![]() I think because the arenas I meet a majority of people in are far removed from contexts where my nerd properties are more on display, and I’ve definitely learned to dress a bit less nerdy than I used to a number of years ago. Okay okay, the people who’ve known me at least 10 years will be laughing at this, but to my own surprise, people react in shock when I tell them I’m a massive nerd. Whenever anyone says “no you’re not”, I usually point them to the fact I live in a forest by myself. ![]() Introverted in the sense that I recharge when I’m away from people, not with them, or only when I’m with very particular types of people. I’ll organise events out and about and I regularly find myself as wanting to spend most of my nights out with others.Īnd so it seems to be a great contradiction that I’m actually very much introverted. I’m a people person and usually pretty out there. This one constantly comes as a surprise to people. Here are 10 things people don’t usually know about me. So I thought it’d be a bit of fun to write about a few of those things that I regularly find people surprised to discover about me, or things they may not know. Everyone experiences things differently, and even people you’ve shared common experiences with will not necessarily remember how those experiences were to you. I guess all of us are full of years and years that if you weren’t around for, you would never know about. Several people have also made those sort of comments about me recently. In fact, one of my favourite questions now is to ask someone, “Tell me something I wouldn’t know about you”. I find it fascinating if I ask people the right questions, or have someone else around to ask different questions, how many times I find myself saying, “I never knew that about you”. Jobs I never knew they had, fears I didn’t know they carried, issues they had faced in their families. Isn’t it amazing how long you can know someone and they can still surprise you? I remember catching up with some people last week I had known for several years, and finding out things I never knew about them. Taken from a friend’s wedding I was MC’ing at
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