Do you understand others?

[MaleVolentworld]

Do you have difficulty understand the behaviour of other people?

I remember once totally mistaking the behaviour of one woman, I thought she hated me for some reason so I didn't like her. Eventually I found my conclusions were wrong and started to like her. Then I felt like an idiot for not understanding her, applied it to everyone and felt like an idiot for not understanding anyone.

[Pika]

I understand people a lot better today than I did 60 years ago but I still can't say that I understand them.

[dalidaisy]

I have been a student of human behavior as long as I can remember. I don't think I'll ever figure them out. I do, however, notice repeated patterns of behavior that can be easily understood. So, I voted sometimes...

[Jgib5328]

I'm usually really good at reading people and understanding their behavior.

[alphawolf]

I remember once totally mistaking the behaviour of one woman, I thought she hated me for some reason so I didn't like her. Eventually I found my conclusions were wrong and started to like her.


See what happens when you try to understand women?




Then I felt like an idiot for not understanding her, applied it to everyone and felt like an idiot for not understanding anyone.

The more you learn, the less you know.

[pletharoe]

Certain aspects of people are pretty obvious to me. Sometimes I can anticipate how a scenario is going to play out well in advance. Other times I'm left bewildered by people's actions.

It seems I either completely understand a situation or I just don't get it at all. There's no middle ground.

[Josephine1012]

ENFP messing up your data here... I voted "Always", obviously always is an impossiblity, but I bat way higher than "Sometimes"


I'm tuned into other people and I make an effort to understand where they are coming from. This effect is amplified when I take an interest in a person and make it my mission.

[Synamon]

I like figuring out what makes people tick so I'm great at reading and understanding people. N for the win. I walk into walls though, so apparently inanimate objects baffle me sometimes.

[Maja]

I would have gone for a "rarely" option myself, since I figure, if one might answer "sometimes", then the truth is going to be at a level somewhere under that.

I really enjoy studying how people work and social systems, but it's easy to get wrapped up in it and start looking at things as a knowledge when they should be looked at as learning, and dealt with more gingerly. No matter how well I think I think I understand someone, I know I can't fully, and although there is a great amount of communication that can be shared between two people, there is a point where it's just not enough to reach that extra, private space. But that's okay and just how it is.

[SteveJrII]

I went with sometimes, as I tend to look at peoples actions and can sometimes understand them (mostly when I can reason through it). However sometimes I guess I miss the 'emotional' side, as I am not tuned into people all the time.

[Allie]

I like to observe everything...including people :p

So, I make it a point to understand others.

I can even understand that sometimes, I don't understand some people, and I can understand why others don't understand me ;D

[Phyconaut]

It all depends on the person for myself.

some i get their entire existence other times its like a nice brick wall in front of me and i cant read them.

so i guess its sometimes

[Vagrant]

Depends on the person. Usually the more intelligent and mature they are, the easier they are to understand.

[MrCynical]

I understand that they are idiots.

[True Rune]

Sometimes, yes. Usually not in the moment, I have to sit down and switch lenses. Though there is only so far one can go into irrationality. Even our own.

[nuloki]

Yes. At times it disturbs the person I'm talking to. Personalities are fascinatingly complex things and I honestly like analyzing people. Women I've dated have asked me to turn the probes off so the fun, goofy dating rituals can be the fun, goofy things they ought to be. ;D

[HeyZeus]

I have recognized that I give off a "leave me alone" vibe with my expressionless face, brisk walking cadence, and reflexively abstract comments to most stimuli that are mostly intended to entertain myself, yes, but more importantly, to identify other like-minded goofs. There don't seem to be many, sadly for me.

Recognizing that, and changing up may open some venues.

Chris Farley (mockingly): ladies and gentlemen, Tony Robbins.

[une fille]

I've always been able to read people easily, except when it comes down to someone who is attracted to me. They throw me off and I avoid them at all costs, and it's not till weeks or even months later that I go off the defensive and realize they were just trying to get to know me.
Other than those cases, I "get" people, but I'm not always sensitive to their immediate emotions.