Optiwart?

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Are you an optimist or a pessimist?

  • 1 (Total pessimist)

    Votes: 2 6.7%

  • 2

    Votes: 1 3.3%

  • 3

    Votes: 3 10.0%

  • 4

    Votes: 1 3.3%

  • 5

    Votes: 7 23.3%

  • 6

    Votes: 3 10.0%

  • 7

    Votes: 8 26.7%

  • 8

    Votes: 2 6.7%

  • 9

    Votes: 1 3.3%

  • 10 (Unashamed optimist)

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • Total voters
    30
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Would you classify yourself as a optimist or a pessimist? Said otherwise, do you always try to look at the positive side of a situation or do you dwell on the negative aspects? Do you calculate the odds of something going wrong, or are you confident that things will turn out right?

Ok, you get the picture.

I suppose the are no absolutes, so I will poll will a 1-10 scale.






Thanks whomever did it. 👍
 
I'd say right about a 7. Most of the time I look forward to things expecting good results.
 
I'm a 9. I tend to get cheesed off about little inconsequential things, but in general things work out acceptably, if not always ideally.

And you're welcome - but man, you picked up on that quickly!
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
I'm a 9. I tend to get cheesed off about little inconsequential things, but in general things work out acceptably, if not always ideally.
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I am a 3 for myself, but if somebody comes to me with a problem I up the stakes to a 9 and try to make them see the good.



And you're welcome - but man, you picked up on that quickly!
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;)
 
I'm usually 5 but I have a tendency to jump to either extreme depending on circumstances
 
I'm probably the most optimistic person I know. On the rare occasion I am feeling pessimistic and verbally express it people are usually taken aback because it's so out of character for me. I am usually in the roll of encouraging others to see the bright side or look further into the future, past some immediate inconveneince. I believe we all must interpret events in the way(s) that benefit us most; especially after the fact, to anything else is simply unnatural. Optimism is the natural human state, it is an instinct. Pessimism is socially programmed and degenerative.
 
Probably an 8...vaguely optimistic when hopeful, slighty pessimistic when people need a dose of truth straight to thier face. Or at least, humourous truth, when that's all they can handle.

Tercel_driver obviously rates himself a 1, but a negative integer might be more his style. Listen buddy, if you're going to call someone a name, do it with the PM system, and should the need arise to flame, at least have a reason why you think someone sucks.

At least your courage has raised a notch, why not try it in real-life, you know...away from a computer?
 
Originally posted by pupik
Probably an 8...vaguely optimistic when hopeful, slighty pessimistic when people need a dose of truth straight to thier face. Or at least, humourous truth, when that's all they can handle.

Tecel_driver obviously rates himself a 1, but a negative integer might be more his style.
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I rate myself realistic.

And you are talking about courage from a computer station. Hmm...
 
I land in around an 8 or 9. . . I always tend to pick the mood around all my firends. I have breif periods of time where little things get to me. Big things will get to me down for a bit, but I always bounce back up. . . Lately though it has been tougher, but everything is getting better again : )
 
Originally posted by Tercel_driver
It's because you suck.
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No,it's because you should have kept your mouth shut and stayed out of this thread and actually talk about what the subject is.

Anyway, I rate myself a 5. I try as hard as I can to be optomistic but some of the littlest things can make me go off the deep end.
 
Originally posted by xAkirax2004
No,it's because you should have kept your mouth shut and stayed out of this thread and actually talk about what the subject is.

Anyway, I rate myself a 5. I try as hard as I can to be optomistic but some of the littlest things can make me go off the deep end.
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That is impossible because a nuisance always breaks up the party.
 
I thoroughly enjoy the irony of someone sitting at their computer ridiculing everybody else who is sitting at their computer. In other words, it cracks me up when people knock themselves when attempting to insult others, most of whom are impervious to such miniscule and trivial harassment anyway. Some people's inevitabilities are down right satirical.
 
Originally posted by Grammar Man!
I thoroughly enjoy the irony of someone sitting at their computer ridiculing everybody else who is sitting at their computer. In other words, it cracks me up when people knock themselves when attempting to insult others, most of whom are impervious to such miniscule and trivial harassment anyway. Some people's inevitabilities are down right satirical.
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Well said, "sniff, sniff" That was beautiful : )
 
I'd say I'm a 7, since I normally tend to look on the bright side of things but I don't lose sight of reality. But lately I've been feeling a bit depressed so I've been looking at the downside of things mostly.
 
One. I rarely look on the good side, or what good could come of something. Only the bad stuff that has/will/could happen.
 
I'd rate myself a 6. I'm not really optimistic or pessimistic about things. Things usually turn out better than I expect them to. I worry about too much, when in the end things usually go smoothly.
 
I've given myself a 7, if you asked me a year or so ago it would've been 3 or 4 but 2, 2 and a half years ago and it would've been a 9. I'm working back to that, but it's taking a long time.
 
Thanks Grammar man. . . Although I truly have bad grammar : ( I will try harder in the future. : )
 
Mike, I hope you haven't got too great excpectations on a poll like this.

Ever heard of the "Social desirability effect"?
 
Thanks Grammar man. . . Although I truly have bad grammar : ( I will try harder in the future. : )
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Originally posted by Grammar Man!
That's good, because it shouldn't 👍

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Where is "Sir Punctuation" ?
 

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