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What drives YOU bonkers? For me it is indecisive SLOW thinkers. So why do some think quick and decide quick and some are so very S L O W?

Posted - August 10, 2019

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  • 44724
    I believe many slow thinkers are just trying to insure they make a good decision...unlike those non-thinkers who make terrible decisions. Can you think of anyone like that?
      August 10, 2019 12:43 PM MDT
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  • 113301
    Yup! Thank you for your PARTIAL reply E! Would you like to answer the other part of my question or does nothing drive you bonkers? :) This post was edited by RosieG at August 11, 2019 6:43 AM MDT
      August 11, 2019 3:37 AM MDT
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  • 44724
    I am used to both geniuses and dimwits. I'm too old to go bonkers. It causes stress.
      August 11, 2019 6:44 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    Clearly you are more evolved than I am E. SIGH. Thank you for your reply! :)
      August 11, 2019 7:53 AM MDT
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  • 44724
    23 years of teaching and years working with professors will do that to a person. And sailors, I might add.
      August 11, 2019 5:36 PM MDT
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  • 113301
    You know what E? I betcha even if I had experienced EXACTLY what you have I'd still be me and you'd still be you. I guess some of us have a limited capacity to learn and I'm pretty sure I'm among that some. I do not know what it is exactly. Stubborn? I should be getting mellower as I get older but the opposite is happening. WHY? Beats the he** outta me. Different strokes? Thank you for your reply and Happy Monday to thee! :)
      August 12, 2019 1:54 AM MDT
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  • 1817
    hey i make quick impulse decisions at least once a day and my life is pretty good
      August 11, 2019 6:46 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    :):):)
      August 11, 2019 7:54 AM MDT
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  • 3719
    Slow thinking does not automatically mean indecision.

    Any more then quick thinking automatically give the right answer.

    The one who takes a while to answer but gives a definite reply, may well have thought about it very deeply. 
      August 10, 2019 2:26 PM MDT
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  • 113301
    Since you did not answer the ENTIRE question I asked does that mean nothing drives you bonkers?Thank you for your reply Durdle! :) This post was edited by RosieG at August 11, 2019 3:57 AM MDT
      August 11, 2019 3:38 AM MDT
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  • 3719
    LOL! Sorry Rosie. No, slow thinking does not drive me bonkers, but I can find indecision very frustrating.

    As for why people are slow or quick thinkers, well, I have no idea. I am not a research psychologist. I suppose it's just individual character.
      August 11, 2019 4:08 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    No worries m'dear. You seem to be a very calm methodical individual and a not-easily flustered person. Does anything ever so ANGER you that you just strike out? I'm getting angrier as I get older and I don't think that's normal. Of course the specific cause is the horrendous political dramedy going on in my country. If there were no dumbunnyjacka** "prez" I'm confident I'd be mellower. So do you ever get very angry about anything? I've always decided very quickly. I'm the type of person that acts and then if I screwed up I try to fix it. I can't just sit by watching waiting learning QUIETLY. I don't know why. It's very odd because I was a painfully SHY child and wanted nothing more than to be INVISIBLE. Maybe now I'm just making up for lost time. I dunno. Thank you for your reply and Happy Monday! :)
      August 12, 2019 2:01 AM MDT
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  • 3719
    Thank you for the compliment, Rosie!

    Oh yes, I do get angry at various things - not least with myself at times - but I try not to become completely tied up in knots over it.
      August 12, 2019 3:57 PM MDT
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  • 113301
    You're welcome except that I just tell it like I see it. That you perceive it as a compliment is fine with me Durdle. I don't pussyfoot around. I don't put sugar on it. But by now you are totally aware of that. Thank you for your reply. I'm a very impatient person and I realize it is not helpful to me. I KNOW it's something I need to modify but every single time I'm unaware being in the throes of impatience until AFTER THE FACT and then I realize that once again I indulged myself in sameoldsameolsameold. So I guess I'm addicted to impatience. How do you kick that habit?
      August 13, 2019 2:14 AM MDT
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  • 3719
    Oh, I know you are forthright!


    I used to be very impatient, and sometimes still am, but I've no idea how I overcame it. Just slowly adapted I suppose. I become easily frustrated though, especially when trying to learn something I want to do but find too difficult. After a time my mind just pulls up the drawbridge and declares it impossible. 
      August 13, 2019 2:19 AM MDT
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