Re: are we how we behave?

Posted by gepr on Mar 02, 2019; 1:13am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/are-we-how-we-behave-tp7592651p7592662.html

Exactly. The problem is that nobody's honest in their feedback. Friends are too forgiving. Enemies are too harsh. Frenemies make a nice balance. But their feedback is too tightly intertwined with their own opinion of themselves.

I wish God were a robot ... with a feedback channel impervious to DDOS.

On March 1, 2019 4:43:50 PM PST, Steven A Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:

>All this evokes my memory of a favorite "truism":
>
>    /I am who you think I think I am!/
>
>
>
>> Ha!  It's more likely that, "Every year, I edit out more details that
>may contradict my opinion of myself."
>>
>> On 3/1/19 2:49 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
>>> An elderly friend of ours used to say, somewhat ruefully, "every
>year I get more like myself."
>>>
>>> Keep fattening that tube, baby!

--
glen

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