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Chapter 1: What is self-discovery and why is it important?
I've been on this planet for 24 years now, and I've spent majority of those 24 years soul-searching and discovering who I really am. And I'm proud to say that at this point, I think I have a pretty strong sense of self. However, I'm of the belief that there's always more to learn and there's always more to discover.
And so today, I thought it'd be productive to sit down and take some unreliable personality quizzes that I found online to learn a little bit more about myself. I don't know, like I feel comfortable with how I perceive myself. I know who I think I am, but online quizzes are gonna tell me who I really am.
So today I'm gonna be taking some random online personality quizzes, starting out with a quiz that's going to tell me if I'm annoying or not. Now, before I even begin this quiz, I will say I'm not not annoying. Like, like if the results come back at the end of this and the results are that I am annoying, I'm going to be like, all right, I could have predicted that.
I definitely used to be more annoying when I was younger. Like when I was a teenager, I was so hyper and outgoing and loud and brash. And luckily for me and for everyone around me, I've settled down a lot in my older age. But there's still some lingering annoying qualities. So again, I'm going into this expecting it to tell me that I'm moderately annoying. But we won't know until we take the quiz.
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I'm totally quiet when I walk. Well, according to my downstairs neighbors, when I was a teenager living in an apartment with my mom, my footsteps can be pretty loud. I used to get the cops called on me for how loud I would walk across my apartment. I personally blame that noise on the lack of insulation in the apartment I grew up in.
Like that building was old and there was no soundproofing happening. You know what I mean? So like, I actually don't think I'm that loud of a walker. I think the building had no insulation and it was creaky and squeaky. And every time you'd move... there was rattling and like, I don't think it was my fault, but I'm going to consider my old downstairs neighbor's opinion and answer.
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Chapter 2: How can personality tests help in self-discovery?
I'd rather like guide the conversation based on the other person and what they seem to be excited to talk about and then find, you know, personal stories or things to bring up within that. I tend to let other people guide the conversation because I am very outgoing and I have a lot to talk about. I can talk about anything. And not everybody feels that way.
So I'd almost rather let other people guide the conversation and not make it all about me and my accomplishments. So I'm going to say almost never. If anything, my friends bring up my accomplishments for me. That is absolutely true. Okay, moving on. Think fast. It's your turn to order a smoothie. Yum. What do you say?
Well, I'm probably going to say, can I have a raspberry banana vanilla protein powder vanilla yogurt smoothie? Because that's the smoothie that I get at the smoothie place that I go to in LA and the smoothie I make almost every day for myself at home. Okay. The options are, I want a smoothie. Can I get a smoothie? May I get a smoothie? Or may I get a smoothie, please?
You know, I'm going to be honest. I think I'd probably say, may I get a smoothie? And I wouldn't put please. I'm being honest. And it's actually weirdly because I feel like saying please feels condescending. Like, I know that saying please is like the most polite thing to say, but I actually feel like saying, may I get a smoothie, please? Like, I don't know. It sounds weird. Whereas saying...
Hi, may I get a smoothie? Like, that feels nicer than, hey, may I get a smoothie, please? Like, the please feels weirdly backhanded. I can't explain it. So my intentions are good. That's my answer.
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Okay, how often do you hold the door for people behind you? Always, 100% of the time, without fail. I am the type of person that will hold the door even if somebody's literally, I'm not kidding, at the other side of a building. I'm like, baby, I'm waiting, I'm waiting. Unless I can't tell what they're doing and I feel like it'll make them uncomfortable if I keep the door open.
I'm pretty good about that. All right, next. Your friend just texted you. When do you reply? It depends on the friend. It definitely depends on the friend. If it's like one of my best friends, I'm responding as soon as possible, like immediately. If it's a friend that I don't talk to very often, like we chat once a month, once every few months,
That might take a bit longer just because usually those texts are longer, more extensive. And it's like, you know what I mean? I don't know. It's like it's more of a more of an emotional upheaval to respond. It's not like I can just do a one sentence response. Usually that requires like a paragraph response. And that just takes me more time.
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Chapter 3: Am I annoying? Exploring self-perception through quizzes
Based on your results, it sounds like annoying is not a word that most people would use to describe you. We bet that you're great at reading the room, have no trouble adjusting to new social scenes, and generally like to make sure that people like you. On the off chance that you don't vibe well with someone, it doesn't really bother you. Who cares what other people think anyway?
I do not like when people don't like me, but I can handle it. So that last part, I don't know. But this is great news. I actually agree. I don't think I'm that annoying anymore. I think I used to be annoying when I was younger. Actually, I know I was annoying when I was younger. I think I'm occasionally kind of annoying, maybe occasionally.
