thank you buttered toast, fortunately or unfortunately they are about real life.
real life can be insane and stupid. I prefer it to fiction
Tryptamine stated: source post
I think the psyche is very relevant, and importance is relative. A lack of conciseness and attempts at a subtle prelude are themselves revealing.
damn that was good
I love hearing about other people's problems. On the surface it's boring shit you've heard that doesn't matter, but behind it is their soul, their identity, their life's subtext. To turn that away is to turn away knowledge and practice in social perception, both important when it comes to garnering influence and sway.
To turn it away is to allow yourself to become socially retarded, as that's an important portion of the game. Patience is valuable, and going beyond the surface turns the drudgery into entertainment. People are more like puzzles than books.
hdiver stated: source post
i am not going to fucking lay out my life here dude
you wont believe me anyway, or will you?
It worked out for me.
"If you're trying to get to know someone, or understand them in order to navigate the situation or use your findings for future data, that's one thing. The people in my life who do what I mentioned are already transparent at this point. Their verbosity is redundant both at face value and for what it reveals about them, since it is already known."
To what extent do you know them? Do you know how they will react in certain situations? Do you know what drives them? Do you know why they are driven to do what they do?
"Certainly the monologue surrounding the central complaint is enlightening of the person's mindset, but generally not of the problem they are complaining about. Unless of course the problem is that they were, say, late to work. Then their rambling might indicate they have chronic issues with efficiency."
I find how people rationalize things pretty interesting. It tells you what they do and/or don't want to be seen as.
"But I'm also not as interested in people as you. Since I was more so in my youth, I don't feel "socially retarded" usually, but rather, retired. There's that pervasive ineptitude of never having learned versus being over it. I just don't see people are very different from each other. Maybe they are, but they all tend to remind me of someone else, and it's helped me to get where I am to see them as such."
Many people on the surface will appear the same because of cultural conditions. Lame example: Many serial killers have been able to continue operating because they appear like ordinary people. But again, I don't how much you read into people.