Am I an observant person wolf? Am I an observant person wolf?! Heh, does a wolf howl at the Moon?
Not to sound arrogant, but I am probably the most observant person that anyone here will ever come across on the Internet. Even in the real world, I am very observant. I spend 95% of my time listening and watching, absorbing all incoming information like a sponge, all due to the fact that I am extremely introverted, and have been so for ages.
Because of this, I tend to detect things that others do not, and oftentimes I do so minutes or hours in advance. Observing has become so second-nature to me that I've come to know more about others than they know about themselves; this fact scares even me. Tie this in with the fact that my brain will not let me forget anything, and my observation skills becomes even more frightening.
This ability is something I tend to keep to myself out of fear that someone will think I'm strange or whatever. It also takes the fun out of having "super observation skills" if everyone knows that their every move or word is being monitored. People typically began to tense up or get nervous around you, or try doubly harder to mask their every action, thus making it harder for you to profile them. Little do they know, however, that this kind of thing is something which many people lack control of. If anything, it becomes a passive ability over time and it is devoid of an off-switch. I can't even begin to name the number of things I've learned about my coworkers, without them so much as batting an eye.
Now, who wants me to recite their posting habits/quirks from the time they joined until present?