Saturday, August 2, 2014

This Is Pretty Fascinating... I Think... Maybe

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?



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