Your two strongest emotion-based attributes?

Mine are both near-direct contrasts to one another; they grant me a different benefit when active.

When I maintain my calm, composure, and lack of excessive emotional response, my cognitive function receives the greatest benefit. I am able to think deeply almost effortlessly, and while playing real-time games, I am able to effectively make up my battle plan as I go. My physical ability, however, is lacklustre, since I don't get that "adrenaline rush" so easily when I'm well situated in "neutral mood stance".

If I am cornered, or someone I consider dear to me is forced into a severely threatening situation in my presence by an outsider, I can deliberately "shelve" most of my cognitive attributes that would make me a less effective physical fighter (anything that could cause hesitation or fear is quite literally "put on the shelf"), and I become directed only by the most basic levels of fighting instinct and aggressive intent (without putting my friends/family in harm's way). I do not feel hesitation or fear, because while I am in that elevated state, I am temporarily incapable of feeling such things (shelving my emotions almost completely disables them at conscious-level thought).

Things that I would do in the "aggression overload" state are best left without lingering regrets; people who would attempt malicious acts of harm upon me, or my friends and family, tempted fate with that act of arrogance, and I am simply delivering a severe consequence for their chosen path.

That's just how I function these days, though thankfully, I haven't had to use my aggressive stance against anyone so far (probably for the best, as well). What about you guys? What are your two strongest emotion-based attributes?

Edit: Looks like someone is on a down-voting spree again, *shrugs*.

Sorry, I normally reply seriously to questions and opinions I can understand. What you're saying here is something only you understand. Try to rephrase the question for a valid reply. My bad if this reply is an inconvenience to you.

"Emotion-based attributes" is actually vague for you??


*Sigh*, these attributes could be physical strength, cognitive prowess, or anything else with real world applications, but they have to draw their energy from at least one emotion. Whether that's anger, hatred, joy, despair, serenity, or emptiness, that's irrelevant as long as it's something.

Never heard the term before, but you defined it a bit.

I guess my physical endurance to walk three hours without rest daily comes from a feeling of unease and powerlessness. My mental endurance to eat very little and suppress hunger comes from a feeling of guilt of the thought of becoming fat.

Hm. This is about the kind of response I would be watching for if anyone else decides to comment on this topic.

[size=10]I can definitely understand the suppression of hunger man; I got TOO close to morbid obesity at least once (5'11" at 280-290 lbs, and I barely managed to stop myself there)...[/h]

[color=#993300]Oi geez Shino....again with this? Ah well...

OT: I must say, my ability to ignore pain I just about any form would be one, as long as, one, I know what I'm doing, and two, my body allows me to go that far. I guess I have a relatively high mental strength and am able to remain level-headed as long as I wish.

Additionally, I believe my ability to create emotional synergy is very strong. Because I usually try to reason things out and (despite the fact that I have a high emotional output) have a strong superego, I can blend the two very well, granting me the ability to conduct actions very quickly and effectively if immediately needed.

Don't worry about Shino, no offense to him.

I don't know if "duty" counts as an emotional state or not. I've been trying to find a succinct title for "I must protect you!" but nothing really comes to mind. In cases when a loved one in any kind of turmoil any illness or injury I have easily gets muted to the point where I'm no longer hindered by it and I just focus on taking care of the person who needs me.

On the flipside of that "betrayal" always brings out the absolute worst in me. I find myself in the midst of some Machiavellian vengeful plotting when someone else usually has to step in and tell me to cool it out a bit. I guess that counts as a mix of anger and possibly jealousy? Idunno, maybe I'm no good at defining emotions, I should have eaten before replying, the strongest emotion in me right now is hunger XD

Would calm count? If so i'd say my calm.
I rarely get stressed at all and being able to keep myself calm during stressfull situations helps me make good decisions under pressure.
I also have some serious patience which is handy when it comes to dealing with people.

My empathy is my double edged sword.
It helps me put myself in other peoples positions and feel what they feel..
But it's not something i can turn on or off. So that means i'll feel horrible if something bad happens to someone around me and i'll try and help them as much as i can/they'll allow me to.

I might've misunderstood the question. But that's my reply

[color=#993300]Wow, 4 years and this is your first post. Where've you been?

Hmm, an interesting question...

The excitement I feel when posed with an interesting problem always seems to stimulate my mental ability. I can rinse through an interesting proof in about 2 minutes, whilst a boring one will take me about 10 minutes (although obviously that would also depend on the difficulty of the proof).

