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View Poll Results: What traits help you most in life?

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Thread: Name a personality that will serve you best in life

post 1697094393 01-28-2024, 04:32 PM
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Name a personality that will serve you best in life

What helps you most?
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being friendly
post 1697094643 01-28-2024, 04:35 PM
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To elaborate, I don’t mean what will make you richest, or alpha, or any of that. What would give you the happiest outcome of your life?
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An act of kindness is never wasted 🙂
post 1697095023 01-28-2024, 04:40 PM
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the most successful people in the world are extremely selfish
post 1697095173 01-28-2024, 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
Out of those, I would think it would be strength - you specified trait, not physical attribute, so I am assuming this is mental fortitude.
I feel the only way a person can possess or exhibit strength is when they have to deviate from what their emotions are telling them.

Anytime we talk about someone being strong, that one thing is required.

Obviously physical strength exists but that is irrelevant to anyone not in a gym. I doesn’t actually do anything for you and there is a point where in order to keep getting stronger, you have to become unhealthy. So I agree it is about mental fortitude.

So if strength and emotional regulation are interchangeable, which I would suggest they are, then that one.

The one thing that nobody works on.

It is a super power.

We can all have it.



The only absolute loyalty anyone should have is to themselves. Every other relationship loyalty should absolutely be conditional.


I would suggest selfishness and emotional regulation are pretty close to being equal at the top of this list for achieving happiness.

And I think everyone should develop emotional regulation for themselves, and be relentlessly selfish.
“The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.“

PS: Don't eat poop, just don't let the idea of it stop you from living life to its fullest.
post 1697095413 01-28-2024, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted By Ironmanlet⏩
I feel the only way a person can possess or exhibit strength is when they have to deviate from what their emotions are telling them.

Anytime we talk about someone being strong, that one thing is required.

Obviously strength exists, but that is irrelevant to anyone not in a gym. I doesn’t actually do anything for you and there is a point where in order to keep getting stronger, you have to become unhealthy. So I agree it is about mental fortitude.

So if strength and emotional regulation are interchangeable, which I would suggest they are, then that one.

The one thing that nobody works on.

It is a super power.

We can all have it.



The only absolute loyalty anyone should have is to themselves. Every other relationship loyalty should absolutely be conditional.


I would suggest selfishness and emotional regulation are pretty close to being equal at the top of this list for achieving happiness.

And I think everyone should develop emotional regulation for themselves, and be relentlessly selfish.
You really did do your stoic studying.

The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'


Or maybe you learned it in other ways.
post 1697095563 01-28-2024, 04:47 PM
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Strength, life becomes hell very quickly if you lose control of it
post 1697095793 01-28-2024, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted By Adam16121⏩
You really did do your stoic studying.

The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'


Or maybe you learned it in other ways.
I am not familiar with that quote, but it does resonate with me. Who said it?
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post 1697095953 01-28-2024, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted By Ironmanlet⏩
I feel the only way a person can possess or exhibit strength is when they have to deviate from what their emotions are telling them.
Not always. For example some of the strongest people imo were those who stood up to the covid madness when it was the most difficult to. When society wanted to lynch you for following common sense. People like Malone and McCullough. Most people folded or were quiet like cowards.
post 1697096343 01-28-2024, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted By Ironmanlet⏩
I am not familiar with that quote, but it does resonate with me. Who said it?
It comes down to Marcus Aurelius way too often.
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Originally Posted By coast2coastam⏩
Not always. For example some of the strongest people imo were those who stood up to the covid madness when it was the most difficult to. When society wanted to lynch you for following common sense. People like Malone and McCullough. Most people folded or were quiet like cowards.
I don’t care about political opinions. That isn’t strength. Everyone has them.

Introducing politics into a topic about self development is inane man. Paying attention to politics, and having opinions about it, is one of worst things any of us can do for our happiness.

Having opinions in general is a huge source of our unhappiness. That idea is magnified when discussing politics. And it is pointless.
Originally Posted By Adam16121⏩
It comes down to Marcus Aurelius way too often.
I have read Meditations a couple times. Of course he is credited (incorrectly) as being the father of stoicism. Not that the title or accomplishment matter from a stoics perspective. I know what you mean by “way too often” lol.

Of course I do appreciate his contributions to the philosophy, they are significant.
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post 1697096793 01-28-2024, 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted By Ironmanlet⏩
I feel the only way a person can possess or exhibit strength is when they have to deviate from what their emotions are telling them.

Anytime we talk about someone being strong, that one thing is required.

Obviously physical strength exists but that is irrelevant to anyone not in a gym. I doesn’t actually do anything for you and there is a point where in order to keep getting stronger, you have to become unhealthy. So I agree it is about mental fortitude.

So if strength and emotional regulation are interchangeable, which I would suggest they are, then that one.

The one thing that nobody works on.

It is a super power.

We can all have it.



The only absolute loyalty anyone should have is to themselves. Every other relationship loyalty should absolutely be conditional.


I would suggest selfishness and emotional regulation are pretty close to being equal at the top of this list for achieving happiness.

And I think everyone should develop emotional regulation for themselves, and be relentlessly selfish.
Emotions are what makes us human. So they do have their place.


Emotions provide valuable information.



Emotional regulation is important so you can think and see things clearly.
post 1697096863 01-28-2024, 05:04 PM
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For the record, I choose loyalty.
post 1697096953 01-28-2024, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted By Adam16121⏩
For the record, I choose loyalty.
I feel like all the options are relevant. I imagine as the thread goes on, you will get a good mix of the answers.
“The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.“

PS: Don't eat poop, just don't let the idea of it stop you from living life to its fullest.
post 1697097083 01-28-2024, 05:08 PM
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If you continually give, you will continually have

-fortune cookie i read one time
post 1697097183 01-28-2024, 05:09 PM
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Originally Posted By Reserrection⏩
If you continually give, you will continually have

-fortune cookie i read one time
You can't give what you don't have
post 1697098253 01-28-2024, 05:27 PM
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Resiliency but that probably falls under the umbrella of strength.
post 1697098273 01-28-2024, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
I think it would be very hard to have any of the other three as a person who is not strong - that's why I picked that one.
I understand this. It reminds me of some old quote where you can’t forgive without power. Only the strong have the power to forgive, otherwise it is the same as cowardice. It had me thinking.

It seems that many of these traits are interconnected.
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