John Green said "Imagine others complexly." I love that. We defy stereotype and categories. We ooze over lines. We are complicated creatures difficult to define.
Unfortunately, we love to understand and to do that we often simplify and categorize.
It is true that there are similarities between people, but I do not ever want to minimize a person to a title.
However, Socrates said "The unexamined life is not worth living." And I agree with that. Seek to understand yourself, and all that surrounds you, but seek to understand it in all of its complex beauty.
I suggest, that rather than answering questions to receive a title, we answer questions to discover the answers. So here are some questions I suggest you ask yourself if you want to understand yourself better. These are just a start to give you the idea, come up with your own questions.
- What do I enjoy doing and why?
- What makes me happy and why?
- What makes me stressed/ anxious/ nervous/ afraid and why?
- What makes me sad and why?
- What makes me angry and why?
- What do I think I'm good at?
- What do other people think I'm good at?
- What do I find very difficult to do well?
- What sorts of thing confuse me? How? Why?
- What energizes me?
- What time of day do I feel at my best?
- Do I enjoy being with a lot of people more, or by myself, or with just a few people? Why? Which one gives me energy? Is the answer different in different situations?
- In what circumstances do I learn easiest? Is it different with different things?
- Do I learn slowly or quick? Is it different with different things?
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