Doubting self doubting self doubting self . . .

My more vocal critics charge me with a lack of self awareness of my many flaws. Sadly, this is probably true.

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Well, at least you're aware of your lack of awareness of your flaws. I'm unaware of my flaws, too, but I don't know about it. Or so I'm told.

Posted by Mike | March 26, 2008 6:03 PM

This study shouldn't be news to anybody who has taught. After nearly every final exam, I'd get visits from A students wondering how they could have done so well when they missed so much, and from D and F students unable to see how their disjointed ramblings differed in any important way from the model answer.

Posted by Alan Gunn | March 26, 2008 6:10 PM

This reminds me of the time when I got hit on the head by a heavy object falling out of a lift, and people kept asking me if I was all right. And I kept explaining back to them that this was a hopeless question as if I wasn't all right how would I know I wasn't?

Posted by Tracy W | March 26, 2008 7:38 PM

Can you comment on what they say these flaws are? I wish I had critics, I'm too boring I guess.

Posted by Dan T | March 26, 2008 10:51 PM

This resonates with me as well. When I was at achool I laways knew when a test mark would turn out well for me becasue I had this sense of imending doom after the test. If I felt good about the outcome I was inevitably in for a nasty surprise.

Of course once I recognised this I would start to feel reassured as soon as I felt the doom, and worried if I didn't. This made me horribly confused.

Posted by James K | March 27, 2008 12:27 AM