How's Your Attitiude?

Post Reply New Topic

Well I never said that being cynical necessarily meant being negative, however, cynics are more likely to be negative people.

Based upon dictionary.com though, the definitions of cynicism is as following:
cyn·ic /ˈsɪnɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[sin-ik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. a person who believes that only selfishness motivates human actions and who disbelieves in or minimizes selfless acts or disinterested points of view.
3. a person who shows or expresses a bitterly or sneeringly cynical attitude.
–adjective
4. cynical.
cyn·i·cal /ˈsɪnɪkəl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[sin-i-kuhl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. like or characteristic of a cynic; distrusting or disparaging the motives of others.
2. showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one's actions, esp. by actions that exploit the scruples of others.
3. bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic.

Now being distrustful, contemptuous, or believing in an entirely selfish reality tend to be negative ideas and things that would correlate with a negative world view, and the definition of cynical actually says that cynics DO have a negative world view. Therefore, it would seem to me that there is very little wrong with my interpretation of cynic or cynical in this regard but rather that I am an oddball that fits in one of the definitions of cynic but somehow has a cheery attitude, unless the test is horribly wrong.

I want to see someone get below the average population, or at least the exact same. The closest we've had so far is better than 10%, and the little blurb was pretty negative with that one.
Our population must be made up of serial killers.

Your attitude is better than 80 percent of the population.

I find this to be generally true. I tend to be a perfectionist and harder on myself than on anyone else. I see perfectionism and a need to take action as indicators of a positive attitude, not a negative one. Being completely dissatisfied to the the point of being a malcontent or completely satisfied to the point of complacency are two unhappy extremes.

Close enough.

Your Attitude is Better than 65% of the Population



You have a good attitude. While a realist, you do see the positive side of most things. People love to be around you.

How's Your Attitude?

http://www.blogthings.com/howsyourattitudequiz/

10% of the Population

You have a negative attitude. You tend to see the dark side of every situation. Free ice cream? No thanks, it will just make you fat!


How'd I do so well?

Uhm, you're reading it wrong. Better than 10% is well under average. I rather expected that I'd get a much lower score, but I did answer one question positively.

Oh shoot. I was thinking it meant average population. I do stupid things sometimes.

Your Attitude is Better than 40% of the Population



You have a positive attitude... somtimes. You prefer to see the world through clear glasses, not rose colored ones.

Your Attitude is Better than 50% of the Population

You have a positive attitude... somtimes. You prefer to see the world through clear glasses, not rose colored ones.

Your Attitude is Better than 50% of the Population

You have a positive attitude... somtimes. You prefer to see the world through clear glasses, not rose colored ones.

20%, seems rather high in my current state, though the day is not s bad - I'm looking out the window and the sun IS shining and we've a clear "blue" sky


Michaelmas

PS RainSong - I beg to differ - you've never come across to me here as bitter or (sorry - wrapped up in my own excessive prosody again - I've forgotten the other term you used but I disagree with that one as well) whatever the other term was, either

The other term was negative. Thanks... I'm not as bitter or negative now (last winter and early spring was depression; I'm pretty sure that's when I took this test), but I used to be very much so. I'm just good at hiding it...

Your Attitude is Better than 5% of the Population



You have a negative attitude. You tend to see the dark side of every situation. Free ice cream? No thanks, it will just make you fat!

But I'll take that ice cream. Cookies 'n Cream, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, or Triple Fudge Brownie (no nuts).

***Your Attitude is Better than 30% of the Population***


You have an average attitude. You take the good and bad in life as they come. Though sometimes you could use a little more good.


How's Your Attitude?
http://www.blogthings.com/howsyourattitudequiz/

Your Attitude is Better than 35% of the Population

Your attitude is better than 65% of the population

You have a good attitude. While a realist, you do see the positive side of most things. People love to be around you.