It’s frowned upon to brag about yourself. But I feel like it’s good to hype yourself up, even if it is a little bit extreme or out of the ordinary! Post in this thread celebrating yourself and letting others know something you’re really good at! I’ll start…
I’m a really good coach. Strength and conditioning primarily but athletics overall. If an athlete comes to me and they have the mindset of improvement it’s a damn near guarantee that I will increase their athleticism and make them stronger, faster, more powerful, etc. I’ve trained young kids to become dominant high school athletes, high school athletes to get full ride scholarships to D1 universities, D1 athletes to get drafted to the NFL, MLB, and NBA, and I even trained a couple of professional athletes as well! All that said in a REALLY good strength and conditioning coach.
What can you brag about?!
I tend to hyperfixate on things and fail upwards. Last year I started coding and now have several bots one is in 44 servers and over 73k members between them all. Ive stayed far away from AI so its real knowledge not whatever the AI is used for.
I not only won the genetic lottery in terms of being in the top 99th percentile of humanity for almost all metrics one could use physically or mentally, I have also become a jack of all trades, and a master of a few.
I did lose the lottery by “picking up” ADD, and ODD upon character creation. That shit hasn’t made anything easy.
I can actually, and I mean like actually, rock a pair of circle lens sunglasses
I can cook better than at least half the people I know (and im being humble). I can cook nearly anything, with the capability to pull complex recipies off in the first go. My only limitations are ingredient availablity.
some people are bakers, some cooks. Im both. Im not great at cake decorating though, but it’ll taste great at least
As a chef, not a baker, the fact that you can pull off both says you should at least look into chef’s and bakers schools. Maybe don’t do it as a career, but you clearly have some talent there that would allow you to have a lot of positive feedback from others, and a sense of personal growth and accomplishment by learning how to make food even more efficiently. The main focus of both schools isn’t proper artistic technique, it’s efficient industrial scale processing of foods. That allows for one to breeze through the prep and truly master the artistic techniques that one may want to use.
My mother in law said I’m a really good dad. Like not even on father’s day, just like randomly once.
aw thats really sweet
I bet that felt amazing. Good on you, high five! 🖐️
I’m incredibly humble.
I’m a million times as humble as thou art
The humblest!
- I make a great vegan ice cream that is loved by many non-vegans.
- I beat depression and anxiety.
- I have a fun job that pays well and I’m good at it.
The horrors persist, but so do I.
solidarity.
I wanted to learn hardware design by designing a basic risc-v processor, ben eater style, kind of like a 1970s minicomputer, with expansion slots for new isa extensions and CSRs. But obviously using real breadboards for experimentation would be too slow when designing a 32 bit processor. I had never touched an hdl before.
So I sat down and started writing my own simulator and netlist generation dsl from scratch. It only works at the gate level, no behavioral synthesis, but flexible enough to write components modelling, for example, 74 series chips. It does vhdl-like delta cycle simulation using 8-valued logic, but without vhdl’s signal forwarding footgun.
I then implemented an rv32i processor with full m-mode support, and a risc-v emulator in rom to trap and silently emulate any missing extension instructions. When a new expansion board is plugged in, those instructions are simply not trapped and are accelerated in hardware.
I then learned just enough systemverilog to faithfully transliterate the generated netlist into structural verilog, and it actually synthesized and worked perfectly on an fpga.
I am now in the process of very slowly designing boards to hopefully one day manage to build the whole thing out of discrete 74hc series logic
you want to know something? I have absolutely no idea what most of that means. That means you not only have acquired some super specialized knowledge and vocabulary, but you have also done it well enough and have a firm enough grasp of it that you can create whatever it is that you did! It sounds super intense and like it took a lot of time and effort. Go you! That is definitely something to be proud of.
Im actually really happy with me personally lately. I still have a lot in life that could be better, but im alive, healthy, and living as my truest self. Everything else will come eventually. I recently started planning for my future for the first time in my life. Its weird. I never thought id live past 25, let alone want to.
