Individuality - Good, Bad, Ugly?

[Skitz0]

A simple question to ask yourself that can be elaborated into many forms of sociological analysis or simply vague assumptions is this:
Are the traits that make me a unique individual positive or negative?

Before reading on, lets set aside the continuous and discrete debate on uniqueness and individuality.

What truly makes you unique and an individual among your peers?
Everyone has small to large traits that certainly make them different, above the obvious physical properties.

So sit back and take a moment to really think of some of your more unique characteristics. It's like what they'd ask on a job application when they want to know how you'll stand out among the other co-workers.
What characteristics do you feel make you unique?

What comes to mind first? The good or the bad?
Or do you dwell more on physical attributes, for instance if you think you're ugly or fat or too skinny?
What came to your mind when reading this?

I'll admit I usually think of my own faults before my own positives.
The days that I can see my more positive unique qualities are the days that I find myself being the most productive in general.

When you can distinguish yourself among your peers, you're recognizing qualities in yourself that can be worked on or utilised. But depending on what goes on in your head when asking this question, that can also help you realize even more about yourself.

For instance the person that would think first of physical characteristics before self-determination or creativity or something of that nature.
Again, we can make vague assumptions or some half-copped sociological analysis. But "we're" not the ones that count.

It's you.

So if asking that question helps you come to some conclusions or perhaps some epiphanies, then that's what matters.

Again. Lets leave out discussions on the true existence of uniqueness and individuality. That's for another day :)

[404]

When I think of individuality, I think in terms of optimistic proprieties, however, with that stated, it seems more of an aspect fault on my behalf. Consequently, in terms, while I find myself without the ability to perceive the circumstantial, I question the situation; I contemplate as if others’ were involved or considering as if there were other means in origin to my hypothetical conclusion.

An inventive is perceived not by individuality alone, but by a structure of formulations, yet the only form of individualism could be in conclusion to the formulation, still, this does not sustain an individual thought, thus the conclusion is in itself a system of thoughts without any form of individuality.

In layman’s terms: your notions are merely socially systematic, a building block of information derived from all points.

For individualism to have purpose it could only derive from a point without methodical pattern. Hence, it is a contradiction. Patterns are prearranged by the individual: making this the only form of individualism to the individual; the way you perceive from within a systematic structure does not proclaim individualism.

[404]

Without ignoring “Aesthetics” as an alternative to the evidential or collectivism in terms to creativity, you have an opposing regard to my prior topic. Creativity, is it individuality or is it not fostered but only by mere pattern perception?

Materialism? No, this is not where I am trying to generalize in terms to the individual. Materialism, at its simpler level, involves the focus on material "things" as opposed to that which is spiritual or intellectual in nature.

Owen Barfield alleged “individuality” is not merely faded sense; it is a vital cognitive faculty which links the human mind directly to the ever-evolving Logos. It is the link, as Goethe so well demonstrated, by means of which human consciousness can itself evolve upward towards a deeper cognitive conception of the divine creative forces that are at work everywhere in nature.

Monism (Greek monos, "single"), in philosophy, is a doctrine that ultimate reality is entirely of one substance. Interesting but laid bare many times over.

In terms, my presumptions are limited to these idea’s and it would take more deduction on my behalf. Maybe an essay, being it would be the better alternative to this post. I need to read more on this due to my wide margin of thoughts on this. I have simply never thought about individualism on these conditions or in simple situation to the questions.

[Rage Against Right]

I was talking about individuality to a friend not long ago and she told me that i try to be individual and different from everyone else and it made me reflect on my actions because i didn't think i tryed to act differently it was just who i am. I am all for indivuality but i'm not sure if everyones traits are positive, but maybe its just the actions of their traits that can be negetive or positve?