Daily Archives: 11/9/2006
How to be interesting
As an individual with varying degrees of inner security, I can’t help but consider the idea from time to time that I’m frightfully boring. I suppose that most people with an ounce of introspection consider this possibility from time to time, but as a blogger you have quantitative evidence about just how interesting you are. You can look at the number of people who come to your site, who post comments, who spend less than thirty seconds at your site, or any of a number of quantitative measures. It’s a bit humbling at time. In moments of deeper insecurity, I consider the idea that I could do more to be of greater interest to a larger collection of people.
Such feelings usually last about a day, and then my insecurity passes, and I continue on in precisely the way that I have, doing what I always wanted to do.
That being said, Russell Davies had a nice article with some ways to increase the likelihood that someone will find you interesting. Given that I think that the majority of them are less about tricking people into believing you are interesting and more about actually developing interesting traits, I recommend it as reading.