My body is a machine that turns Vietnamese supermarkets into Mexican food for my lovely wife. I do not feel pain, or remorse, or pity, & I cannot be stopped unless I am killed.
heck yeah. scavenger hunt gastronomic alchemy!
I’m great at getting dogs to trust me. I work at an animal shelter and we have a ton of strays, neglect, and abuse cases that get brought into our shelter (only a few shelters in our podunk county). These animals are usually fearful and greatly distrusting of people, especially men. I get these dogs to trust me and not be so fearful fairly quickly, and in the short time I’ve been working here I’ve become the goto guy for dogs that are emotionally shutdown. It helps that the shelter I work at is run by great people who have put together a great team that really cares about all our residents. I get to take my time working with these dogs and am not pressured to get it done faster.
There’s something special about people who animals automatically fall in love with. I bet you’re a very loveable person.
I’m better with animals than I am with people, but thank you
I find that very impressive and important!
I work at a wildlife rehab, and today I got bit by a Screech Owl, an opossum, and 2 squirrels. None of that is pleasant, nor is it the first or last time, but after being bit by a lot of animals, I think on the whole, domestics may be worse.
My wild ones pretty much just want to get away from me, but I’m starting to think domestic animals seem to know that they don’t get the chance to escape us, and I think that takes away a lot of the “flight” and we get more “fight” as a result. I’ve been hurt way more by cats and dogs than anything wild.
Also, you getting them calmed down is very important to their future. If my animals hate me, that’s honestly their best outcome. But yours need to unlearn the hard lives they’ve had so they can be in safe homes. I, unfortunately, seem to be built physically like a lot of people that must abuse animals, since a lot of rescue dogs hate me and have given me some scars! 😅 Even my own rescue dog, after 10+ years never liked me as much as she liked my ex or current wife or any female stranger. Shed go to anyone else before me. She’d go to anyone else before me, even though she didn’t quite dislike me, that trust never quite showed up again.
Being able to work with the troubled animals is such an important skill, either to get them care, or in your case to make them able to be rehomed. Good for you for finding out a way to crack the code on these pups! Thanks to you they will get to be someone’s good boy/girl like they deserve!
My wild ones pretty much just want to get away from me, but I’m starting to think domestic animals seem to know that they don’t get the chance to escape us, and I think that takes away a lot of the “flight” and we get more “fight” as a result. I’ve been hurt way more by cats and dogs than anything wild.
My focus is specifically cats, mostly kittens. I’ve fostered both friendly and feral moms with young kittens and have only been bitten by the friendly ones. I need to check on the kittens daily to weigh them, and feral moms have been all “flight” when I reach in to borrow their babies, letting me do whatever as long as I leave her alone. In my experience, it’s only been the friendlier moms that sometimes get defensive of their babies.
Very interesting! I had one rescue cat I got from someone fostering her and she was a total sweety and I could do near anything to her. Then I took in 3 semi-feral neighborhood cats who where calm enough until I tried to give them any kind of medicine or trim their nails and would then have no issue biting me or scratching me up and then go hide for a while. Thankfully for all our sakes, they were all pretty healthy and long lived! 😆
Thanks for the kind words. I bet working with non-domesticated wildlife is a trip, and sounds like it’s also very rewarding
You never know what you’re going to see! We get in animals I never even knew existed, or at least anywhere around here. We see a lot of bad injuries, some animal abuse, and a lot of death, but we also see a ton of miracles and the real spirit of survival.
Here is one of my polite patients from today (and a bit of its roommate’s rump! These two were very cooperative, but it’s been a year since I’ve done opossums, and I usually didn’t have to move them to clean them, so when I went to put these guys in the barrel while I cleaned their crate, they kept grabbing the lip of the barrel and I couldn’t get them all the way in! 😁 That tail is just as good as a fifth hand for a number of things.
The one I did after this was very jumpy and bitey (they can be somewhat shockingly fast in small bursts) and it tried to pee on me when I finally got it secured.
