Swimmer963 comments on How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious - Less Wrong

113 Post author: Swimmer963 23 January 2012 11:50PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 23 January 2012 11:43:45AM 2 points [-]

From a pretty young age, I remember being able to distance myself from my immediate circumstances and imagine "which part of the story" I was in now.

If I'm a character in a story, I'm a minor side character in someone else's.

Comment author: Swimmer963 23 January 2012 12:39:17PM 1 point [-]

Whose story? Is their story interesting? Do you have a crucial role to play at some point, or are you mainly an observer?