An artist friend of mine, at the end of a long day of interviews with journalists, sat down with his last of the day and said, “Enough about me already…What do YOU think about me?” He was joking of course, playing the part of the narcissistic rock star, but I hear the truth in there somewhere too.  We’re never really as tired of hearing about ourselves as we might like to think.  Or, to avoid another “stop judging me” fiasco here I should say I’M never really as tired of hearing about me as I’d like to think – or like you to think.

Why else would I go to this website.  Going there felt a little like saying, “Enough about me.  What do YOU think about me, computer program thingy?”

After answering eleven pages of questions I knew what it thought about me.  The totality of my complex personality was reduced to a square of colored bits.

“It” thinks I’m an ”advocating thinker.” This, in plain English, means I feel your pain like Bill Clinton, talk too much like Bono, and think through everything like Stephen Hawking with less focus (a lot less).  Or, to spin it less positively, I’m a sucker with a big mouth and enough fear to keep me in the planning stages of everything forever.  Oh, and low self-esteem.  There’s that.

Shocker: Musicians have low self-esteem.  This apparently is why we strut around on stages with lights shining on us screaming poetry that really all says the same thing: “Notice me.”

But “it” thinks some good stuff about me too:

“You have insight into what others are thinking and feeling. This ability allows you to be happy for others, and to commiserate when something has gone wrong for them.

(Good I think)



You are highly compassionate, and being conscious of how things affect those close to you leaves you cautious about trusting others too hastily.

(Maybe not “highly” compassionate but… And, no, I don’t trust anyone.  That means you.)





But “it” doesn’t always get me right:

“…you are open-minded when it comes to your worldview; you don’t look to impose your ways on others.”

(My job is imposing “my” ways on others.  Save a kid.  Think.  Love.  I’m a professional imposer.)



“As someone who understands the complexities of the world around you, you are reluctant to pass judgments.”

(I’m interested in the complexities of the world.  Not sure I understand the, But even if I do, it’s bogus to assume that understanding such things to any degree would necessarily lead me to not judge those points of view against my own and my own against them.  A thinker who can’t judge isn’t thinking all that much.  See? That right there was a judgment.  Some ideas are better than others.  To believe that is to judge.)



“You like to be sure of yourself before voicing your opinion.”

(Nope.  I get sure of myself (an idea really) BY voicing an opinion, batting it around with others and it standing up to the scrutiny.  Then I voice it to a bigger audience and hope their as validating as the small one was.)





But “it” nailed me when it said…

“One of the reasons you enjoy conversation as much as you do is that you often learn about yourself while talking things out with a friend; you realize things about your own beliefs while discussing them with others.”





Yep.  That’s why I blog.  To “realize things.” About you.  About me.  About ideas.  About the world.

Enough about me.  What does “it” think about you?

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