Do you deal better with hypothetical questions or real life situations?

[AreaCode707]

And why do you think you're better at one than the other? What impact does that have of you? Do you think people who are more introspective do better at hypotheticals?

 

[Kalvin00]

😕

 

[Zenmervolt]

Dang you! Stop stimulating my mind! I need to sleep and just can't pull away. 😛

Hypotheticals are much more fun, they can be played with endlessley and no solution is ever truly found for them. There's room for a lot more mental creativity and the rules for the scenarios are arbitrary and can be defined as one wishes.

On the other hand, real life situations require a lot more subtleties to be taken into account and have more nuances, which makes them more difficult (and therefore more fun) to wrap one's mind around.

Of course, real life situations also have strange and often inconvenient restrictions on what can and cannot be done.

Then again, one doesn't have the satisfaction of actually helping people when dealing with hypothetical situations...

*steps out of the infinite loop before it traps him* HA! 😛

ZV

 

[vi edit]

Real life situations. Completely. Simply because you don't have time to think about it and you just have to react.

Hypotheticals just make you overanalize the problem and you end up completely drifting away from the task at hand.

But, I've always been on the labor/get it done side of things and not the "think it up and send it off to get done" side of things.

Hypotheticals are nice when you have nothing better to do, but ultimately it's the "real life" people that end up doing the work.

 

[QuitBanningMe]

😕Both. I am capable of and do think of the most likely outcome in both situations...........................
It doesn't really seem to help though....I am relatively poor.


Oh and smoke one for me................

 

[EyeMWing]

I tend to ramble on in my mind over hypotheticals... For hours. Days. Weeks. MONTHS. In real life, I make a snap decision and live with it. In it's essence, that's exactly what you're supposed to do with both of them. So I deal equally well with both.

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I tend to ramble on in my mind over hypotheticals... For hours. Days. Weeks. MONTHS. In real life, I make a snap decision and live with it. In it's essence, that's exactly what you're supposed to do with both of them. So I deal equally well with both.

Which do you have more fun with?

 

[AreaCode707]

bump for the morning crowd.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: HotChic
And why do you think you're better at one than the other? What impact does that have of you? Do you think people who are more introspective do better at hypotheticals?

I've always been one to ponder hypothetical problems at length, but as I get older I've become better at figuring out real life situations.

Knowing how to handle real-life situations tends to make me lose interest in hypothetical situations, since they only remain hypothetical until they actually happen. At that point, you're merely repeating history.

Example: You hear an 18 year old kid ask if he can keep his relationship going when his girlfriend moves to Europe to go to school.

To other young kids out there, this is a hypothetical situation that might work. They'll all say how it can work, blah blah blah. Sure, in theory, it can work. But living life teaches you things. Being older, I've seen this same type of situations play out numerous times. It rarely works. While everyone likes to point out the times it has worked, they conveniently ignore the fact that for every young person's long-distance relationship that works, many more fail.

Another example is when you see someone try something that you've already tried and you know won't work. In your mind you know he's just walking into a trap, but in his mind, since he doesn't have actual experience, it's still a possibility. He'll argue with you to no end about the likely outcome until he experiences it himself.

It's only hypothetical until you've seen it. Then it's just experience.

 

[Hammer]

i deal equally well with both.

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: HotChic
And why do you think you're better at one than the other? What impact does that have of you? Do you think people who are more introspective do better at hypotheticals?

Is this a hypothetical question?

If it is, I'm not very good at it.