You have never seen your own face exactly as everyone else sees it.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Mirrors reverse you and photographs flatten you, so the face everyone else knows is one you have never directly met. It is a small, strange fact and it points at something larger, that the version of you that exists in the world is not identical to the one you have access to.

Rather than finding this unsettling, let it take some pressure off. The exact impression you make is not yours to control or fully see. You can be responsible for how you treat people and let the rest of it be something that happens outside your view.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

How do you come across to people who have only just met you?

MORE IN PERCEPTION & ATTENTION

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.