Are you impulsive?

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Are you impulsive? Meaning do you sometimes act without really thinking? Like, you see something cool, you want to buy it right away? Or you hear about something cool going on, you want to go no matter what?

I must say, I recently started to realize that I am pretty impulsive. I do bunch of things without really thinking deeply about it first.

What about you? Share.

Sometimes I am.

very much so.

I’m a compulsive shopper buyer.

Everything I do is based on emotion.

Nope. I clearly knew I would respond this way

Unfortunately, i am only impulsive when it comes to things that are dangerous.

The older I get the less impulsive I get.

I am VERY impulsive. It's made me do bad things.

I'm very impulsive when it comes to boredom or downloading, or saving pictures from the internet. Sometime while I'm writing I'm impulsive. That's why I bounce from one thread to another commenting.

I chose 'sort of' as I can be impulsive sometimes, but not all the time.

Yes! I mean no.... um, hang on..... give me some time to think about it and I'll get back to you.

I'm too impulsive. 8(

Steve

I'm a strange combination of very impulsive yet very cautious... that sounds totally weird and contradictory, doesn't it? I mean I act on impulse, but I'm also always imagining worst-case scenarios and analyzing everything as a response to that, to make sure I don't do something dangerous or risky.

I think most of my "impulsiveness" comes from me living in a kind of eternal now. I don't have a sense of time; the past is a fog, I can't project myself into my "future life" (I can never answer those "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" kind of questions), so I'm always living in the present. I have no concept of saving money for something, if I want it I want it now, not later; but if I don't have the money now, I'll just spend what I do have on something else rather than save it up.

I eat when I'm hungry, drink when I'm thirsty, pretty much just do what I feel when I feel it, unless I choose to defer to another's needs, such as my husband or daughter, who are priorities in my life.

I waver back and forth between seeing this as a bad thing and seeing it as a good thing. I mean, actually, according to my spiritual path, there is a distinction between thoughtless impulsivity and aware spontaneity; I think I tend towards the latter rather than the former. This spontaneous-living-in-the-moment is actually considered a state of grace, something to work towards as a spiritual discipline. And I'm here naturally -- a blessing?

well i spent 1 000 dollars on ebay in about 30 min. i bought a wii, games, ds, games, ti-89, etc.

Hard to say, I am sort of, I suppose... maybe not so much though. Really though, I don't have as many problems with impulsive buying and more with emotional reactions. My impulsive side is rarer than my non-impulsive side I think so I put no considering most people have some impulsiveness.