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When you find yourself to be consistent, do you like it or hate it?

Asked by wundayatta (58722points) January 3rd, 2011

I just discovered I wanted to ask exactly the same question that I’d asked a few months ago. Word for word! I was appalled!

I don’t want to be the same twice, and yet, here I am, consistent despite my wildest efforts to do otherwise.

What about you? Do you like being consistent or does it annoy you? What evidence do you have of being consistent?

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zenvelo's avatar

I like being consistent, although I reserve the right to change my mind. My kids like it when I am consistent, my peers at work enjoy it.

SavoirFaire's avatar

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consistency has its place; but like most things, it does not belong everywhere. I want to be consistent about going to the gym and paying my credit card bill on time, but I don’t want to be consistent in the way I walk home from my office at night lest I become a target. And as a martial artist, I don’t want to be consistent in the way I spar, or else I’ll become completely predictable. Still, I do need to make sure that my strikes consistently aim at the correct targets. It’s all a matter of figuring out where consistency is a virtue and where it is a vice.

Crossroadsgrl's avatar

well there’s nothing else to say that wasn’t covered ;)

janbb's avatar

Sometimes I like being consistent and sometimes I don’t.

Brian1946's avatar

I am always inconsistent. ;-)

Coloma's avatar

I am very emotionally consistent. No nasty little surprises with me. ;-)

All the rest is subjective IMO, but, emotional consistency, stability, is all that matters.

I could care less about being ‘consistent’ in my day to day routines as long as things get done, but what I can’t tolerate are people that run hot & cold.

Take a pill or leave me alone. hahaha

ratboy's avatar

I’m proud of my consistency.

ratboy's avatar

I’m ashamed of consistently being consistent.

Not_the_CIA's avatar

I crave change. That is why I rearrange my bedroom every month. The same reason users of my website hate me. I have been better lately for a few months. Today was the first major change in a few months. I used to constantly change it and people hated it. Now it is pretty solid and people put the pitchforks down.

augustlan's avatar

I’m pretty consistent, and generally okay with that. From time to time, though, I think “God, I’m boring.”

partyparty's avatar

I am more than happy with being consistent

wundayatta's avatar

I don’t like being consistent. It’s boring. It scares me when I find myself doing the same thing I have done before, only I forgot I did it. I would at least like to think I vary in some slight way.

I want to be interesting, and to me that means always being different. Repetition is boring—or it is to me. I almost never read the same thing twice.

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