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What is a quality in yourself that you don't see much of in others?

8 years ago by amphetamine with 12 comments

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  • oystein
    +4

    Awareness of surroundings. I see so many people totally oblivious to what's around them that I'm amazed they survive.

    • amphetamine
      +3

      This is a really good trait to have. I know many people who were hit by cars due to this. Awareness of shady/untrustworthy traits in people is also something that is seemingly uncommon. Females seem to lack this trait more than males, from what I've noticed.

      • oystein
        +3

        I have that too. Working as a teacher for more than ten years have honed my people skills.

  • spaceghoti
    +3

    I can't think of anything. I don't possess any qualities that are particularly unique.

    • oystein
      +5

      You have more XP :-D

      • spaceghoti
        +4

        But not more than /u/drunkenninja. ;)

        • oystein
          +3

          Drunken Ninjas get more XP than Space Fishes. After all, you just float around in space for millennia. :-D

    • amphetamine
      +4

      Having no unique quality is probably the most unique quality to exist.

      • spaceghoti
        +5

        I'm human. I breathe. I eat. I excrete. I sleep. I think. I speak. I move about. I don't do anything that's outside the range of human behavior. For there to be a quality to myself that's unique no one else can have it. One other person sharing that quality makes it not unique to me.

        Now, I may focus on different things than the norm and my qualities may be a different mix than yours, but that still doesn't fit your criteria of possessing a unique quality. Most people who know me consider me far more patient and relaxed than anyone else they know, but again these are not unique qualities. I simply express them differently. I have a creative mind that my friends enjoy when I organize an event or run a game but that's still not unique. I have my own voice when I write either opinion or fiction, but that's not unique either.

        Our personalities may be unique, but our personalities are all made up of qualities that are shared across the human spectrum. What quality can you think of in any human past or present that you would consider unique as opposed to simply pronounced?

      • Tempest
        +3

        If having no unique quality means that I have the most unique quality, it would mean that I do have a unique quality after all, which would negate the fact that I have THE most unique quality. Therefore, I wouldn't have the most unique quality, and since I don't have any other unique qualities, that would mean that I have no unique quality, which would mean that I have THE most unique quality, but then again, we've come to the conclusion that having the most unique quality means that I do have a unique quality after all and... and... I need to lie down.