If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

[Howard]

Needs to be realistic.

For myself, I would like to always be on time for things - inspired by that other thread. I'm usually late to anything but doctors' appointments.

 

[IronWing]

Hermaphrodite here I come!

 

[brianmanahan]

post count

but im working on it

 

[Exterous]

Not to let stupid people piss me off so much. I guess getting off ATOT would help

 

[FoBoT]

be more 'driven', i.e. motivated


Who is John Galt?

 

[IronWing]

Who is John Galt?

Some 1%er dickhead.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I wish I was less willing to take on extra responsibility especially when I don't get paid for it.

 

[DominionSeraph]

be more 'driven', i.e. motivated

This.
Being smart makes it really easy to be very lazy.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Be more motivated and getrdone. I have all these ideas for projects and other stuff that come through my mind, but when it comes to actually executing them, I never fully follow through I have so many near completed but unfinished projects on the go, it's crazy.

For example I wrote a forum software from scratch, it was nearly done, I got bored, never finished it. I started on a server management system, got bored, never finished it. I have lot of more active projects that I've just kinda let go, or when I do work on them, I'm just not motivated.

What's funny is I will get motivated at times, but it's always at a bad time, such as 11:00pm on a night where I work the day after.

 

[Dirigible]

I would do everything with vigor and spite. It would be awesome. And piss off lots of folks.

 

[Howard]

I would do everything with vigor and spite. It would be awesome. And piss off lots of folks.

:3

 

[coldmeat]

My first thought was motivation as well.

 

[TridenT]

Motivation is highly unrealistic of me.

I'm not sure at this point. I am confused by what you meant realistic.

One thing? I don't know. If I could have a hot body that still resembled me then that would be nice. That would essentially solve all my lady problems. It's amazing how easy things go when a girl is physically attracted to you. It's fucking impossible if girls find you utterly repulsive physically.

 

[Farmer]

Intelligence.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

My failure to buy Apple stock in 2002 when it was barely more than $7/share. Bought AMD instead. Big mistake.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Personality. I rolled a 3 on charisma. I used to think that at the very least I could assert myself in matters of school work with confidence, but even there I've gone on detailed explanations answering a peer's question over a homework problem, only to receive "Hmm, ok, I'll ask someone else, thanks for trying." Now, try asking me a more ambiguous, non-tangible, and multifaceted question like "How is it going?" and watch me stutter as I try to piece together an answer using whatever information is immediately available and come to the answer of "Not much." Then laugh as I only remember that I'm supposed to reciprocate such questions, some thirty minutes later.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

This.
Being smart makes it really easy to be very lazy.

Put yourself in a position where other smart people will challenge you. A doctorate in philosophy or bio-physics, for example.



I would be more healthy.

 

[allenk09]

I'd get rid of my HUGE penis

 

[Dr. Zaus]

I'd get rid of my penis

You CAN do that.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

be more 'driven', i.e. motivated

Definitely my biggest problem.

 

[stargazr]

To not be so quick-tempered.

 

[Xcobra]

Probably be a little more confident and act like it.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Less a slave to my ideals. Would love to be able to compromise sometimes, or take the easy way out.

 

[lokiju]

Tricky but on the surface I'd say I wish I was more driven and had follow through with that drive. I'm already pretty driven and more so than most people I personally know but I wish I could be the kind of person that would decide to do something challenging that takes dedication and focus over a period of time and just do it all the way in every instance.

Examples would be studying for other technical certifications. I want the certain I just loath studying technical books all the time. So unengaging to me. Half the time I feel like I've been drugged with sleeping pills trying to force myself to read such dry technical boring stuff

Also stuff like exercise, work around my house that I would like to do but don't have to do or have done at any set time/date. For instance I have two stacks of large 12" x 12" pavers on my back porch. I need to level out the dirt around my porch, add some top weed block an a layer of sand and lay them out but I just REALLY don't have a big drive to take on that back breaking task.

I say tricky in that if I had this "wish" granted and woke up with a level of drive like no one else I could see how that might be in conflict with my wife not always being drug along to do projects nonstop as one example. I could see how that could become annoying to others.

 

[soulcougher73]

Id have a crazy high metabolism for life where id never actually have to work out to stay thin.