What is your greatest weakness?

Question

A personality trait? Another person? A food? A materialistic item?

Answer 1

My hubby I guess who is very "high maintenance". He has had kind of a hard life and I really love him very much. Plus the beginning of our relationship was so perfect and so special that even though he drives me crazy sometimes, I can still draw off that. We are still best friends and we still have good times, so I usually do whatever I can do to keep him happy.

Answer 2

My greatest weakness that's a song to. I'll say teachers. I could go into some long confessional on my personality trait but there is litigation currently pending it could effect the outcome of my case. Of course if I was to elaborate it could mean ten points. I'd say my greatest weakness is thinking to much and making rush judgements without allowing others to interject their take on the situation. With a trait like this at work it can often make allowing another person access to the greatest weakness title a challenge.

Answer 3

I think that my greatest weakness is that I have spent most of my adult life living up to and catering to the ideals and potential that other people have wanted for me, and rarely did I ever step back and wonder what it was that I wanted for myself.

There was a time where I followed the path set forth, I was a good wife, I was doing the corporate thing, I believed I could juggle everything, eventually become a mother and have the "life" that everyone expected of me.

Hindsight is always 20/20, and now I can see I wasn't cut out for much of that, at least not in the way these things had manifested themselves into my life. It is a hard lesson to learn, but in the end I did. I lived through the disappointment of others, and realized that it was not the worst thng in the world, it was easier to surpass their disappointment than it was to mask my own in grieving for the time I wasted trying to be something I was not hard-wired to be.

Be yourself... it's all that you can do.

Answer 4

Buffets.

And going offline.

And a couple of other things too.

It is not that I am totally out of my own control in these matters. It is just that I recognise these weaknesses and sometimes have to fight my urges.

For instance, I don't know why I am answering questions right now when I have correspondence and work to deal with. And a good book I started yesterday and is waiting to be read. ("The Russian Debutante's Handbook", a novel by Gary Shteyngart.)

Answer 5

Perfectionism.
I try to do things perfectly and I want things to be just so. Things have a way of doing what they want. It's just so hard to expect a perfect outcome and be blasted into reality.
Some people have told me that I have to be a little more Zen about my approach to life and believe me I don't have the perfect house and I am a bit lazy at times.
I just so much want for things to be smooth that I fret sometimes when they don't go smoothly.
I am working on this but it's hard when you are in an industry that relies and stresses on placement,display,model customer service and being well groomed.

Answer 6

I'm a whole bag of weaknesses tied together with string.
Probably my worst is the "live today" mentality that gets me a lot of instant small material and sensual pleasures but robs me of the ability to plan properly for the future. Also, being a pressure-junkie - I can't seem to motivate myself unless the deadline for something is near.

Answer 7

My greatest weakness is probably fear of failure. I don't like losing and sometimes ruminate too much about it. But, I do realize failure sometimes has more advantages than success. Often times, with failure you can learn more from your mistakes...in success..one tends to glaze over weaknesses.

Also, perfectionism used to be my major weakness. I now accept that not all things can be perfect, but its still tough for me. You can only try your best at anything you do. And if you give it full effort, you have nothing to be ashamed of.

Answer 8

Being stubborn, occasionally this trait can be advantageous, but most times it is a liability. Easiest way to explain it away is that it was inherited from the Pennsylvania Dutch part of me, as they are often called 'stubborn Dutchmen.'

Answer 9

My greatest weakness is supposed to be my greatest strength.

My sister once told me to turn my greatest weaknesses into my greatest strengths and my perception of myself has never been the same since.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

Drop dead gorgeous women.

They should not be a weakness, but I loose all train of thought when confronted by one.

And I hate that feeling I get when my tongue is dragging on the hot sand.