Familiarity with problems makes them easier. Perhaps hubby can park the car because he has always done it because he's always had to. Perhaps you don't weigh when cooking because you've always done the bulk of the cooking. Practise makes perfect.
I used to make macaroni cheese sauce in the microwave as a kid for lunch on holidays. I never measured only guessed. Got it terribly wrong so many times. From eating virtually completely cornflour to virtually hot milk. Now I do it for our son and don't measure but get it right every time. I've no super power just practise.
Perhaps a period of practise reversing into spaces on an empty carpark might help you park your car better. Learning better control of your car is more important than not using scales when cooking imho. It's just a skill to learn. If you really can't learn it then, a bit harsh, but perhaps you should not be driving?
There used to be a woman who couldn't park up her road because it was a dead end road with a hill and parked cars either side. I must admit I'm glad i b didn't live there. But she simply couldn't park there. Until she had to and then you never saw her car in neighbouring streets. The reason for her learning was an encounter with a cantankerous old man who ended work early due to industrial accident that left him disabled enough to walk far to his motorbility car. A few words with him after parking outside his house she learnt to drive. Right incentive she learnt. BTW nobody condoned his approach but they all were happy with the result as parking was a problem.
Just an idea to help. I'm all for skills improvement especially around driving. Being a cyclist that is important!
@Lizzie27, I think you might find that long length also means in the body so if you shorten the legs you'll end up wearing trousers with the crotch by your knees. Could be a new trend.
Northern Jo,a bit harsh,if everyone who was no good at one thing driving,there would only be my hubby on the road. I was never taught to parallel park,he doesn't drive and park for me,he has his own,(tiny city car) would consider I'm pretty good,passed the advanced with a police examiner and the high performance test. I don't like driving,it's necessary I live in a village,last time I got on a bus had to get off because of travel sickness. I have been in 3 entrapments,none of them my fault, knocked off the road by a drunk hit and run,no license insurance. I have 2 disabled sons I have to look after. After the accidents I had to force myself back in to a car,even as a passenger.
I can reverse into parking spaces beautifully used to have a Renault Savannah no power steering,am always bang in side white lines equal both sides. I can't see the end of the bonnet on any vehicle,am not going to guess how far it is from other vehicles
I find it hard finding evidence of free-will. All I see is cause and effect.
If free will existed, why on earth would anyone be sad when they could be happy?
Why would anyone be mad, depressed, bi-polar? Does a synesthete have any control over their condition? What about someone who has a phobia or a dysmorphic disorder? Why do I cry when I don't want to? Why am I angry when I want to be happy? Or is free will not really free ... or is it limited to deciding what socks I wear? Where are my lines for free will?
Personally (and maybe I'm alone here), even after I've planned roughly what I'm going to say in a given situation, I don't control the words coming out of my mouth. And wouldn't I be effectively mentally paralysed if I had free will? As again, with me (and maybe I'm peculiar here), I don't control the thoughts coming into my mind. They appear. So to have free will, I would have to 'will' a thought - but then I would have to will the thought I just had to have that thought - and so on as each though must have a preceding thought to have that thought. I could never get out of the loop of having infinite thoughts just to have one thought. Like '...if G_d exists who made G_d...' becomes and infinite loop if a G_d made G_d - ditto for the Big Bang - what created the thing before the big bang. What was the thought that created the thought.
To me life appears to be very, very strange. We have the illusion of free will, but I can't see the evidence for it. I see a story being played out. Much like a computer game being played on an games console - the players can only do whatever they have been allowed to do in the game story. It is programmed - even though when playing, it doesn't appear to be - you naturally accept the limitations of what the game allows you to do . The game doesn't have time either - its 'universe' springs into being each time the game is played - it's history is always there, but it never existed.
And you don't appear to be able to abandon your responsibilities - they are what the story dictates.
Back to people being good at certain things. Fine. Natural aptitudes. I think I see that.
