I read this
statement online recently: “People vastly
overestimate how interesting they are.”
It made me
laugh. I laughed, in part, because I
think it’s an amusing observation.
However, I also found
it amusing because I want to believe I am interesting. But if people tend to overestimate how
interesting they are then I’m probably not as interesting as I think I am.
In fact, I believed
that even my very thoughts at the moment—thoughts about whether or not I was
interesting—were fairly interesting. But
they probably were not that interesting because it is likely I was
overestimating how interesting these thoughts were.
Then, it occurred to
me, “I should share these observations in a post, even though the post will
probably not be as interesting as I am hoping it will be, considering how we
vastly overestimate these matters.”
This is the
resulting post. Fascinating, huh?
