Same things, different reasons
Feb.14, 2006, filed under Miscellany
In my travels I came across this thing called a Johari window.
I’m not usually one for taking personality tests because, more often than not, I struggle to find the right option to answer the question in a way I think is appropriate. I also struggle to identify traits in myself that I think are recognised by other people – so many people tell me I’m nice, or sympathetic or… whatever. I don’t recognise these things. When I was attending job interviews recently and the interviewers were asking me about my strengths and weaknesses, I found myself having to tell them what I figured they wanted to hear. What I consider to be my strengths and weaknesses are not things one necessarily wishes to admit to in a job interview out here in the Really Real World.
Munky keeps telling me I do the same things as everyone else but for completely different reasons. Trust me. I don’t remember just how you like your tea and make it as close to your ideal as possible because I actually care about your preferences.
Anyway. I’ve got my own Johari window now. And you can help me discover more about how I appear to others, so that if I have to attend interviews in future, I’m better equipped to pretend to be closer to the middle of the bell curve than I actually am.
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Singularity
~something that is singular as (a) a separate unit, or (b) unusual or distinctive manner or behavior; PECULIARITY;
~the quality or state of being singular;
~a point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists;
~a point or region of infinite mass density at which space and time are infinitely distorted by gravitational forces and which is held to be the final state of matter falling into a black hole. Sight
