How high a standard do you hold your self to?

[Lemur]

How educated/knowledgeable/wise do you expect yourself to be? Do you wince when people say naive things that remind you of beliefs you had at one point?

I expect myself to be as educated and knowledgeable as possible, but I'm quick to admit when I have no idea, or when my information may be sketchy/incomplete. Long ago I learned that admitting what you don't know makes you appear far smarter than you really are. As for wincing, it really depends. Honest ignorance is nothing to get weird about. We're all ignorant in our own ways. But deliberate obtuseness is a different matter.

How self disciplined, healthy, virtuous in general?

Extremely. My personal philosophy, for what it's worth: Be hard on yourself, but forgiving of others. Be conservative in personal practices, but liberal in what you accept from others. Hold yourself to high standards, but never have unrealistic expectations of your family and friends.

Do you generally feel like you should be better or are you happy just the way you are, and why?

I could always be better. Who couldn't? It's a minute-by-minute, day-by-day thing. One of my favorite musicians had a great line: "At every moment you are presented with opportunities to make your music worse." Same applies to life. Sometimes not making things worse is the best possible aspiration. Depends on the situation.

[Megas Methuselah]

I am so hot.

[Samurai Waki]

Some would say too high.

[Fragony]

I am actually pretty well educated but I usually can't stand the well educated. I don't hold my self to a very high standard, be nice towards others that's all.

[KukriKhan]

Be hard on yourself, but forgiving of others. Be conservative in personal practices, but liberal in what you accept from others. Hold yourself to high standards, but never have unrealistic expectations of your family and friends.

That's about it.

I flatter myself that I can predict with approximately 66% certainty what x person will do in situation z, after a conversation with Mr. X. Which is about the same success rate as my picks percentage for american football games. This after nearly 60 years breathing air. I'm not rich on my football picks, nor lauded for my advice to Mr X. So I obviously have still, much to learn. And I chide myself for not seeing what should have been obvious, whilst forgiving my friends who suffer the same affliction.

Do you generally feel like you should be better or are you happy just the way you are, and why?

I should be better, because I'v been around so long. It's a shame I wasted so much time sorting out some of the details of my life. Lesson: I should have asked for help. It was available, I just didn't know how to swallow my pride, admit my humanity, and ask.

[SwordsMaster]

That's about it.

I flatter myself that I can predict with approximately 66% certainty what x person will do in situation z, after a conversation with Mr. X. Which is about the same success rate as my picks percentage for american football games. This after nearly 60 years breathing air. I'm not rich on my football picks, nor lauded for my advice to Mr X. So I obviously have still, much to learn. And I chide myself for not seeing what should have been obvious, whilst forgiving my friends who suffer the same affliction.

What about a conversation with Mr. T? How would that change a man?