What kind of people challenge you?

[great_bay]

There is at least one. I work with him.

Coriolis, do you go around and challenge people to a math debate contest to see who is the smartest?

 

[Coriolis]

Coriolis, do you go around and challenge people to a math debate contest to see who is the smartest?

What do you think?

 

[great_bay]

What do you think?

Uhh No.

 

[Coriolis]

Uhh No.

There. You answered your own question. See - even you are smarter than you think.

 

[great_bay]

There. You answered your own question. See - even you are smarter than you think.

Coriolis, do you ever think I will be as smart as you one day?

 

[RedAmazoneFriendZone]

I used to challenge and provoke people to make them understand freedom, to get their mind opened. I have failed many times because I was forceful and aggressive.

Today I have changed and I have developed other qualities. I'm challenging people with a kind heart, tolerant, who can listen carefully and care about my needs as well as theirs.

Because I can also learn from them. So it is a kind of give and receive. Fairplay challenge to me

 

[chubber]

That kind of challenge would be ExTJs. I appreciate them both equally.

 

[cosmic royal]

People who consistently ask for attention and use guilt-tripping to get their way.

 

[Coriolis]

Coriolis, do you ever think I will be as smart as you one day?

Insufficient data for me even to speculate.

 

[gjvand09]

People who despite having gone through a lot of negative experiences, still manage to keep it together. Or people who keep their cool under a lot of pressure.

 

[ThaumaturgicTheorist]

I tend to run like hell from challenges and challenging people - and I doubt I've ever challenged anyone.

Closest I ever came was hanging out with smart people online. It was good for me, but never again.


In more general terms of "challenging to deal with" - that would be your super-outgoing types who are really eager to be friends. Please leave me alone...please?

 

[RedAmazoneFriendZone]

Oh I forgot...People who invent stories to make me laugh. And if they do it with me they generally know it will work.

I used to be angry with such a behaviour for the sake of truth. Today I have changed a lot on that point, I think if someone uses his own/her own imagination to make me laugh it is a gift.

 

[Kas]

People who are smarter than me, more brave, more advanturous, more talented, know what they want (any of these or others). I become friends often with people who challenge me. They motivate me and make my life more interesting.

 

[miss fortune]

those who can move mentally and physically faster than I do when things go wrong... it's fantastic!

 

[Mustafa]

Authorities.

 

[laterlazer]

Honestly, no one cos I don't let them. I'm kind of averse to taking on challenges from people. I think I have a belief that I can challenge myself when I want so I don't need anyone to do it for me, but tbh idk if that's true.

 

[LovecraftianMonstrosity]

People that are very disciplined toward a goal that requires taxing effort for long periods of time. I am thinking in particular of Andrew Wiles who in my estimation was transformed by the process of solving Fermat's Last Theorem.

 

[Yama]

the people who tell me to do things i don't wanna do and force me to face reality instead of run from it

 

[Ghost of the dead horse]

Nitpickers.

 

[Schrödinger's Name]

(Anyone who tests my patience)

Okay, just kidding (or maybe not). Mostly upping this thread because I think it's interesting to read other people's responses but I can't come up with a proper answer/example (yet).