So What Are You REALLY Good At?

So what are you really good at?

It's one of those questions that often comes up when you attend "work purpose" workshops... like I did, back in a past life.

Today — as it was back then — that's one of those questions that I usually end up with a bunch of answers that reflects the truth, but it's not necessarily a truth that's good for much of anything.

One of the things I'm really good at is "finding things."

For example, earlier today Mrs. Denmarkguy came to me because she couldn't find a particular canning pot that she needed to make her dandelion jelly (yes, that's actually a thing!) that she's trying to do at the moment.

She came to me and asked "have you seen the small canning pot?"

I stood there for a bit and thought about it and finally said "well, yes I've seen it but I don't exactly remember where it is," because I actually didn't.

So then I stood there for another few minutes and just thought about it; then I went to the garage where the other canning pots and supplies are stored and vaguely remembered that that was where I'd seen it before and then I realized that the reason it wasn't visible was that it was actually stored inside one of the larger canning pots.

And yes, that's where it was.

Which gets me to the point of why so many people can't find things they are looking for something... because those things are "supposed to be" out in open sight where they can be seen, but actually they are camouflaged.

It's like doing a refrigerator search when you open the doors and look inside — and look and look — for the stuff you wanted for your sandwiches but because it's not on the front row and easily visible to you, you determine that it's no longer there when — in fact — it's simply hiding behind a couple of cartons of milk in a location where there's never anything but milk.

Maybe that's why I'm good at finding things: I don't care what's supposedly obvious and what's not, and I don't care what "the rules" — to the extent there are some — might be.

I just find shit.

One of the depressing things about this particular "talent" is that I have never been able to parlay it into making a living of any sort... because it doesn't really have commercial value to people. I mean, you're not going to pay someone to find your keys, even if you have to go without them for a week.

Somebody once said "well, you should become a detective because you would be really excellent at finding criminals and stuff!"

My response to them was "no, I should NOT become a detective because I'm not any good at understanding PEOPLE, I'm just good at finding THINGS, and people are not things; people have minds of their own and independent thought and they will go wherever they want to."

I always sucked at hide-and-seek, surprisingly enough!

However, something like finding a smaller canning pot hidden inside a larger canning pot is easy because it is a stationary object and it's not going to suddenly get up and move to another part of the room because it knows I'm looking for it.

But people don't really need people who go around finding things do they?

When I was a kid, I was also really good at finding things, particularly in nature. I just seemed to "understand" where to find things like mushrooms and wild berries... even in places where the adults insisted there weren't going to be any.

Thing is, I actually enjoy finding things. I enjoy the process of reasoning through why something would be in a particular location.

One of things I really suck at, though... is finding time!

OK, so that was just a lame joke...

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