EXERCISE: Dilbert says . . .

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Original posting 10 February 2008

Leaving out some of the jokes, Dilbert had a couple of amusing suggestions for an exercise. So, here's the two parts:

1. How would other people describe you?
2. You have thirty minutes to give yourself a label that will haunt you for the rest of your life

(actually, I think that may be the description of the whole Dogbert Personality Predictor Index, which judges career potential so that you can be placed in the dead end job that most closely matches your lack of potential - I'm pretty certain I took that test a few times, and consistently flunked out by being an overachiever :-)

Anyway, your task, should you choose to accept it, is to provide two small items. Start out by picking a character. It may be one you are working on, one in a favorite story, or it could even be yourself, of course. Then . . . the two items!

First, a short scene, paragraph, or whatever about how other people describe the character (you or a fictional surrogate, we'll take either one). Second, boil that down into a short label.

'saright? Take a character, show us how other people think about them, and include the label that those others are likely to use.

Go ahead, write.
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