Like my sense of humor can sometimes not align with everybody. But I'd say for the most part, I'm not that annoying anymore. And I don't know if that's like conceited to say, but listen, it's a relief. But I can admit that I was at one point in my life annoying. You know what I mean? Well, that was sort of reassuring. I'm feeling really confident.
This next quiz might make me feel worse depending on the results because this next quiz is high stakes. Am I a bad person? Being annoying is like no big deal. Being a bad person is not good. So let's find out. Okay, question one. You find a misplaced wallet on the street. What do you do? I will never take advantage of somebody else's misfortune.
If somebody drops their wallet, I'm happy that I'm the one who found it because I know I will do the right thing. I will try to find the owner myself or try to find the nearest police station or something that I can drop it off on. I would say I'd probably, I'd probably turn it into the nearest shop or to the police and let them handle it.
Just because I do have a little bit of anxiety about being baited, which is so stupid. But like, no, it's not actually stupid. It's a little irrational. But like, I would be afraid that, I don't know, somebody would have like left their wallet on the ground as like a trap to like kidnap me. Like if I call the number in there, then they kidnap me. Like that's how my brain works.
So I'd rather drop it off to the police and let them handle it. What they would do with it, I don't know. But it's like, you know, technically this is kind of more so their job than mine. And they have the training to handle sort of random personalities. So I would say I would turn it into the police and let them handle it.
All right, the stranger on the bench next to you starts crying out of nowhere. You, number one, gently ask if there's anything you can do, get up and leave, offer them a tissue, or leave them be. I will say, if I'm crying on a bench, chances are I don't want anyone to talk to me. That's just who I am. However, I think I would wait it out for a minute, try to analyze their situation.
You know, if they cry for a second and then they feel better, maybe I would sort of back off and let them be like they sorted it out on their own. But if they were profusely crying, if they were not letting up, I would say I would gently ask if there's anything I can do. Yeah. See, but that kind of scared, like, yeah, that's what I would do. You know what?
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Chapter 4: How do I handle criticism and feedback?
And I think my deep attachments to these items have almost made them feel real to me in a weird way. And I definitely do sometimes feel bad for them. Yeah, like I feel sort of like a connection to them that almost feels like, oh, this is like a living thing. So yeah, I'm going to say sometimes. Next. Hey, can we see your phone's camera roll? Honestly? Okay, there are three options.
Option one, okay, I have nothing to hide. Option two, yeah, just one second. Let me delete a few things. Option three, never in a million years. Listen, I don't love people looking through my camera roll. However, I don't have anything that bad in there. Like I don't have any like sexy nudes. I actually don't. That's not a joke. And I don't even have like calculator app downloaded.
I just don't take nudes ever. I never take a nude. Isn't that weird? Is that weird of me? I just don't need that on my phone. That's so stressful. Like if somebody, if I want to see myself nude, I'll take my clothes off. If somebody else wants to see me nude, they can take my clothes off. Like I don't need to have a photo of me nude. I just don't want that.
Like it's stressful if it gets leaked or like if something happened, like I just don't need that in my phone. But also I don't like taking photos, like sexy photos. Yeah. There are some photos in my camera roll where I am not nude, but like where like any photos in my camera roll that have some sort of genitalia involved, it's only funny. But it's not even that graphic.
Like if it got leaked or something, it'd be like, okay, like there's like a nip slip. Like I had a nip slip. Like I'll give you an example of a recent photo in my camera roll that would be kind of embarrassing, but I wouldn't really care. I was in a pool recently, like a swimming pool. And I was like jumping around and flailing around and someone was taking a photo of me.
And then I looked back at the photos later and like my bathing suit had moved a little bit. My nipple was like barely out. But I'm like I look like a freak like flailing around in this pool and like my nipples out. It was just these are crazy photos. They're funny. They're funny. Do I want anyone to see that? No, I don't. But like worst case scenario, it would be all right.
Like it's not that vulnerable or mortifying. Like a nude, like a sexy nude. Like no thanks. If I had nudes in my camera roll, I would say I need to delete a few things. I'm going to say I have nothing to hide. I really don't. Listen, again, I don't like when people look through my photos.
Not that there's anything to hide, but just because like sometimes I take a selfie and I feel like I look cute or something. Like that's embarrassing. I don't want anyone to see that. But I'm not really hiding anything. All right, last question. When walking on the sidewalk, do you avoid the cracks? No, no. I just don't even think about that. So that's my answer. All right, my results.
I'm a little weird, it says. Let me read. If you ask us, you're one of the best kinds of weird. Why, okay, why are these quizzes complimenting me so much? I feel like I've set you all up to listen to me take these quizzes just to then compliment myself. Like it feels like a setup, but fine, I'll read it. If you ask us, you're one of the best kinds of weird.
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