When I read today’s question I immediately had an answer. A gut response, if you will. The more I thought about it though, the more I realized that gut reaction was wrong. Or it might be wrong.
Am I a good judge of character? No. No way. Or am I? I tried to think of an instance where I clearly misjudged someone. Either I thought a good person was a bad person, or a bad person was a good person, or any kind of error in judgement. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I can’t think of one. I can’t think of a single occasion when I completely misjudged someone. There are times when my perception might have been off a little. A good person with a negative trait, or vice versa. Overall though… I think I generally get things mostly right on the first try.
So is that a good thing or a bad thing? Neither, I guess. What this does point out is that I seem to lack self confidence in my judgements of people. I feel like this little exercise has just shown me that I should have a little more faith in myself.
Fat chance of that.
