent made the first talent come true.

Luxurious body hair.

Is being ordinary with no apparent talents a talent?

Oh oh I can blind into crowds so well that I become invisible. Yes I'm that ordinary.

I really only have two I can think of off hand.

1.) I can learn most musical instruments fairly quickly...but I started at a young age, and most of my relatives have some kind of musical background.

2.) I'm a pretty good cook, but I'm the best at barbecue/grilling.

I am a people person (as much as I hate it), and a problem solver.

I have a genetic trait to where, within 5-10 minutes of talking to someone they feel completely comfortable with me, as if they've known me for years, or like they are the most important person to me at the moment.

The problem solver thing has been enhanced with my army training. But in general, I've been able to look at things (guns, computers, cars, THINGS) that were in a nonworking state, and be able to know how to get them into a working state. I don't always have the requisite skills to perform some of the tasks needed to make things go from not working to working, but I will know what/how it would be done. This has also applied to making space livable. As in, while down range in Iraq, we took over a new area, and with plywood, screws and a saw, I was able to make storage lockers (well, cabinets), shelving units, desks/tables and things to make our space useful for more people than by rights should have been able to fit in there with all their gear.