Ningas Cugon, do Foreigners exhibit such attitude?

[Secular State of the Philippines]

Ningas (K)Cogon is the attitude when we start something with interest and enthusiasm, then after a very short time, we lose interest and stop whatever it is we are doing. Leaving things incomplete. Just like a wild fire burning out quickly.

This sort of trait is notable to Filipinos (Philippines) which I do wonder if it too exists outside of the Philippines. If it does, is it as rampant that might be considered as a passive-cardinal trait?

eg. You eagerly, enthusiatically agreed to do a certain project, you spent most of your attention on it but suddenly, out of nowhere, you lost all interest and left it incomplete or unattended.

[The Princes of the Universe]

Are we talking something else catching one's attention suddenly or merely losing all interest in it?

[Rusozak]

Sounds like my life in a nutshell. I AM HALFMAN.

[Secular State of the Philippines]

Are we talking something else catching one's attention suddenly or merely losing all interest in it?

Something like giving too much attention to something then in short time, completely or slowly loses interest. Like you leave your things incomplete after spending too much time on it.

[Cenetra]

Are we talking something else catching one's attention suddenly or merely losing all interest in it?

Something like giving too much attention to something then in short time, completely or slowly loses interest. Like you leave your things incomplete after spending too much time on it.

Sounds like my entire life.

This attitude is definitely known in 'Murica, but I'm not sure there's any specific phrase for it in English. Maybe "burnout" would be close, but it still isn't that close a description.

[Secular State of the Philippines]

Gear em?

eh?

[USS Monitor]

It definitely is not just Filipinos. It happens to me once in a while, and I've met some people who do it quite often.

I used to have a boyfriend that would get super-excited every time he got a new job or had a new idea for some career he wanted to pursue. Every time, THIS was the job/idea that was going to get him out of poverty, it was the greatest thing that ever happened to him, etc., etc. -- and then 6 months later he'd be furious about how his boss was fucking him over, they were asking too much of him, it was the worst job ever, they had too much bureaucracy to get the certifications he needed, some class he was supposed to take was too hard, blah, blah, blah. When I met him, he was training to be an electrician, but he never got his certification, and I think something happened to his tools, and he never got back to it. One time he said he was going to go into professional boxing, but I think that time he just realized he was a bit old to be just starting his career and it would be a lot of work to do the training.

[Kubra]

unless one can find structural reasons for it to be so, chances are it ain't specific to a particular society
either it is not, or this is the limits of my imagination.

[Secular State of the Philippines]

unless one can find structural reasons for it to be so, chances are it ain't specific to a particular society
either it is not, or this is the limits of my imagination.

currently looking for one

[L Ron Cupboard]

I wish I found it easier to do. I often end up doggedly ploughing through a book, or a film or TV series, that I have started simply because I feel compelled to complete it once I have started it. Letting things go can be a good thing.

[Lydenburg]

Funny, I never associated this trait with Filipinos. And I've worked with, supervised, even lodged with them over the course of my career. Never had any problems keeping them on focus.

They're OK workers - not lazy like some people would like to think. They're just not as humourless on the job as most Westerners and don't mind having a wee bit of fun on the side. You can't stifle that attitude, not even among Filipinos in the most authoritarian states in the world like Saudi Arabia.

[USS Monitor]

Funny, I never associated this trait with Filipinos. And I've worked with, supervised, even lodged with them over the course of my career. Never had any problems keeping them on focus.

They're OK workers - not lazy like some people would like to think. They're just not as humourless on the job as most Westerners and don't mind having a wee bit of fun on the side. You can't stifle that attitude, not even among Filipinos in the most authoritarian states in the world like Saudi Arabia.

That's why authoritarianism doesn't work, because some people just can't/won't fall in line no matter how hard you push.

[Pope Joan]

Supposedly, US twentysomethings consider themselves "socially concerned" and "politically engaged" because they answer yes-no polls on the internet.

Or they click their support for some irate letter or petition.

To me, that qualified as such an attitude as the one in the Philippines.

We used to call such people "dilettantes".

[Eol Sha]

What is a passive-cardinal trait?

[Pope Joan]

What is a passive-cardinal trait?

Covering up a priestly sex abuse scandal?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... clave.html

[Mefpan]

You don't want to know how many half-baked abandoned third-rate storylets litter my HDD and how many unpainted miniatures await color-coating.

[Luziyca]

I tend to start things like puppets for NS with a lot of enthusiasm, then it dies out.

[Rusozak]

I tend to start things like puppets for NS with a lot of enthusiasm, then it dies out.

Same. I remember when the system was changed to allow the names of long dead small nations to be reused, I grabbed as many real life nation names as I could for puppets, then abandoned them several weeks later...

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

I think we all go through those. Hobbies or topics that really interest us, we delve deep into them and eventually lose interest. It's called ''a momentary fad''. Of course, some of those momentary fads can translate into long-time hobbies too.

[The United Colonies of Earth]

Yeah. I don't think of it as anyone's thing, unless they really do it.

[Luziyca]

I tend to start things like puppets for NS with a lot of enthusiasm, then it dies out.

Same. I remember when the system was changed to allow the names of long dead small nations to be reused, I grabbed as many real life nation names as I could for puppets, then abandoned them several weeks later...

Yeah.

It's mainly RP ideas: ooh... I can start a new colony/nation! *spends a long time writing history, then abandons it out of interest*