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Aspects of your personality that have a double edge. (pg. 3)
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| Silky Johnson |
My brutal, almost tactless, honesty. I've worked on that a lot though, so it's not anywhere near the double edge for me that it used to be.
I've always been a pretty introspective/reflective person and for the most part I apply the same level of honesty with myself, so I've always been good at identifying and dealing with negative aspects of my personality.
The reflective practice I do in nursing has helped me to be even more objective about it and really be able to accept criticism/negative feedback from my peers. That's more on the professional tip...but still, it helps keep my ego in check. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
seriously, how can u say I know jack about cars? You have no clue what I have done. I screw with more peoples heads than u will ever know. I grew up in exotic car shops my Father owns. I worked for 10 years at auto body and mechanical shops...actually 4 different shops since I was 15, and put myself through college busting my ass covered in bondo dust, grease and paint. I have done more with cars than u can imagine. I raced and built Yamaha karts, Shifter Karts when I was 12, re-built the engines for them, built small and big block Fords from empty blocks to complete long blocks, welded roll cages and tubs for drag cars, installed suspensions, brakes, drag raced an 89 steeda Mustang for 3 years while in school, with nitrous systems and went supercharged for a while. I laughed when u went searching for glass headlight assemblies for a late model Mustang, which demonstrated your knowledge but I'm not going to sit here and gloat anymore about my experience. *steps off soap box* :D |
Well then don't go into a car thread, make a comment, someone tells you to backup your knowledge and tell them they know all. ;) It makes people respect you less for your knowledge, or lack thereof when you act like a cocky jackass and then leave without proving what you know. I am one that calls it the way I see it, and that's the way everyone in that thread, saw your actions.
Oh another flaw of mine, I can be "too" blunt and honest at times. have I gotten myself in hot water for this. |
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| Meat187 |
Negative: I don't love talking about myself.
Positive: I don't bore other people with it.
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
My brutal, almost tactless, honesty. I've worked on that a lot though, so it's not anywhere near the double edge for me that it used to be.
I've always been a pretty introspective/reflective person and for the most part I apply the same level of honesty with myself, so I've always been good at identifying and dealing with negative aspects of my personality.
The reflective practice I do in nursing has helped me to be even more objective about it and really be able to accept criticism/negative feedback from my peers. That's more on the professional tip...but still, it helps keep my ego in check. |
This is my exact way of dealing with things myself. Serious self-introspective analysis of each and every situation that could have had a different, or better outcome. |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Well then don't go into a car thread, make a comment, someone tells you to backup your knowledge and tell them they know all. ;) It makes people respect you less for your knowledge, or lack thereof when you act like a cocky jackass and then leave without proving what you know. I am one that calls it the way I see it, and that's the way everyone in that thread, saw your actions.
Oh another flaw of mine, I can be "too" blunt and honest at times. have I gotten myself in hot water for this. |
lol na man its the interweb its all good. I do come off cocky a lot irl and thats my personality trait I need to work on :D I'm on a bunch of car sites, mainly Mustang ones, and since this isn't a car site I just left it at that. We all bash each other on here...goes back and forth, so no worries. Cars are just a hobby for me now since I got out of that work when I graduated...though I do miss doing custom paintwork. Last car I did was a 69 Camaro and it was owned by this 16 year old who just got access to a trust fund. He ended up dropping 25k on the paintwork alone, and that car came out so freaking nice! |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
lol na man its the interweb its all good. I do come off cocky a lot irl and thats my personality trait I need to work on :D I'm on a bunch of car sites, mainly Mustang ones, and since this isn't a car site I just left it at that. We all bash each other on here...goes back and forth, so no worries. Cars are just a hobby for me now since I got out of that work when I graduated...though I do miss doing custom paintwork. Last car I did was a 69 Camaro and it was owned by this 16 year old who just got access to a trust fund. He ended up dropping 25k on the paintwork alone, and that car came out so freaking nice! |
Touche. Nice car!
Ok back on topic lol |
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| lücid |
| quote: | Originally posted by jdat
very much with you on most counts.
This past weekend there was some church weekend thingy my parents wanted me to go to. Most of the people there were pissing me off asking me ignorant questions just trying to make conversion and I just hate that.
Tonight my father was asking me about the weekend and saying I appeared distant. I went on explaining that I can't stand doubt the whole chatty thing. If there isn't something of interest there you can right bugger off.
Friends are an investement in time and I don't want to waste my time on people who are worthless to me. Feel free to read into this as pseudo-seflish behavior, but if not being alone at times means being with people that you have zero interest in I prefer the former. |
yeah. i have little tolerance for small talk and shallow facades. i hate when i'm forced into a situation where i have to partake in such behavior, and i always go along with it because i don't want to seem completely uninterested or bitchy... but honestly, i think a lot of people just love the sound of their voice and they just can't help it. me on the other hand, i love comfortable silences.
it's also a shame that being selfish is almost always considered a negative personality trait. obviously there's a big difference between being selfish in order to achieve happiness and being selfish because you're just a self-centered prick. i have no problem admitting that i can be very selfish sometimes, because it allows me to live my life the way i want to. i can't be happy if i'm living life by someone else's standards. |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
yeah. i have little tolerance for small talk and shallow facades. i hate when i'm forced into a situation where i have to partake in such behavior, and i always go along with it because i don't want to seem completely uninterested or bitchy... but honestly, i think a lot of people just love the sound of their voice and they just can't help it. me on the other hand, i love comfortable silences.
it's also a shame that being selfish is almost always considered a negative personality trait. obviously there's a big difference between being selfish in order to achieve happiness and being selfish because you're just a self-centered prick. i have no problem admitting that i can be very selfish sometimes, because it allows me to live my life the way i want to. i can't be happy if i'm living life by someone else's standards. |
well said! |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
yeah. i have little tolerance for small talk and shallow facades. i hate when i'm forced into a situation where i have to partake in such behavior, and i always go along with it because i don't want to seem completely uninterested or bitchy... but honestly, i think a lot of people just love the sound of their voice and they just can't help it. me on the other hand, i love comfortable silences.
it's also a shame that being selfish is almost always considered a negative personality trait. obviously there's a big difference between being selfish in order to achieve happiness and being selfish because you're just a self-centered prick. i have no problem admitting that i can be very selfish sometimes, because it allows me to live my life the way i want to. i can't be happy if i'm living life by someone else's standards. |
Amen, sister.
P.S. Cunt! |
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| lücid |
also, even though i don't necessarily believe in horoscopes all that new-agey , i think it would be interesting to compare some of the traits you all mentioned to the associated traits that are normally seen in our respective astrological signs. personally, i know i display a lot of the associatied traits for Scorpio... and it's almost scary how true some of them are for me.
i mean, look at Jenny... she's a Scorpio too and she's DEFINITELY a back-stabbing whore. :gsmile: |
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| Silky Johnson |
| LOL! Backstabbing no...but vindictive/vengeful, yes. Not all the time, for the most part I control that behavior, but if someone REALLY s me off...look out. It honestly takes a lot for me to turn on someone, but once I have, that's it forever. |
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