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Are you assertive?

  • 27-01-2013 7:19pm
    #1
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭


    Just as the title says, are you assertive, do you stand up for yourself. During various periods of my younger days I varied between being passive and assertive but now I will stand up for myself.

    Do you stand up for yourself and when's the last time you had to do it?


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  • #2
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Fuck you steddyeddy


  • #3
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,903 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    I can't help but always express my opinion, which probably explains why I'm on boards so much. It's a hindrance more than a help because life is a lot less hastle if you just sit down and do what you're told


  • #4
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Standard Toaster wrote: »
    Fuck you steddyeddy

    Would you care to step outside?


  • #5
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,412 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    I am. Well, I think I am. What do you guys think? Am I? I'm not sure...


  • #6
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Yes I am very assertive but in a very diplomatic way ;-)


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  • #7
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Yes, god damn-it!
    Sit up straight as your reading this.

    Do it - DO IT NOW!!!


  • #8
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,412 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Biggins wrote: »
    Yes, god damn-it!
    Sit up straight as your reading this.

    Do it - DO IT NOW!!!
    That's not assertive. That's bossy!!!


  • #9
    Gauss
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 550 ✭✭✭Gauss


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Just as the title says, are you assertive, do you stand up for yourself. During various periods of my younger days I varied between being passive and assertive but now I will stand up for myself.

    Do you stand up for yourself and when's the last time you had to do it?

    Being assertive doesn't equal standing up for yourself.

    It's more about taking the inititive. I know many people who "stand up for themselves" (most do) who aren't assertive.


  • #10
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    endacl wrote: »
    That's not assertive. That's bossy!!!

    I must say that to my wife! :o

    (I'm soon to be hit by a flying pan)


  • #11
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,412 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Biggins wrote: »

    I must say that to my wife! :o

    [SIZE="1"](I'm soon to be hit by a flying pan)[/SIZE]
    Duck!


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  • #12
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    I am, not hugely by choice, it just sort of goes with the territory at work. I'm passive enough in daily life, but at work I'm very alpha, if I wasn't, I'd get walked on and nothing would get done. I'm a bit of a force of nature at work, an awful lot gets done just through sheer will and bossiness.


  • #13
    Truncheon Rouge
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 388 ✭✭Truncheon Rouge


    like you OP I vary, depends on mood I suppose.
    but part of me, the logical part, has given up correcting every small slight.

    90% of the time its not worth the effort so fck it.

    so take my seat/parking space, the expended kilojoules of me flapping my jaw, wagging my finger, recording you in my book of enemies and having to think about it after is greater than the benefits of said seat.

    people sometimes argue just to connect with another human, just for some attention, im pretty sure of this.


  • #14
    the culture of deference
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭the culture of deference


    Where is the line between bossy and assertive?


  • #15
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    the culture of deference wrote: »
    Where is the line between bossy and assertive?

    on the boundaries of showing people respect. Assertive behaviour shows respect whilst making your point. Being bossy doesnt


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