December 6th, 2022 – 1,532

~ Sam Shuttleworth

“Share five things you’re good at” huh WordPress? OK, let’s see. I’m gonna give an honourable mention to “being stubborn about writing every day”, which would be in the #1 spot but that feels cheap given this is the 1K blog.

  1. 1) Playing board and card games against myself. This one is a weird skill, but I am able to just block out any memory of hidden information when I play games. It’s one reason I like owning Modern decks, because I can just play them against each other. The one game I struggle with this in ironically is the one most people can do if they have this skill: chess. But then I am bad at chess so…
  2. 2) Making over the top spreadsheets for the tiniest things. Whether it’s a video game, a routine, or just me doing a thought experiment and wanting to aggregate some data, I love my spreadsheets. Irony point two, I am struggling to learn SQL, and it kills me. I want to learn SQL so I can go even harder, but alas that’s gonna be a slow burn.
  3. 3) Wordle. Not the best by any means but I am just shy of a 300 unbroken record with a sub-4 average on hard mode.
  4. 4) Memorising long strings. Now if I don’t keep the practice up, I tend to lose the information, but whether it’s digits of pi, American Presidents, or hyper specific monetary figures that I can then quote in exams, I am ridiculously good at holding onto that information.
  5. 5) Being an agony aunt. I have this weird super power: I can be an empathetic ear and listen to trauma and pain and intense angst flow, and even have it be about me, and I can do that without taking psychic damage. It’s been incredibly useful because it means if I have a friend in need, even if I am not doing great I can still hemp em out.

I wish I could say “6) Blogging early” but, well it’s quarter to midnight. But I am very tired, and I do need to be nice to myself. It’ll work out.

Published by Sam Shuttleworth

I’m Sam, and I live to write. I spent most of the first 8 years of my adulthood trying to balance writing with a large amount of crap in my personal life, until towards the end of 2018 I threw everything out and started afresh with just my writing. I built the new me around one goal: I have to write at least 1,000 words a day. I called this goal 1K, and it changed my life. So long as I write a thousand words a day, the day is a success, and atop that I've managed over time to build the life I wanted all those years. My greatest flaws as a writer is I still use too many adjectives, adverbs, connectives as openers, accidental passive voice and I don't force my work down people's throats enough on pain of extreme and unusual torture. My greatest strength is I know my greatest flaws and I'm working on them.