Tag: dailyprompt

What skill would you like to learn?

It would be awesome to have the skill to assess my own self-worth.

I apologize for the following, since it’s probably just the ramblings inside my head being typed out.

Since childhood I’ve always seen that I’m sub par on everything I put effort into.

Sometimes others have told me that I’m good and my insight is respected, but their behaviors are always other than their statements.

Few times I’ve encountered others who give me their perspective with reasons as to why i’m better than I think. But, when I Socratically attempt to find deeper meaning to their perspective, it’s merely a superficial explanation.

In what ways does hard work make you feel fulfilled?

Hard work does and doesn’t make me feel fulfilled.

If it’s mental work, I am more overwhelmed by the task of hard work for the sake of hard work without understanding the mission of the work being done. Busy work drives me bored, and even to the point where the boredom compounds with longer duration.

However if it’s physical work, the various iterations of how to execute the hard work give me the rush of flow state as I experiment with my execution. Sometimes having the focus on shortest duration, or high exertion intervals with rest periods, or even an endurance perspective. Adding knowledge on the final result also boosts the feeling of being fulfilled when I hit the target.

What’s the trait you value most about yourself?

Proprioception, the sense for recognizing one’s location of self in relation to self.

This awareness of my body helps me not only feel where I am, but also how I am reacting to outside forces.

For example, when I learned to solve a Rubik’s Cube (3×3) back in 1995 from a book I found at a thrift shop, knowing how much I moved my hands and arms to rotate the cube and it’s layers around made it easier to understand the three dimensional movement, resulting in understanding where layers move, how they move, and where they will move to.

Yes, that was limited to maybe 3 moves ahead at MAX capacity, but experience and familiarity improved that.

Now, it’s being used to feel the nuances of vehicle control as I teach people how to drive in California so that they can build the skills required to safely operate a motor vehicle.

The slight change in control input from a student behind the wheel (whether thats a change in steering, brake, gas, and even timing of vision to input) tells me so much about what the car is about to do as a result of that input.

However, this stuff is only good for me on land. I get crazy motion sickness and vertigo when I’m on a boat.