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What's it like for you when you meet someone who's like your dark side?

Asked by Jeruba (55824points) June 12th, 2017

Sooner or later we’re probably going to meet someone who has our own worst traits, only more so. They’re everything we dislike about ourselves, but magnified: more judgmental, lazier, more impulsive, more arrogant, more talkative, whatever.

It’s like seeing ourselves in a mirror that exaggerates our faults. Or even just one of them, but a big one.

When you meet someone like that, how does it affect you? Do you want to fix them, or outdo them, or fix yourself, or just run away? Or something else?

Tags as I wrote them: faults, shortcomings, self-knowledge, self-improvement, evil twin.

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