Do you suck or kick ass?

[Lofty]

Haha. I picked I suck because I guess I won't be satisfied without the WR. I do terribly in competition. At home I don't get over 20 seconds average after like 2 minutes of warm-up at competition its a different story.

 

[n00bcubix]

I suck ass

 

[Dene]

Why on earth would you be negative toward yourself?

I can think of a lot of reasons. For me in particular:

I'm ugly;
I'm not smart enough;
I'm not as sporty as I'd like;
I have no social skills;
I am not independant enough.

The list goes on.

 

[cmhardw]

Why on earth would you be negative toward yourself?

I can think of a lot of reasons. For me in particular:

I'm ugly;
I'm not smart enough;
I'm not as sporty as I'd like;
I have no social skills;
I am not independant enough.

The list goes on.

Dene, with all due respect, those are not reasons why you are negative to yourself. Those are just things that you are negative to yourself about. If you tell yourself something enough times, I am convinced that you will start to believe it. So if you consciously tell yourself positive things about yourself (within reason, don't say arrogant or mean things like "I am the awesomest person in the history of awesomeness") then you will start to believe them, and in doing so feel better about yourself.

You are the agent of change you wish to see in your life.

Chris

 

[shafiqdms1]

If you tell yourself something enough times, I am convinced that you will start to believe it. So if you consciously tell yourself positive things about yourself (within reason, don't say arrogant or mean things like "I am the awesomest person in the history of awesomeness") then you will start to believe them, and in doing so feel better about yourself.


Chris

Lol, I am pretty much the opposite. I sometimes say bad things about myself then start believing in it. Like for example, when we take a test and I don't understand anything on the test the only thing I keep saying in my mind is, 'Shafiq you are a stupid retard!" I shouldn't do that because it just causes me to lose more confidence in my abilities and I no longer consider myself as smart as I used to be but yeah there really isn't anything else that I can think on a test I don't understand...

-Shafiq

 

[toast]

I suck hard.

 

[qqwref]

In general I suck. I do have a few cubing accomplishments I'm proud of, but it wouldn't be accurate for me to say "I kick ass". I don't know, maybe it is my personality, but I don't feel it's right for me to brag about stuff, and I get embarrassed if I win things or talk about my personal best times on anything.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Take Lofty's post, replace "20 seconds" with "4 seconds" and "OH" with "2x2", and remove "after like 2 minutes of warm-up".

 

[Leviticus]

I suck ass.

Eww

I suck, but not ass. I'm nearly satisfied with my abilities, drop a few seconds here and their and i'll be alright.

 

[Rubixcubematt]

I suck...........................

 

[Raffael]

24/24. Obviously i kick ass .

Can't really remember reading anything funnier than this in a long long time.
I hereby announce that I fell in love with you, Tim.
I want your babies, too.

oh yeah, btw:
I keep kicking more ass everyday I cube.

 

[Dene]

Why on earth would you be negative toward yourself?

I can think of a lot of reasons. For me in particular:

I'm ugly;
I'm not smart enough;
I'm not as sporty as I'd like;
I have no social skills;
I am not independant enough.

The list goes on.

Dene, with all due respect, those are not reasons why you are negative to yourself. Those are just things that you are negative to yourself about.

Could you please flesh out the difference between "why I am negative to myself", and "what I am negative to myself about"? I'm sure whatever the difference is, I could rephrase my list so that it fits.
Why am I negative to myself: because I do not like myself
What am I negative to myself about: The fact that I do not like myself

Why am I negative to myself: I do not like what I look like
What I am negative to myself about: The fact that I do not like what I look like

Maybe I'm completely missing the point?

BTW, just to be clear, I don't actually care about my looks, but it's always something fun to insult about myself, because people always come out with things like "don't say that" and "oh come on, don't be silly" etc. This reminds me of one of my favourite passages by Kierkegaard, which I may as well put here, although it is quite a mouthful (I'll skip the first sentence):
"...When I was young, I forgot how to laugh...; when I was older, I opened my eyes and beheld reality, at which I began to laugh, and since then I have not stopped laughing. I saw that the meaning of life was to secure a livelihood, and that its goal was to attain a high position; that love's rich dream was marriage with an heiress; that friendship's blessing was help in financial difficulties; that wisdom was what the majority assumed it to be; that enthusiasm consisted in making a speech; that it was courage to risk the loss of ten dollars; that kindness consisted in saying, "You are welcome," at the dinner table; that piety consisted in going to communion once a year. This I saw, and I laughed."
Like all of Kierkegaard's work, the actual meaning is open to interpretation. The way I see it is that there are all these silly social customs, and looking at them externally it is like a joke. I take the same view of life. I think it is amusing watching people and their "social manners" when you take a negative approach to yourself. Personally, I call it realistic, or "the truth". Yes I truly think I am ugly and so on, no I don't care. (Sorry for going off topic, I just didn't want you to worry about me being suicidal or something).

 

[Kenneth]

I suck because I got no look ahead at all, I suck because my hands does not do the turns as I practiced them = lot's of lock ups (I'm freaking fast doing triggers when practice, in 1 of 5 tries =). I kick ass because I know more methods and more algs than almost any other cuber.

But that does not help my times... so I suck

----
Poor Rabid, I won't change with you.

 

[joey]

24/24. Obviously i kick ass .

I have the fastest 2/2, I kick your ass.

 

[Kevin.]

i havent been seriously cubing for to long but im proud of how far ive come from armonk in the spring (avg. 130) to now and average of (check sig)
this topic is really a matter of opinion

nvm i suck lol. but im still proud of my sucky-ness. ;D

 

[d4m4s74]

according to me: I suck
according to other cubers: I suck
according to classmates who never saw someone solve a cube in under a year: I kick ass

now, let's change this minute into 20 seconds

 

[ExoCorsair]

The wording of this poll and thread title is a little crass...

 

[joey]

The wording of this poll and thread title is a little crass...

Not really.

 

[patrickpoako1]

i think i kick ass but it doesnt mean im really good. i've thought almost all my friends how to cube and they're pretty damn good. my best buddy is now even faster than me but only on normal 3x3. I kick their asses on everything else like bigcubes and OH. And no one amongst them knows how to BLD.
So generally I kick my friends asses.

 

[Inusagi]

I think I suck... I have never been soo good that people outside my country knows who I am. I have never reached those great times. So I suck!