....someone will now read this and it will enter their brain and be a cause to their effect...
Of course it's life events that make you feel sad depressed whatever, unless you have either a neurological or chemical imbalance. The free will,I have always ",suffered" from female intuition,I am going somewhere,doing something,it kicks in, tells me to go a different way,do s different thing. Last time I ignored it,went usual very rural journey to daughter's,top of hill, stopped by a police officer,road flooded at the bottom,and cars stuck,did a 500 point turn in the road,very narrow,big rocks up each side. Yes,I can,and no I didn't hit a rock or anything else
Cant always be a case of practice. When hubby was 15 his first job,he was driving limos in and out of workshops on garages. When I was about 9 I used to go to the fair on the village green, fell in love with these beautifully dressed baby dolls,you had to roll wooden balls into certain holes to win one. I saved my pocket money,got the (naked doll) knitted the outfit,a lot without a knitting pattern
Interestingly debate on here. As a woman I have the rubbish "spacial awareness thing" my hubby pops my Estate into a space I wouldn't even attempt for a bicycle! Terrifies me,he has a weird affinity with motor vehicles (vehicle tech for nearly 40 years) yet he can't understand why I don't weigh Everything when cooking. Rubbish at math,but I can "see the amount of flour I need proved it the other day (,no not the flour!), scooped it out AND weighed it. See what you mean about the adverts. I got "cancelled" yesterday by a friend of almost 40 years!!! Leave you pondering on that
I can do that with flour, sugar etc as well. I reckon it's because we didn't have kitchen scales when I was growing up. My Mum measured by eye/feel, so that's how I learned. I'm good at maths and many logic/3d spatial things (eg whizz at altering sewing patterns to fit my decidedly non-standard shape, which basically involves seeing how a load of flat shapes will go together to make a 3d shape) and I'm another engineer by trade (but systems & safety, not mechanical/civil). But weirdly I am rubbish at reverse parking. Love the rear camera on my current car!!
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
@steveTu, if you find it difficult now try reading The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene. The subtitle is Superstrings, hidden dimensions and the quest for the ultimate theory. I have been grappling with it recently, it's one of those books like Hawkins brief history of Time, it a hard read but fascinating, about the quest to resolve the problems with Einstein's theories of the large (relativity), with quantum theory.
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I used to make macaroni cheese sauce in the microwave as a kid for lunch on holidays. I never measured only guessed. Got it terribly wrong so many times. From eating virtually completely cornflour to virtually hot milk. Now I do it for our son and don't measure but get it right every time. I've no super power just practise.
Perhaps a period of practise reversing into spaces on an empty carpark might help you park your car better. Learning better control of your car is more important than not using scales when cooking imho. It's just a skill to learn. If you really can't learn it then, a bit harsh, but perhaps you should not be driving?
There used to be a woman who couldn't park up her road because it was a dead end road with a hill and parked cars either side. I must admit I'm glad i b didn't live there. But she simply couldn't park there. Until she had to and then you never saw her car in neighbouring streets. The reason for her learning was an encounter with a cantankerous old man who ended work early due to industrial accident that left him disabled enough to walk far to his motorbility car. A few words with him after parking outside his house she learnt to drive. Right incentive she learnt. BTW nobody condoned his approach but they all were happy with the result as parking was a problem.
Just an idea to help. I'm all for skills improvement especially around driving. Being a cyclist that is important!
I can do that with flour, sugar etc as well. I reckon it's because we didn't have kitchen scales when I was growing up. My Mum measured by eye/feel, so that's how I learned. I'm good at maths and many logic/3d spatial things (eg whizz at altering sewing patterns to fit my decidedly non-standard shape, which basically involves seeing how a load of flat shapes will go together to make a 3d shape) and I'm another engineer by trade (but systems & safety, not mechanical/civil). But weirdly I am rubbish at reverse parking. Love the rear camera on my current car!!