How strong do you think your personality is?
 

You must have heard sometimes people describing themselves as having a strong personality and then amounting to no more than some facety charlatan when they are challenged by a real strong personality.

Which category do you fall under, those who are unremovably self-assured and confident in their dealings with people/situations or just an over-talkative no-show?

No poll, sorry.

over-talkative internet-posting no-show self-doubting charlatan.

After-breakfast replies only. Ta.

i'm neither confident nor over-talkative, i suppose that makes me a non-entity

you think after breakfast i'm going to come back & declare "i have a strong personality"? who says that shit anyway, and wouldn't they find it utterly embarrassing to make such silly declarations? my reply stands.

in certain circumstances i can have a strong personalityi guess. most of the time i am content to just ride it out.

ssssssmartttt.

see, no wonder greeks gave us philosophy, o most aristotelian of posters. really, i like your approach.

i think it could do with some clarity. is strong annoying? i guess its how people make use of a strong personailty. there are those who can be nice and while obviously have a strong personality they are intelligent and funny, or those who just walk into your psyche and kick over the furniture. innit.

Many people do that, unfortunately. After or before breakfast, yeah?

Why do you not just answer a fairLy simple question instead of constantly derailing threads to highlight your own boredom/discontent with what is posted?

ditto

You come across as a fairly confident person in the flesh, though. Or maybe you are just quiet.

porks, i love you you know, but you're overinterpreting here.

i replied. take it or leave it, but let's not argue about your assumptions about my reasons, because those two exist in a different universe and have little in common, and in this case it's you derailing your own thread. shall we move on?

brother!


i know. it's nice though.

I was observing, not overinterpreting anything.

If you really love me you are going to write ''I love sarramkrop'' in 5 different languages and using five different colours on this thread. Yeah?

hm, let me think....

NO

(insert smilie of choice)

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anyway, to your thread, frankly i don't think anyone with a "strong" personality (whatever that means, as nefeli has sharply shown) would need to boast of having one. in other words, the case you initially presented is common because it's the charlatan that will claim having superpowers.

most mortals are good at some things & sucky at others, and some are more aware of their strengths and shortcomings than others. and because aware is one thing i am, i can confidently say i'm most times more talk than show, but that's just because i really like talking, as my post count demonstrates. talking is what i do the most.

so the verdict stands on appeal.

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ps- i also think that people incapable of self-doubt are constitutionally and terminally stupid--and that's not any kind of strength.

Stupidity can be as immovable as a stone wall.

i just wing it, it takes me months of knowing someone to feel comfortable around them.

Ok, this is more the sort of reply that I expected from you.

I am not debating what a strong personality is by a million miles, that is a series of qualities that makes a person, in a way, more flexible when it comes to deal with tricky situations and people, sometimes successfully and sometimes less so. Your observation about self-doubt is pretty much spot on in this context.

The overall sign that someone is inclined towards strength is the ''I can do it, I can go through this'' motto, without pre-emptying the outcome of what is happening to them.


I am more interested in how people assest their own level of strength on a general basis, that's all. The example I gave on my first post is naturally an easy target because a truly confident person I would generally expect not to boast about it at all.

weak, but being shaped and progressing towards a stronger personality.
i'm still exploring identities and in the beginning of social experiences like independence.

well it's the same reply, you just got the long version. i.e., one where the trajectory to the end answer is fleshed out for all to see. which, fair enough, helps to avoid misunderstanding.

anyway here's something i thought about the rest of your post (which i didn't quote):

while it's interesting to know how people assess themselves in the courage-to-live scale (if i'm correct that's what you're driving at), i think that people don't often know their own strengths. because ultimately you're going to have to deal with whatever life throws at you-- death, disease, tickles, tragedy, concentration camps, whatever-- and then and only then you'll be able to say "ok, i can handle this" or you won't and you'll have a freakout and take refuge in booze pills whatever.

if you told me today i'd have to live with a colostomy bag hanging from my ass for the rest of my life i'd say "fuck no, i'd rather die", but if i *really* had to have it installed (fuck no, and knock on wood), who knows how i'd adapt & react to it. maybe i'd become a painter, maybe i'd off myself, maybe i'd laugh it off and play sports, maybe maybe maybe. anyway, just wanted to point out that self-perception, while interesting in and of itself, is frequently inaccurate, because time moves on, things change, and we're never the same person.

anyway, that was a digression. please carry on.

I am asking that to those who went through things, some of which are listed above, otherwise there would would be no answer of any kind, let alone self-assestment of one's potential strength.

I have no personality to speak of.

I think that requires talking to people.

I'm definitely a hell of a lot more social via typing than talking.

I would say yr personality is very strong, clone.

I can smell it from here.

And here I am, fresh from the bath. How embarrassing.

if yr trying to turn jico on, it's working.

4/10
Not that strong

Mostly I'm fairly confident. Unlike a lot of people, I realised years ago that nobody is as confident as they seem.

In terms of how strong my personality is, well, that's entirely up to my audience (/friends, if you will call them by that ghastly name).

I'm not very confident but I can be rather abrasive. I can be a total bitch. When I get angry at someone, at first my friends will laugh because they think I'm joking and then start to get scared. And I'm very stubborn and arguementative and bossy. I'd say pretty strong...

Not a strong personality, but fairly assertive in certain situations.

unremovably self-assured and confident in their dealings with people/situations

also, i think every time i've met you there's been booze and that makes me come out of shell a lot.

I'm pretty laid back and quiet if I don't know someone. But if I'm really good friends with someone, I suppose my personality comes off strong.

I've read this.

I am weak

I've had to deal with some full on things from an relatively early age like experiencing war in my teens and helping my chronically ill sibling from a young age, moving across the world a few times from when I was 5 to 17 and in turn being the outsider on numerous occasions and going from properity to virtual poverty, changing cultural environments and getting prejudiced against for different often opposing reasons in different environments. And although this my life has been such a strange mix of experiences it has made me quite a strong person, my personality is quite laid back as opposed to dominant, but if the shit hits the fan I am a person that can definitely be relied on

I have the personality of a dead fish.

I'm still having problems with this thread. I don't understand why an "over-talkative no-show" is the opposite of a "strong personality." Eh. I'll assume that you people have read enough of my posts to be able to piece together some idea of my personality. Or maybe my personality is too boring for you to pay attention to. If so, you aren't reading this so I might as well say "suck my balls, you pompous prick."

Life's too short to read what every anonymous fucker on the internet has to say

Oops, you responded. I am not anonymous anymore. You know something, even minimally, about me. I have affected your life. HA HA HA.