They’ve all got their own backstories they can’t share with us, so some have a tougher time coping with us. Feeling them calm down or drift off to sleep after we feed them is very satisfying.
It’s a bit tough in that they will never love me like a dog or cat, and they all eventually get let go to where I will never know if they have success in life or not, but I get to know I at least got them a second chance. They’re all beautiful and amazing creatures that I’d otherwise never get a peek into their lives the way I do by doing this.
When I do have the energy, I’m a pretty good cook. Also I’m managing to grow things outside. Not like. Well. But they went from seeds to fruit which is the only thing I really wanted.
These are some of my things, too. There’s something special about a meal you cooked with ingredients you grew.
Keep doing what you doing 🌱
I was so happy last year when I grew juuuuust enough tomatoes to can some salsa! Happy!
I have bipolar and addiction issues. I’ve been sober and stable for 8 years. With a lot of work and therapy and meds I’m down to 2 episodes a year and stay very stable outside of those. I’ve also started a program in my city for addicts with mental health issues, for half the month it’s a peer support group, the other weeks we bring in local therapists to run free workshops on DBT skills and principles. This is often the only time many of my regulars can access mental healthcare. For someone with a major mental illness and low education I feel so proud of myself
That’s so dope! Congratulations bettering yourself and others in the process! 🥳🥳🥳
That is great you are able to facilitate that! My wife was in a DBT group during COVID, so I overheard some bits of stories from time to time.
Their group disbanded after something got shut down with the provider running it, and I worried about a lot of those people losing their people to talk to.
My wife’s story wasn’t so bad, so she was able to transition away from group, but some of the people in that group had it really tough.
I’m very grateful for DBT helping my wife get her life back in order after some huge setbacks, and now she is very successful in her daily life thanks in a huge part to that group. You are doing such a great thing making those services available to people!
What’s great about this is its independent, we meet at an Alano Club in town (a building where AA meetings take place) so there’s no provider to close. We just hit 2 years next month and one of the regulars is starting her own branch of it so there will be two a week. I’m so proud of her for getting to a place she can run one on her own!
Very nice! One of the people from my wife’s group tried to have a thing afterwards where’d they’d meet and hang out, but they only had 2 or so meets before nobody was coming by.
Glad to see you doubling in capacity! Best of luck to both of you! ❤️ It blows me away how society would just be fine letting everyone fall through the cracks otherwise.
Yeah it’s insane. One thing that I found amusing/horrific was I messaged close to 45 local therapists to work with. We have approximately 9 that come yearly and absolutely 0 men
I was a bit shocked when I read you had actual therapists coming! Getting a group together in itself is a great achievement, let alone getting therapists involved.
It’s sad that no men participate. Getting men mental help seems to be difficult, and I’m sure some would prefer having another man to talk to.
I volunteer doing wildlife rehab, and though almost everyone seems to say they love animals, that’s over 90% women led too. Come on guys, where you at?!
Yeah, that said many of the peers are men. I am technically a man myself and I know many of the men who come appreciate having a place to speak about these things in a safe spot.
I’m always a little surprised when I look into the population MMR distribution for games I play a lot. I’m often in like the top 5% or better in the kind of games I play a lot. But… I suck at them. I don’t feel like I know what I’m doing and when I look at streamers who are actually good at the game, it’s not like they’re just a more refined version of me, it’s like they’re playing a different game.
So I like to describe myself as being “the top of the trash heap.”
I think that is actually a thing/ the whole high- achieving / highly-skilled people feeling like they aren’t capable or don’t know nearly as much as they do. I’ve seen a lot of joking memes about it, the way that beginners are super self conscious and hesitant because they feel like they know nothing, average level people feel super confident because they have learned so much from the time they knew nothing and now feel empowered, and people who are highly skilled and experienced feel as though they don’t know anything simply because they have enough of a grasp of what it is that they are doing to fully understand the breadth of things they do not understand and cannot (yet) do well.
I think your statement pretty well puts you in the latter group. Congratulations on your high percentile! I wish you much happy gaming and satisfaction. :)
