I’m generally biased against someone trying to describe traits of a certain class of people because it’s so easy to think you’re getting more than you are (horoscopes, for example). And starting to read the article, I thought that of a couple lines—most people I know, people who are definitely not nerds, are fierce in their element, and reserved otherwise. Some lines also stood out to me as just the right combination of self-deprecatory and self-empowering to make me want to believe them (Partly perhaps because they’re not emotionally mature enough to distance themselves from it...).
That said, the rest of it started to be specific enough to convince me. I’m more (openly, at least) confident than my friends, I lose a lot more steam working around archaic rules than my classmates (although that might just be a difference in exposure), I think I work on more unorthodox things than people I know, and I definitely laugh a lot more than other people. My first thoughts still stand, but I think it’s a good article.
I’m generally biased against someone trying to describe traits of a certain class of people because it’s so easy to think you’re getting more than you are (horoscopes, for example). And starting to read the article, I thought that of a couple lines—most people I know, people who are definitely not nerds, are fierce in their element, and reserved otherwise. Some lines also stood out to me as just the right combination of self-deprecatory and self-empowering to make me want to believe them (Partly perhaps because they’re not emotionally mature enough to distance themselves from it...).
That said, the rest of it started to be specific enough to convince me. I’m more (openly, at least) confident than my friends, I lose a lot more steam working around archaic rules than my classmates (although that might just be a difference in exposure), I think I work on more unorthodox things than people I know, and I definitely laugh a lot more than other people. My first thoughts still stand, but I think it’s a good article.