what a talent
Talking to people... it seems like I can relate a lot to totally different people. A good thing, yes? Yes. In some ways. I can intuitively know what another person is saying and look at the world as they look at it. I'm pretty good at doing this, I can communicate effectively and exchange insight with people on all sorts of different levels.
However, this leads to a problem. I think I am trying too hard to see things from other's perspectives, because I've found I don't really know where I, as a person, stand. I mean, I know what I believe, I know what I know, I know what I can and can't understand, but somehow when I'm talking to others, my opinion gets lost among trying to understand them. I therefore adopt different attitudes when talking to different people and some of my friends have noticed this and taken it for a flaw in my personality. Am I really that impressionable, that I just automatically adopt the viewpoint of whoever I'm talking to? Geez, that is WEAK. I don't think it's 100% true though, I DO have opinions, but I always take a "listening" and "learning" approach to life and to different people, I hardly ever assert my own opinions or contradict them on theirs. Instead of arguing, I try to see their logic and why they believe what they do.
But in the process, am I losing my own opinions? I don't necessarily agree with everyone I talk to, but in certain situations it may appear as though I do, that I am just affirming people when I talk to them.
Hm.
I think I'm the only one who can turn open-mindedness into a fault. :P I just seem to create problems from anything and everything I am. What a talent.
However, this leads to a problem. I think I am trying too hard to see things from other's perspectives, because I've found I don't really know where I, as a person, stand. I mean, I know what I believe, I know what I know, I know what I can and can't understand, but somehow when I'm talking to others, my opinion gets lost among trying to understand them. I therefore adopt different attitudes when talking to different people and some of my friends have noticed this and taken it for a flaw in my personality. Am I really that impressionable, that I just automatically adopt the viewpoint of whoever I'm talking to? Geez, that is WEAK. I don't think it's 100% true though, I DO have opinions, but I always take a "listening" and "learning" approach to life and to different people, I hardly ever assert my own opinions or contradict them on theirs. Instead of arguing, I try to see their logic and why they believe what they do.
But in the process, am I losing my own opinions? I don't necessarily agree with everyone I talk to, but in certain situations it may appear as though I do, that I am just affirming people when I talk to them.
Hm.
I think I'm the only one who can turn open-mindedness into a fault. :P I just seem to create problems from anything and everything I am. What a talent.