Then there's my determination. Although it's more like stubbornness. When I really set my mind on something, I have tremendous mental and physical endurance. Once as a child, when I really wanted to go home, my family decided we should go part way up a mountain to see a waterfall. At first, I just sat in the car and refused to get out. My mom managed to drag me out, and said that I should just get on with it and then it'll be over soon. So I walked up and down again, without stopping, got back in the car and sat there sulking till my parents completed the walk.

To me some of these don't fit. Physical strength isn't always something you get by drawing on emotions, and endurance and cognitive are the same. It wouldn't make sense to say I am smart cause I am mad....

I am physically strong cause I want to be, no emotion drawn on. I am smart cause I always been so. There are certain times when determined cause annoyed with people to prove them wrong, that I focus a little more on what I am doing. That though tends to work with cognitive and physical.

Would been better to ask what two emotions tend to help enhance yourself or belittle yourself in real life situations.

Probably my resolve. I generally won't give up on something until it sees completion, this can see me become a bit of a perfectionist though since I am never satisfied with my own work. Hence why I've written a 200,000 word novel and I still feel like it's not detailed enough and wish to continue it.

My stubbornness is also very similar (It's probably the same thing really in many ways) since I don't stop arguing my case even after I know I've been proven wrong. I'll never let anyone else win against me when it comes to competitions thanks to that stubbornness. I'll also keep trying something where other people would conclude that continuing is pointless such as trying to land a coin on its head ten times in a row. Although that's due to the OCD in that example.

Hmmm, for me; compassion and anxious.

I can't help but care for others and want to help when I am able to. Pretty much the main reason I am going into the profession that I am. Compassion just sort of comes naturally for me since I don't need any sort of motivation or incentive to care, nor would I ever want to. I just enjoy when I can do my part and just feels better to be selfless (though I can be selfish when it comes to things like books I want or sweets).

Anxious is another big emotion I have. I'm a classic worry wart and have always had to some degree general anxiety. Not as bad as it use to be, but it still is a big part of my life (espically with college exams; thank god it's almost done!). Don't like being anxious, but it's apart of who I am so I just deal with it the best I can. Helps to have good friends and family that help quite a bit.

A lot of mine right now are negative.

Inadequacy often gets in the way when I'm looking for work. Maybe someone should hop in my dreams and kill it for me.

Another one is being unable to control my emotions, I guess. I'm usually completely unresponsive emotionally to most situations. Prime example would be when my grandad died, I didn't feel anything. He was a big part of my life growing up but he did turn nasty towards me in his final years.



In my teenage years I was a nice person. Too nice. Exploitably nice. Where girlfriends I put too much trust in cheated on me and people I considered my best friends betraying me, kind of nice. And family members bitching and gossiping about me because I wasn't doing anything with my life, contributing to the problem rather than helping. I even found out from my parents that my grandparents wanted my mum to abort me. Feeling so hated and unwanted eventually piled up and I just shut down and hid away from society for two years. Even now it takes a lot of effort to crawl out of bed in the morning and I'm always feeling tired and lethargic.

I understand the "too nice" bit quite a lot, actually. Niceties have an upward limit (like anything else), after which it starts making you less flexible, and more vulnerable.

If your "best friends" were betraying you like that, then you're probably better off at this point not being "friends" any longer; true "best friends" do NOT backstab one another (hence probably why I have only a handful of "close friends (three to be precise); friendship strength in quality over quantity, and it hasn't failed me yet).

Even back then I only trusted a handful of people, fewer still I considered best friends. But yeah obviously I'm not friends with them anymore.

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If you have nothing constructive or "on topic" to actually contribute to this post, then don't post at all, please.

Deleting spam troll posts is tedious and wasteful...

For my strong negative emotion I would have to list depression. I am always in a negative mood most of the time and it has been like this for a really long time. I used to take depression medication but it made me numb, personally I would rather feel being upset versus not feeling anything at all.

As far as a positive attribute would go I would say it's my unwavering patience. I'm very level-headed when it comes to problems presented to me. I'm also very tolerant with people/children, and am capable of riding out bad situations without losing my cool. Not all things in life are easy, I'm laid-back enough to be patient with it. No use losing it over something that will eventually resolve itself. (I'm probably so patient because of my depression, when you feel you have nothing to lose there's much less pressure)

I lol'd.