hahaha thanks Lukie

I'm an analyst at heart. For some reason, I love knowing things, analyzing them, and being able to correctly predict outcomes or act on the results. I love to read (I average at least several hours everyday), and I have a great memory. I also get bored easily, and this provokes me to learn new subjects. I'm pretty much the quintessential intellectual. There's just something great about learning and figuring shit out

I know some of this has to do with my genes (my father loves trivia type of thing), but I speculate that a lot of has to do with believing in things that really screwed my life up. I was raised super fundamentalist, and I believed the dumbest shit possible. It wasn't until I had easy access to data and rational discussion (internet) that I began to learn how stupidly wrong I was on so many things. I then began to research critical thinking, and understanding basics about logical principles and how to research subjects makes one sound smarter than they actually are IMO

Also, people hate being wrong. We all know this; we all absolutely hate it when we're wrong, but most of us are pros at engaging in things like cognitive and confirmation biases, and we then unwittingly brush our wrongness aside. But personally, I'm really bad at that. I definitely do it in certain areas, but for the most part, I KNOW when I'm wrong, and I HATE it because it's always sitting int he back of my mind saying YOURE WRONG STOP LYING TO YOURSELF YOURE WRONG STOP LYING TO YOURSELF. And so I tend to espouse a certain degree of personal candor that drives me to be intellectually honest with myself, and this then makes it difficult for me to espouse positions that I know to be wrong. This, overall, drives me to try to understand things

I'm probably sounding really pompous right now but so what that's how u get the gurls.