Interesting Question about yourself.

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Just saw this on social media: Interesting question for sure.

Today somebody asked an interesting question: "If you were in a room with 100 random people, what do you think you could do better than any of them?"

I had to think about it for a bit. Has to be measurable.

My final answer, now: I can identify more 80s/90s TV shows by their theme song alone than almost anybody.

It's a completely useless skill. But that's probably something I can do better than 100 other random people. Even if they were in my age range.

What's yours?
 

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I could ignore more people than anyone else and just sit happily watching Netflix on my phone. :D

Or probably some lame 007 knowledge trivia contest.
 

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Do convincing impressions of myself. ;)

I think it'd be a bit egotistical to think you're likely to be better than 100 people at anything unless it's a very niche skill like, say, heart surgery.

I'm one of those people that can get to a reasonable level of competence in a lot of different things but never feel like an expert in any subject matter at all.
 

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I could over-explain and provide a visual demonstration about the benefits/downsides of left vs right handed masturbation better than anyone there.

Or explain the perfect crime,

"What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany's at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier. It's priceless. As I'm taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It's her father's business. She's Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico but I go to Canada. I don't trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard. I have a son and he's the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting: I tell Tiffany to meet me in Paris, by the Trocadero. She's been waiting for me all these years; she's never taken another lover. I don't care, I don't show up. I go to Berlin. That's where I stashed the chandelier."
 

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Damn, that is a good question!

I don't really have any defining attributes... I probably know more about Twin Peaks then any living human being which I guess is something.... right?
 

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Depends on the demographic you're selecting "random" from. If it's world wide, then "speak English" would be a fair bet. Hell, if it were drawn solely from the UK I think "speak English" would still be a fair bet. ;)

But anyway, if for the sake of argument the one-hundred are drawn from UK adults, I think you'd have a reasonable chance of being right with any specialist skill. I could pick database analysis, design and optimization and I think the odds would be in my favour with such a demographic. It doesn't mean you think you're the best at that skill, it means you think your level of skill is less than one in a hundred across everybody including those who never went into that field. Which for most technical specialists, it will be.

If you want very high values of confidence though, you end up picking things that are silly in their specificity such as "my favourite foods".

Interestingly, people who are naturally psychologically prepared to kill are around two in a hundred so if you reckon you could kill someone without too much hesitation and follow-up trauma, then you could name that as your "better than anyone else" and have a fifty-fifty chance of being right.
 
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