What’s something that felt like your "Secret Advantage" at first, but you ended up sharing with others?

My brain does not work like that. I’m way too generous.

I kept this “hack” secret but now share this with my friends and I have no idea how popular this is cause I haven’t seen anyone talk about this, but if you’re scrolling on TikTok or ig reels and you get an ad countdown open the comment section and it automatically stops the countdown and you can watch the ending of the video in the comments.

Growing up and being good with computers in the 2000s was a superpower. People thought you were a wizard. Now it seems way more common.

Investing. I went from managing my own portfolio successfully to also managing the portfolios of friends and family for nothing but addition stress and a barrage of questions constantly. All because I was too open about my ability to understand complexities in financial markets. Keep your skills to yourself unless someone is willing to give you something in return for your skills.

i add sour cream to my cornbread to make it more moist, then mix it into soupier chili to create a better overall texture for the chili bowl. i had won chili cookoffs at one of my school orgs, and ended up sharing the recipe afterwards because i figured recipes are meant to be shared

I've learned overtime helping coworkers isn't with it. I used to teach them Excel or other software skills but instead of looking helpful you're just making people better at your own cost and time

You can solve a lot of multiple choice questions without even looking at the question. (For this, I’m going to assume 4 potential answers to simplify the explanations) There are 3 ways to construct the answers for a multiple choice question: 1. Via errors This is the hardest to work with because it’s when you go through the solution for the problem and for each answer, you make 1 common error. This leads to 4 different answers which, depending on how well you figure out the solution, test takers could end up with. The answers for these questions typically all appear unique, so all you can really do is hope you know how to solve the question the right way. 2. Random This way is also difficult to parse information from as the way these questions are made is by getting the right answer then randomly selecting other answers. The only way this differs from the error method is in how you’re likely to not stumble upon an incorrect answer from going through the work. However, there is a piece of information which is left which can be extracted. When coming up with random answers, they are typically more simplistic. This method is usually done by teachers and professors who don’t care or know much about test making, so they’re just doing whatever to get it ready (note that this lack of care can take many forms, even lack of time to spend on designing the test, so don’t always hold it against them). To a trained eye, the random answers can become noticeably such, even if only half of the answers are ruled out, then your chances of guessing the correct answer go up a significant amount. 3. Altered true solution This is the easiest to solve, although it does have multiple forms, so you should still exercise caution. With this method, the test designer starts with the correct answer then alters one aspect of it, making it incorrect. They then repeat this process changing something new each time. In the end, you have 1 correct answers and 3 near-correct answers. To solve this, simply look at what information multiple answers have in common. If one answers shares every detail with one or two others, then it was likely the original answer. Here’s where things get tricky. Instead, the test designer could do the above ass gated, but for the 4th answer, they take what was changed in the second and third answers and have both errors as the 4th answer. This creates a square relationship between the answers, a loop that has to starting point. To solve these, you have to do some work, but by using information from the question, you can usually rule out incorrect answers so long as you know what you’re doing. The last way this process could be messed with is if they make the original answer one of the branches instead of the root answer. To make this, you take the correct answer, alter something for the second answer, then take the second answer and alter it in two different ways to make the remaining answers. This comes with bad news and good news. Bad news is that there’s no way of seeing this apart from the original method without parsing through the question. Good news is that this level of test design is something most instructors never even consider, so it’s very rare to actually encounter. Those are all the methods that can be applied to multiple choice questions, but there’s one more trick which can be applied. Teachers and professors tend to keep to the same method of designing tests. Therefore, although you can only slightly apply this to the first test with each instructor, when looking at later questions, you can keep track of the kinds of ways the instructor has gone about it previously, giving you effectively a seed for their way of designing tests. Knowing that seed can help you to figure out what kind of method the instructor will use, although there are those who like to shake things up, so don’t rely on it. It’s best not to rely on any of this, really. You should always attempt to figure out the answer the normal way as that’s the best way to get the correct answers. However, knowing these tricks can help you to identify or rule out wrong answers most of the time. Good luck :)

Using browser automation for repetitive online tasks. I spent a weekend learning how to string together scripts that click, type, and navigate pages for me. I felt like I cracked the matrix doing 3 hours of boring data entry in 10 minutes. Kept it a secret for a month, but eventually shared the setups with my colleagues because watching them do it manually was physically painful.

i'd say my gamer cheat codes felt like a secret advantage back in the day. once i started sharing them, it just made the game more fun for everyone, and honestly, we all leveled up together.

Using ChatGPT to write professional emails. I used to spend 20 minutes crafting one email trying to sound polite but firm. Now I just type “tell this guy no but make it nice” and it’s done in 10 seconds. Told my whole team and now nobody writes their own emails anymore.

There are GPT (get-paid-to) sites like [CashInStyle](https://cashinstyle.com/?ref=67a041e4pdaj7bx4) that literally pay you to play mobile games. They're generally base builder type games, but you can still make a decent amount from it. There's also c***** offers where the advertisers literally pay you to deposit on their site.

Me and a friend started selling online at some point I changed how I was doing things and started using something called henify, and I began getting sales while he wasn’t. Didn’t say anything at first, then showed him later