I'm like this - my knee jerk thoughts are often quite arrogant (for example, reading a story about someone smart or attractive and immediately judging myself smarter or more attractive).

Sidenote: For most of my life I've managed to combine this over-arrogance with an outward under-confidence, which sucked.

Same here

Palo Alto (it might technically be EPA)

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