What Is Your Biggest Personal Failing?

[jyl]

I don't mean what specific skill or knowledge set you might lack. Or what specific mistakes you've made in your career or marriage or life.

And this is not a question to be gamed as in a job interview. No crap like "my greatest failing? I work too hard". Thoughtful responses please.

This thread asks, simply, for you to identify the greatest deficiency in your character. Your greatest failing as a man.

Are you thoughtless, timid, uncaring, lazy, indecisive, reckless, narrow minded, jealous, dull witted, domineering, impulsive, prideful, backwards looking, over confident, entitled, inflexible, bigoted, etc?

[red-beard]

Sometimes I care too much about the work and become too focused on it.



















Well, do I get the job?

[Dueller]

Marryin' strays.

[red-beard]

Lots of ideas, lack of focus

[lane912]

Sometimes I care too much about the work and become too focused on it.
I let others get me worked up

[vash]

this should develop into a very cheerful thread

[Shadetree930]

Wandering into PARF.

[porsche4life]

Controlling and procrastination.

[VINMAN]

short attention span, bored too easily, dont finish a project before i start another

[URY914]

I blame everything on someone else.

[911_Dude]

I tend to bury any memory of failures.

Hmm... its working. Cant think of any.

[Tishabet]

Timid, passive, over analyzing

[BE911SC]

I spend too much time on the Internet.

[speeder]

I'm going to have to really give this some thought before responding. I have several pretty large shortcomings so picking the biggest one will be hard.

Maybe the hellish combination of being simultaneously lazy and impatient? Selfish? A perfectionist w/o the focus/humility/patience to go through all of the tedium and hoops of becoming skilled at something?

The good news is that human shortcomings are not all encompassing in most cases. I.e., a person can be self-centered but also kind to others and of service to humanity at least some of the time, etc...

[speeder]

Overly judgmental of others while always giving myself a break. Not seeing my part in things. The usual human failings.

[Dueller]

Originally Posted by speeder

Overly judgmental of others while always giving myself a break. Not seeing my part in things. The usual human failings.

WOW! We're exact opposites. I tend to give everyone the benefit of the doubt while blaming myself for everything.



Which explains my proclivity for marryin' strays.

[juanbenae]

can i go with all of the above?

[jyl]

Keep trying, guys. A couple of real responses here, lots of bluffing.

We'll get as much self-insight out of this thread as we put into it.

[speeder]

Originally Posted by Dueller

WOW! We're exact opposites. I tend to give everyone the benefit of the doubt while blaming myself for everything.



Which explains my proclivity for marryin' strays.

Well, you woud be the exception. Most people fail to see their own part in things when conflict occurs, at least partially. This actually ties into marrying the wrong people. Your part in it was marrying the wrong people.

[M.D. Holloway]

Writing what is on my mind without any filters - its been profitable when directed and off-putting when driven by lust...