Useless skills

If playing Free Cell, or whatever, allows you to relax and therefore be better at being human, then it is not a useless skill.

I am pretty good at trivia I think. I never realised I had such a talent for storing general knowledge trivia away in my brain until I kept getting asked repeatedly "how do you know this?" My answer was always "I don't know. I just do!" I guess I always thought to others "How could you not know it as it is common knowledge" but maybe I just retain useless pieces of information more than most people. I am particularly good when it comes to rock music trivia, motorcycle racing trivia and AFL football trivia apparently!

Hmmm I use all sorts of games to exercise my mind in many ways, particularly memory. In fact in the last year I have found some of my memory improving but it is still extremely erratic. I read that it is good for older people to play games like this as it keeps their brains working and where there are problems they can make new pathways. I do not think free cell is a useless skill as it exercises the mind and that is always good. But then I do not believe that any skill is useless.

LOL...useless skills and knowledge are my middle name I think. I am a very good video game player and I have a long attention span for it I am quite determined. I also know that the reason why skunks smell so bad to us is their scent is the only scent that triggers all of our scent glands...LOL...that is just an example of the library of useless knowledge that I have.

I don't think any of the skills you've mentioned there is anything useless. Each action you do is not useless at all unless if you developed them but you didn't use them. If you used them at the same time enjoyed using them, then those skills have not been developed in vain. Let me tell you one of the things I've developed that is a load of junk: going to school--only to be taught rubbish that's why in the end, I still don't know how the society works and I still don't know how to make myself money with all the things I've learned there. The skill to make myself money has just came to me--not in school but in an infamouse book--and I'm in the process of learning to master it. Yeah, I know numbers but I'm still a financial idiot. I can handle academic idiocy--which I'm not--BUT NOT financial idiocy because in the end I'll be in need of finances to support those people who are important to me and to buy those things that I want and need. Yeah, I know how to program and fix and destroy computers. I know how to research and make thesis but it's all a load of crap because in the end I won't have any use of them--unless if I want to fix my #2 asset which is my laptop. I cannot use those things taught to me in real life when all I'll do is just make myself money using my #1 asset which is my brain... Now I'm ranting. I'm gonna stop now, Have a nice day and Happy MyLotting!

I don't personally think any skill you have would be considered useless. While being a Free Cell champ might seem useless, it keeps your brain active and thinking. This is essential as we get older especially, to help keep your brain young, even if your body is not. If I had to pick one thing that I thought was a useless skill I guess it would have to be playing games as well.

i have no useless skills, or useful one's either. count yourself lucky man. it's far better for you than it is for the likes of me. i once thought i was pretty good at poker. it turns out i wasn't.