What subjects do you consider yourself adept (smart, knowledgeable, skilled), and which do you consider yourself an idiot? Please say why as well, whether it be experience, training, etc.
I'm making this thread because it genuinely interests me what people here seem to be super-smart about. This obviously doesn't keep people who claim they're smart or dumb at something from actually being smart or dumb at that thing, and regardless, please don't turn this thread into why someone who claims to be smart in something actually isn't.
Adept:
Idiot:
I'm making this thread because it genuinely interests me what people here seem to be super-smart about. This obviously doesn't keep people who claim they're smart or dumb at something from actually being smart or dumb at that thing, and regardless, please don't turn this thread into why someone who claims to be smart in something actually isn't.
Adept:
- Games - Focusing on play experience, game play mechanics and design, theory, history, and prior industry experience, primarily with video games. Also studied in "interactive art" in college.
- (Software) Testing - Partly due to my current and previous jobs, partly due to some training I've taken, primarily in the analytical aspect and less on the technical.
- Fiction Writing - Primarily through consistent amateur craft and graduating college with an extended minor in writing.
- Media and Communication Studies - The major I obtained in college; knowing ups and downs of various media, survey of history and theories.
- Visual Arts - Primarily in animation (my initial major), its history and such, less so in skilled craft.
Idiot:
- STEM subjects - Particularly in mathematics. I can be competent at the more conceptual aspects (basic logic and theories) which can sometimes go a long way, and as a whole, I feel super-dumb with these areas.
- Politics and Economics - From the simple level of office politics and managing my own financial future to political and economic theory used across nations to haggling or resource management in games, the whole swath boggles my mind.
- Foreign Languages - I wasn't ever terribly good at learning even something like French, and learning anything with a different alphabet or huge cultural differences is a high wall for me. I'm lumping programming languages under this as well, though there's a double whammy with that one for the STEM aspect.
- "Handy man" skills - Don't have them, and an idiot when it comes to that stuff.
- Music - From personal skill to domain and theoretical knowledge, I've often been terrible with things related to music.
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