Mentalechoes

It never ceases to amaze me how our own self image, and the external image the world sees, can be so at odds. Friday last week I was out at a tree hugging day for work when during one of the group sessions someone called me an “alpha male”, and said I should go first at the kind of dangerous Segway activity. I was pretty surprised to be called an alpha male, because I’ve never thought of myself as an alpha male ever before in my life. I’ve known some alpha males, and I’m pretty sure I don’t classify as one when I compare myself to them as benchmarks. The image I’ve always had of myself is something far away from being an alpha male, and I think that comes out in the way I act. So I wonder what it was that this person saw that made him think, I was an alpha male? I often wonder now, just what it is, that the rest of the world sees when they see me, and how different it must be to what I see in the mirror every morning.

Andy.

Tags: Alpha, male