I find compensating to be intriguing

[UFCBlackbelt]

I am absolutely fascinated by human psychology, one of the most interesting things to me is compensating.

The way a person proscribes a purpose for a negative part of their life, generally changing it to a positive.

For example, someone who lacks a social life may post a quote about God leading them to better things and not having certain people around to hinder them, as a way to compensate for their lack of friends.

We all know about physical compensations. We also see compensation in fighters, who argue "if I took XYZ more seriously, I would have won" - "I felt weird that night, it was not me".

It is, on the other hand, very rare to find people who accept situations with full responsibility. It's as if we feel a need to add purpose for failure. Why is it that we do not feel the same way about success? I can easily say "I did a great job" , I rare to have to say "I did a great job because in this specific instance this went well, but it could easily have not" - it's rare that I do.

 

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

my beuatiful face compensates for my awful personality, does that count?

 

[Estemachine]

This it's not a very good post, but neither is the thread.

 

[Robocok]

Yeah, we have egos. Compensating is a tool to protect them.

 

[yamahacrasher]

I don't think you're using compensate correctly.

 

[Deleted member 409801]

We suck and we are all gonna rot Inconsequentially in the ground in the end anyway.

Is that what you expect people to fall back to dude? We have a finite window here and the psyche knows it intrinsically even if it's not acknowledged. It's all just an inate protective mechanism of a fragile being clinging to a tenuous existence and not that mysterious really

 

[ROKKO]

I find compensating to be an important part of the transaction. I work for a business. I don't do that work because I like it but because as compensation I am given a paycheck.

Compensating is important to me. It would be better if I was overcompensated.

 

[bad seed]

I am absolutely fascinated by human psychology, one of the most interesting things to me is compensating.

The way a person proscribes a purpose for a negative part of their life, generally changing it to a positive.

For example, someone who lacks a social life may post a quote about God leading them to better things and not having certain people around to hinder them, as a way to compensate for their lack of friends.

We all know about physical compensations. We also see compensation in fighters, who argue "if I took XYZ more seriously, I would have won" - "I felt weird that night, it was not me".

It is, on the other hand, very rare to find people who accept situations with full responsibility. It's as if we feel a need to add purpose for failure. Why is it that we do not feel the same way about success? I can easily say "I did a great job" , I rare to have to say "I did a great job because in this specific instance this went well, but it could easily have not" - it's rare that I do.

how do you compensate for that face of yours?

 

[UFCBlackbelt]

how do you compensate for that face of yours?

By fucking women like your mother

 

[Organic Damage]

I never understood why compensating has a pejorative connotation. Yeah, nobody is awesome at everything... it makes sense to play up your upsides rather than dwell on your deficits, from a psychological standpoint anyway.

Except for jacked manlets. They're just embarrassing themselves.

 

[Reyesnuthugr]

I wonder if TS found his own over-defensiveness to be intriguing in the Millennial criticism thread he started.

 

[D Train]

My enormous penis compensates for my massive bank account. Am I doing it right?

 

[Alphaboy]

Fascinating? It's annoying how people can justify anything to make themselves feel better rather than take personal responsibility

 

[Krixes]

Damn it, thought this was going to be about lifted trucks. Was totally gonna show off my lifted Bronco.

 

[Plutoburn]

Sounds like ts is trying to be intriguing as a mechanism to compensate.

 

[Pugilistic]

My post to like ratio compensates for my height.

 

[THEfightsAREfixed]

I don't think you're using compensate correctly.

I don't think you use dictionaries much

 

[genecop]

We really shouldn’t take credit for anything we do good or bad...you are who you are and that fact as far as we know had nothing to do with your choices...

 

[HARRISON_3]

Seems like more of an OT thread...

@Peteyandjia

 

[UFCBlackbelt]

My post to like ratio compensates for my height.

its an average P/L ratio bordering on almost 1.0, needs some work