pretend you're less good at something than you are c/d

have you ever done it? in order to not appear to be a show off? or for whatever other reason?

is it better/worse than people claiming to be better than they are at things?

where's the line between modesty and being insincere/dishonest/hustling?

Have you been letting girls win at pool, ken?

she said she was the worst player under the sun.

i went easy on her so she always won
(it was bowling)

Is this a thread about hustling?

not necessarily/specifically, matt.

hustling has a specific purpose of gaining money out of someone by later winning at said game?

like if you go bowling with work, or whatever, if everyone's evidently crap, but then you go ahead a bowl a 200 game would it be a bit of kill-joy for everyone else?

or if you play scrabble and everyone is playing nice scrabble and nobody knows the 2 letter word list... would you resort to fanny dangling?

would you hold back your "za" that can score you 62 points?

I always tend to do this, but basically because I sincerely think I am crap at whatever I do. My therapist called me a perfectionist which I didn't understand at first. but then thinking about it, I guess I am. Whenever I do something I always see the mistakes, not the things that are good. I am never really happy with things I have done. I am working at this because it's annoying for me and also others.

I undermine my talents all the time. I'm convinced that I'm not a very good fiction writer although my paper grades in writing courses tell me otherwise.

i don't know whether to believe you or not. that entire post above could be fiction