Psychology in Seattle.

So, Burdo, some people have some short questions for us

and I thought we would answer in a long form

narcissistic way like we usually do.

Let's do it.

This is the Psychology and Seattle podcast.

I'm your host, Dr Kirkconda.

I'm a therapist, professor and I frequently suffer from

allergies which causes me to walk around with these handkerchiefs where I blow

my nose all the time my name is is Umberto Castagnan and I just started a new business selling handkerchiefs.

And I love talking about short questions that users, especially patrons ask us. So famous patron Linden asks

what is a skill you thought you were good at that you realized you suck at? So this one's going to be funny because I don't technically

suck at it but by relative degrees. So and this might surprise you, video games.

Okay, so when I was a kid, I thought I was good at video games.

Like what?

Like in Colombia, I had this little game called Canyon Climber for the colored computer and you just had to jump these arrows and then jump these other arrows and then jump these little mountains and I was like, oh my God, I can get to the to the so the because it gets faster every level and I was like I can get so fast and I would really get into zone I'm like

to do you know like that kind of thing and I just thought I'm so good at this and then you know then I

move it up to the states and I remember the first time I found out I sucked at

video games is I'm over at my friend Paul's house and he's showing me his

Nintendo and I've never seen a

Nintendo. He's like oh yeah and so he pulls out this game called Contra you

you remember Contra right? Yeah okay so he puts Contra in and he's like

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