Things you didn't know you can be bad at

I wonder how many things we're all going around doing badly because the idea of not knowing how to do them well seems too ridiculous to admit to.

...You've probably never been taught to have a conversation. I've had exactly one class on it and it was in the last six months. I know damn well that many people have not self-taught this well... In general there's this entire class of implicit skills that we mostly don't think of as skills, that we're entirely self-taught on, and that we practice sufficiently non-demonstratively that we can't easily watch what other people do. The result is a very personal skill idiolect.

  1. ​Idiolect​