Everyone who knows me knows well my penchant for creating sometimes very absurd ranked lists. While I think it allows me to provide some structure to a concept I'm explaining, an opinion I'm sharing, or a thing I'm observing, I recognize it sometimes backfires...
It can provoke an engaging discussion, but it can also incite anger. Despite being meant to convey some sort of order, I often have a lot of "#3s in the world" which thus causes some credibility challenges. Just imagine what happens with my friends who spend a lot of time with me and hear all the "#1 bests" that they hear. Of course, our opinions and rankings should evolve over time as new information is added, right?
Nonetheless, they usually remain my friends, revel in the amusement my rankings provide laughing both at and with me, and even rely on the rankings as at least one source of information about a topic.
I mean, hey, in order to conjure up a ranking system for the "best looking outdoor cafe chairs," I had to at least give it some thought -- probably more thought than most of the people willing to hear me express the view.
Here on this blog, I will catalogue my rankings for your amusement and for your information. And in my continued effort to become a better person through enhanced self-awareness, it will be interesting for me to note the trend in blog entries that do not include rankings. And please permit me to change the rankings as new sources of information are processed, new criteria are added and new experiences absorbed.
Enjoy!
1 comment:
For those of you who don't know - Scottie doesn't have (or maybe it just isn't publicized) a rank lower than 3. That said if you are really keeping score, which it looks like Scottie is, there is a lot of overlap - so this blog should be very interesting.
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