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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some people are just very intense. Like I've only met my friend's BIL a handful of times. Maybe 10x? And he is clearly one of the most competitive people I've ever met. He once told me, in a kind of jokey way, that he was annoyed because his wife had made more TV appearances than he had in the most recent calendar year, and he liked to "win that one." They are both very accomplished and smart. But there was something so distasteful to me about competing with your own spouse about something pretty shallow (neither of them do TV for a living, they just get invited on news shows periodically to discuss their areas of expertise). He also brags on his kids a lot, but in a way that feels almost offensive, like it's an attack not just on my kids but on ALL other kids. He once told me that his daughter never gets cold because his wife at a high protein diet during pregnancy. It was so weird!

I also knew a woman for a while who didn't seem that competitive at first, but it would come out whenever she did something brag-worthy. Like she'd never say "I'm really excited about my new job!" She'd say "I hope all those suckers who didn't get this job don't hate me too much!" Or if she went on vacation somewhere cool, it was never "Wow, that place was great, I loved it" or even "you should go!" It was always "Haha, sucks to be stuck at home when I was hanging out in HAWAII on the BEACH." She'd say it in kind of a funny way, but after a while I realized that she was just really competitive and liked winning (and was an extremely graceless winner).

Those are the main signs for me -- constantly comparing yourself to others, constantly talking up your accomplishments, turning stuff that shouldn't be competitive into a competition, bragging, being aggressive.[/quote]

These are amazing descriptions and I know people like this and find them mean spirited and repellent. Spot on. [/quote]

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