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Old 05-29-2010, 06:57 AM
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I love to interpret human nature and behaviour. However, it has become increasingly more complicated recently. I have just found myself becoming exhausted when trying to interpret and categorize (yes, as a history scholar I break everything down into understandable bits) every small reaction and interaction.

I will continue to try and do so, I might try mind-mapping or something. The human brain is like trying to solve a complex equation.

So I ask, otherwise this thread would be pointless psychobable, does anyone else attempt to interpret human behaviour and nature on a regular basis like I do? I find it most fascinating, "among other feelings".
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I'm glad to find someone else who contemplates human behaviour like I do..I can't help watching and observing when people get in all sorts of situations and their emotions and mechanisms that they establish and show when they need to cope and adapt to situations. As a budding social worker I feel that I should be able to watch and identify humans in their environment so then when I eventually become a social worker I might know how to best treat them..
Not only that but it gives me something to do with my spare time..
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That is indeed something cool to do... although for me sometimes I spend too much time trying to figure myself out first
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Old 05-29-2010, 07:28 AM
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I'm glad to find someone else who contemplates human behaviour like I do..I can't help watching and observing when people get in all sorts of situations and their emotions and mechanisms that they establish and show when they need to cope and adapt to situations. As a budding social worker I feel that I should be able to watch and identify humans in their environment so then when I eventually become a social worker I might know how to best treat them..
Not only that but it gives me something to do with my spare time..
Mmmh. I'm glad that I can relate to you about this. It is truly fascinating. I also have an extremely abstract sense of humour. Lets not go there. But my point is, if I've percieved someones behaviour and nature for long enough then I usually find aspects of it tantalizingly funny. I'm not saying that it's a good thing. But that's just me. I am also fascinated by personality flaws if I find them.

Lets take Macbeth in Shakespeare's play "Macbeth". The character Macbeth has an inherant personality flaw, that is, his "vaulting ambition". This eventually leads to his death if you've read the play. He is a perfectly normal and genuine character in all other lights. Sorry to get shakespearian on you. But I couldn't think of anything else.

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That is indeed something cool to do... although for me sometimes I spend too much time trying to figure myself out first
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Yea, although my adult friend really loves to examine other people... it's fascinating all that he knows just by observing.
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Old 05-29-2010, 08:13 AM
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Hahaha ahh yes there are traits that can override others..we all have our flaws, our weak spot. I just hope that most can help themselves before they lose control.
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Yea, although my adult friend really loves to examine other people... it's fascinating all that he knows just by observing.
Fascinating indeed.

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Hahaha ahh yes there are traits that can override others..we all have our flaws, our weak spot. I just hope that most can help themselves before they lose control.
I have observed weaker personalities become absolute slaves to more dominant personalities as well. Clearly a flaw. This is something you must avoid at all costs.
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So I ask, otherwise this thread would be pointless psychobable, does anyone else attempt to interpret human behaviour and nature on a regular basis like I do? I find it most fascinating, "among other feelings".

Yes, I have. I found it out its rather pointless. Not saying it's not beneficial in any way. If you can categorize the bad people from the good with solid confidence and reasonable doubt. It's good to know the mapped behaviors of those kind of people, giving you a further archive of behavioral cues to look for. Being social-borned stupid and nullified, I did analyze human behavior for good chunk of 10 years while I was in Elementary-High school to further improve my social life. Nothing good came of it other than speculation, fear, and unnecessary panic. In short, I failed in every way and on every level. A big reason behind that failure was that I never accepted anything in being out of my own control (even the things we typically don't have any control over).

I found my own way, and it's a very unique way.
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Yes, I have. I found it out its rather pointless. Not saying it's not beneficial in any way. If you can categorize the bad people from the good with solid confidence and reasonable doubt. It's good to know the mapped behaviors of those kind of people, giving you a further archive of behavioral cues to look for. Being social-borned stupid and nullified, I did analyze human behavior for good chunk of 10 years while I was in Elementary-High school to further improve my social life. Nothing good came of it other than speculation, fear, and unnecessary panic. In short, I failed in every way and on every level. A big reason behind that failure was that I never accepted anything in being out of my own control (even the things we typically don't have any control over).

I found my own way, and it's a very unique way.
Fascinating. This is what I am finding and it's quite exhaustive. I may have to give it up altogethor. Although blatent cues should be easy enough to identify.

I have trouble with things being out of my control. Put simply, my dream job would be to take over from God when he retires. But it doesn't look promising.

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I work for a history scholar myself, Spock, and I am constantly trying to figure him out.
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I work for a history scholar myself, Spock, and I am constantly trying to figure him out.

Seriously, a lot of the time it's difficult, because the fellow trusts me rather completely. That's a tremendous compliment. But I wonder sometimes at the distance he maintains. There is always something like that between a leader and the led, it's only proper. This is more than that. Then again, we recently bonded completely on the search for a particular datum relevant to a project we were working on. It was great fun to be so completely on the same page, trying to ferret out fact. I step back from this, and analyze.

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Count me in. I like observing people in every day situations like a lesson in school. The precedence of everyone in the classroom shows though easily.
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Old 05-29-2010, 09:08 AM
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Count me in. I like observing people in every day situations like a lesson in school. The precedence of everyone in the classroom shows though easily.
This is the stuff I can cope with. It does show through easily. Most fascinating is it. (Yoda speak)
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Yes, I am interested in this sort of thing. In a book by Bernard weber, it said that human bevaiour is very similar to that of rats. Apparently we are psychologically very similar to rats.
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Yes, I am interested in this sort of thing. In a book by Bernard weber, it said that human bevaiour is very similar to that of rats. Apparently we are psychologically very similar to rats.
That would be an interesting take on it for sure.
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If every time I thought on humanity they gave me a cent, I'd have... 1382'81 dollars in my bank account.

I do think over human behavior. So many times. And every time I do it it's more difficult than before; though I have began to be in a permanent enlightenment stage, specially after Avatar. Some of these revelations fade away, some others are written somewhere in the four or five little notebooks I have and eventually end up in my computer, in the Project Veritas or in a txt file called "Notes".

I just hope to be able to use all that data for a good purpose someday.
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