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rockfan's avatar

What are some skills or subjects you’re largely ignorant about?

Asked by rockfan (14632points) April 16th, 2019 from iPhone

It can be as broad as “art” or as narrow as “calligraphy”.

Out of all your choices, what’s one that sticks out to you that you’d like to learn?

Here’s my list:

Chess
Settlers of Catan
Military time
Roman numerals
Printmaking
Architecture
Horticulture
Yoga

Out of all these, I’d definitely like to to learn more about strategic board games, and join a weekly board gaming group.

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18 Answers

KNOWITALL's avatar

Ancient religions
Auto Mechanics
Construction
Woodworking
Deep sea fishing
Golf
Archeology

The one I’d be most interested in is ancient religions and worship.

jca2's avatar

There are many things I don’t know much about. Probably too many to list.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Russian language

Icelandic language

Quantum Physics

Jaxk's avatar

I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Demosthenes's avatar

I don’t know anything about:

Auto mechanics
Most sports
Programming/coding
Sewing/knitting
Warfare
Firearms

I wouldn’t mind knowing coding because it’s a lucrative skill and it seems like 3-years-old know how to code these days and I wouldn’t even know where to begin.

Patty_Melt's avatar

https://youtu.be/R4GLAKEjU4w
My list, except substitute Spanish for French.

Also
Home repairs
Computer functions
Publishing

I have two that stand out as what I really want to know more about. I need to understand more about getting published and what some of the pitfalls are.
I would also like to know more regarding home repairs. I can do simple things like install a dimmer switch, and painting. I would like to know more about plumbing and heating.

SQUEEKY2's avatar

Most card games.
There is others but can’t think of any right now.

LostInParadise's avatar

@rockfan , You could learn all there is to know about Roman numerals in about 10 minutes

There is so much that I don’t know.
Some things that I wish I knew more about:

history
art
music
poetry
engineering
biology
auto mechanics
needlework
woodworking
cooking
video games
relativity and quantum mechanics

Of these, I would be most interested in learning more about music.

josie's avatar

oil painting (which I think would be cool)
accounting
improving my golf score

ragingloli's avatar

Playing musical instruments other than the flute.

Kardamom's avatar

These are things I am interested in, and have some knowledge about, but have not really done to any useful degree:

Quilting
Sewing
The Japanese Tea Ceremony
Making ceramics
Baking cakes
Crocheting
Vegetable gardening
Making homemade sauerkraut
Playing bagpipes

Out of these, learning to play the bagpipes, and making ceramics are running neck and neck.

These are popular things that I have almost no knowledge of, save for math, that I have zero interest in learning more about, because they are things that I don’t like:

Math
Football
Baseball
Basketball
Playing video games
Watching superhero/comic book based movies
Reading 50 Shades of Gray
Drinking whisky
Listening to rap music

Out of these, I wish that math came naturally to me, but it has been an unpleasant, humiliating struggle all of my life.

KNOWITALL's avatar

@Kardamom Send me the recipe for the sauerkraut if you perfect it please.

Kardamom's avatar

@KNOWITALL One of my friends just bought a fermenting kit from Amazon. She is trying it out as we speak. I think I would like to get one of those kits.

rockfan's avatar

@Kardamom How can you dislike something if you have no knowledge of it?

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

Parallel parking. Calculus. C++, bridge.

Kardamom's avatar

@rockfan, I have heard of many things, and even witnessed the doing of those things by other people, such as playing baseball, but I am completely devoid of any knowledge about how the game works, or the rules. It simply doesn’t look appealing to me, but I still don’t know anything about it, other than they throw a ball, and use a bat.

One can have fleeting knowledge about something, or know that it exists, and not be interested in knowing anything else about it.

It’s the same as me have fleeting knowledge about quilting, but having no idea how to quilt, but the fleeting knowledge makes me interested.

Isn’t that what you wanted to know? If we didn’t have ANY knowledge that some particular thing existed, then we couldn’t answer your question.

Patty_Melt's avatar

@Kardamom SAUCY today. ; -)

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